Comments on: Getting The Right Domain Name

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:04:21 +0000

There are quite a few like that Phil, there’s a good list floating around on the Internet somewhere…

By: Phil Connolly

Phil Connolly — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:00:58 +0000

QI last week did a good thing on website names and how you need to think them through(think it might have been the BBC4 one that will be on BBC2 this week). One example was http://www.expertsexchange.com.

By: david

david — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:08 +0000

Name counts! And is getting harder to find good names as all the good ones are taken.

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:34:38 +0000

I’ll admit to making the mistake with bnb thinking it was obvious for bed and breakfasts. It’s not.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:24:49 +0000

Well it just proves my point. I assumed that no-one had registered http://www.soon2b50.com because it is just too complicated. So I googled it and it came up blank, but it did suggest http://www.soon2b3.com which is a blog for prospective adoptive parents. At least it was not for a business

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:20:16 +0000

Tell me about it. We are on the verge of moving over from a free blog for our business to a proper domain. The biggest learning point has been that the domain name has to be able to be written down without being spelled out letter by letter. “So that’s http://www.soon2b50.com - “soon” then the number “2″ then the letter “b” then “50″ - no, the number “fifty” - have you got that.
Hmmmm! I exaggerate slightly for effect but tell me is there a better website address than “B&Q’s” - diy.com. Imagine if they had tried to do “BandQ,com”. It doesn’t bear thinking about