Rosalind - 11:24 pm on Jul 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

Recently I bought 2 domains. The first was in the form Placename + Keyword, and the first name I thought of was available immediately.

The second was for a site with no geographical specifics, and on a relatively general topic. It has taken me two whole weeks of racking my brain to come up with a suitable name! I scoured the dictionary, used suggestion tools, and even built myself a random name generator in php to help inspire me, all to no avail. All the original-seeming names I could think of were taken. In the end I found one, but it took a lot of effort and I'm not saying how I arrived at it.

The contrast between the local and general domain markets is shocking. I've heard a lot of domainers swear blind that .com is the best extension, and I suppose this is why good local domains are still so easy to find.