The Perfect Domain Name

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by carlsednaoui • 15 years ago

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eurleif• 15 years ago

Also, if the Twitter handle is available, register is first! If you try to register the domain first, a bot will often grab the Twitter handle.

RexRollman• 15 years ago

Really? That's messed up.

carlsednaoui3• 15 years ago

Ha, didn't know about that - good tip!

shousper• 15 years ago

Guess I got lucky.. maybe by staying off the radar. After having my domain for a few weeks now, I just went and grabbed g+, fb and tw accounts/pages for it =D

Thanks for the tip though! Didn't think of this at all..

sarbogast2• 15 years ago

Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.

ajaymehta• 15 years ago

I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/

sarbogast2• 15 years ago

Nice indeed!

carlsednaoui3• 15 years ago

Sweet interface!

ctbon• 15 years ago

Similarly try namecheck.com

It searches the main social sites for handles but also searches for domains and trademarks.

rickette2• 15 years ago

Perhaps it's just me but I'm always a bit hesitant to use third party domain checkers. I can't speak for namechk.com but who says the owner of such service isn't logging all entries?

Whenever I want to verify whether a domain is available I use the official whois servers.

berberous• 15 years ago

Worthless article: Register twitter/facebook/g+ of your domain.

Duh

brianbreslin• 15 years ago

i agree, can't believe this was on the front page.

nothanks• 15 years ago

http://www.google.com/search?q=first+world+problem+meme

Anyone with Photoshop and a few minutes of spare time?

carlsednaoui3• 15 years ago

Sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised at the amount of people that don't check social networks prior to buying a domain name.

operand• 15 years ago

This is a total shameless plug here, but I've been building a site for exactly this reason for a couple months, and would really love to hear feedback.

The site is http://namrr.com

No I'm not doing any front running or any thing like that. I hope to maybe make some affiliate dollars, but really I built this for myself first, because I hate the stupid frustration of trying to find a name, and I want to make it easy. It's a total work in progress. I would love to hear what you think. Hope I don't get flamed for the self promotion...

The Perfect Domain Name

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