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Anyone tried to get a good domain name lately?  If you have, its likely you’ve been frustrated with the options that you have left.  Of course, that is the case only if you wish to have a domain name that matches the name of your site.  However, there may be a creative solution available to you.

Consider taking the Google or Yahoo approach whereby your sites are “properties” and are named at the subdomain level.  For example, http://maps.google.com or http://local.yahoo.com.  Taking their examples, you can see that their primary domain name has nothing to do with either of their properties.  So basically, you simplify your problem down to finding one good domain name.  Thereafter, you can use any subdomain name that you want.

With most of the good domain names taken, this may be your best option.  I’m not sure why we aren’t seeing more of this.  Given how easy it is to put up a website these days, its likely that people will start to have multiple websites and this would be a perfect strategy.  However, you may have to Think Two Products Ahead and have thought about the brand behind your properties.

I had this thought many months ago and searched for a domain name to use.  Even finding one was difficult, but I was able to do it — I’m sure you can too.  The domain name that I chose is neatoidea.com (nothing there yet), which has a sort of quirky retro feel and could be used for any of my properties.  So now I can create http://.neatoidea.com and I’m all set.

Of course, you will have to decide whether you want coordinated accounts for your properties or whether they each stand on their own, so a little planning is in order.

Here’s hoping this is a helpful, if not neato idea for you…

Anyone tried to get a good domain name lately?  If you have, its likely you’ve been frustrated with the options that you have left.  Of course, that is the case only if you wish to have a domain name that matches the name of your site.  However, there may be a creative solution available to you.

Consider taking the Google or Yahoo approach whereby your sites are “properties” and are named at the subdomain level.  For example, http://maps.google.com or http://local.yahoo.com.  Taking their examples, you can see that their primary domain name has nothing to do with either of their properties.  So basically, you simplify your problem down to finding one good domain name.  Thereafter, you can use any subdomain name that you want.

With most of the good domain names taken, this may be your best option.  I’m not sure why we aren’t seeing more of this.  Given how easy it is to put up a website these days, its likely that people will start to have multiple websites and this would be a perfect strategy.  However, you may have to Think Two Products Ahead and have thought about the brand behind your properties.

I had this thought many months ago and searched for a domain name to use.  Even finding one was difficult, but I was able to do it — I’m sure you can too.  The domain name that I chose is neatoidea.com (nothing there yet), which has a sort of quirky retro feel and could be used for any of my properties.  So now I can create http://.neatoidea.com and I’m all set.

Of course, you will have to decide whether you want coordinated accounts for your properties or whether they each stand on their own, so a little planning is in order.

Here’s hoping this is a helpful, if not neato idea for you…