Unfortunately there are very few real words or even real word combinations that are not registered.
Clever misspellings have been a solution to that problem.
What do you propose as an alternate solution?
Clever misspellings have been a solution to that problem.
What do you propose as an alternate solution?
Problem solved... I'll plug my own site for finding good, available domain names: http://Hotnamelist.com
Or, go out and BUY a good one: http://sedo.com or http://Afternic.com
It's nice that your site lists CowardlyAct.com, MountyBounty.com and SecuritySituation.com as available - but that's completely useless to me who's looking for a name that somehow makes sense in conjunction with my business model.
Furthermore a good name is supposed to be short and distinctive. Most names listed on your and similar services meet neither criteria. They consist of more or less randomly combined dictionary words which leads to generic 10+ letter domains like, well, SecuritySituation.
My common sense and probably every marketing book in existance. Think about the internet brand names that you can recall from the top of your head. How many of them are longer than 8 letters?
Security Situation is a pretty damn good name if you're starting a security company.
Most certainly not. It's generic and unsuggestive. That kind of name may work for an information page ("Security situation in your neighbourhood") but not for most businesses.
Ive been struggling looking for a new projects domain for days now, snapnames, freshdrop, domainpigeon (from here), so hopefully you might have some suggestions!!
I thought this too, but did a quick back of the envelope calculation:
The OED had 616,500 English words in the 1989 edition.
In 2003 there were ~24,000,000 dot coms registered.
Let's assume 2% of English words are usable in a 2 word domain name combination. That means there are ~ 12,000 words that you can combine to form a new domain. Which means there are ~ 144,000,000 possible 2 word dot coms.
So the majority of real world combinations are not registered if you only consider 2 word combos.
The market shows combos can be pretty random: surveymonkey, plentyoffish, craigslist, etc.
trailbehind.com (also thetrailbehind.com)
greathive.com (also thegreathive.com)
loudmountain.com
darnnews.com
agent1099.com
photosensate.com
surelogic.com
These are all fine domain names made of real words.
That's not a qualitative assessment of your 'good' domains, just an observation.
I think a good name won't help you much, but a bad name can hurt you in tangible ways.