Many clients contact me wondering if they should purchase additional domain names.
Here is an email from a recent scam (maybe you’ve seen it):
Dear CEO,
We are Asia Domain Name Registration Limited, which is the domain name registrar centre in Hongkong. We have something important need to confirm with your company.
On the April 16 2008, we received an application formally. One company named ” OMS Investment Corp” applied for
This a purely fear based email scam and should be sent to the spam folder.
This client has the domain wovenworkz.com and it is the only domain they need at this point. The above email suggests that a third party is interested in buying these other domain names. Let them.
Here is the secret tool to help you brainstorm a terrific domain name, fast.
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Video transcript:
So, all the great domain names in the world are gone, right? Wrong. I have a secret weapon here that I use called “instant domain search”. If you go to instantdomainsearch.com you will be presented with this page, and this allows you to type and immediately know whether a combination of words is available or not.
It is a fabulous tool. It allows you to brainstorm different domains very quickly and know if they are available or not.
Now, a couple of pointers before we get going here. One, make sure you get a dotcom domain. You might be tempted to getting a dot net or biz or us, but don’t do it.
People remember .com. They don’t remember anything else. Get your company name. That’s very important, and if you can’t get your company name then gets a name that is easy to remember and that’s related to the business you’re in. OK, let’s get started.
Let’s assume we have a company named Smith and Smith Accountants, and we are looking for a website address. We click in here, and we type in Smith and Smith Accountants. And guess what? In the little green bar you see that dotcom is available so smithandsmithaccountants.com is available.
Now, a little trick here is you can press control, hold the control key down, hit the,’s’ key and it will save that name under your little save searches box here.
The next thing I like to do is actually see if I can find a short domain name. I’ll probably end up reserving the company name, but I want to see if there is a short one available because that one is just a little too long for people to remember to type when they have to key in your email address.
It’s a lot of work, and we don’t have any time to do anything these days so let’s do our customers a favor.
OK, so how do we do a short one? How about an acronym, ssaccountants? Nope, I get a red box. Dotcom, it’s taken, all right. Let’s back it up. How about cpas? Or cpa? That’s taken. How about cpas? That’s taken as well.
How about we do a little trick here and add a dash which is the minus sign in there which you are allowed to do? And that doesn’t work. That’s taken. Let’s knock the,’s’ off and ss-cpa.com is taken. So, that doesn’t work. OK, fine.
Well, let’s try another angle. How about smithsmith? Well, smithsmith.com is taken. How about smithsmithcpa.com? Hey, that’s taken, too; smithsmithcpas.com? Guess what? That one is available. Not bad, not bad.
Let’s do the trick of doing a control,’s’, and we add it to our saved searches. We have two domain names that are available for the business.
I think you get the point. You can quickly find something that’s available. Get a dotcom and what I would do here is I would definitely reserve the company name, smithandsmithaccountants.com, and I would also reserve the shorter name.
Now, I might spend a little more time finding something shorter than smithsmithcpas and something easy to remember.
But, I would reserve that one as well. I would make that one my main website, and I would use that for my main email. Then, I would point the company name to the shorter version of the website name.
That’s how you get a great domain, and you get to know if it is available right away.
