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Can't choose somain name

Too many choices

         

olwen

10:41 pm on Aug 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'm doing a website for a company. They supply food, lets say widget fruit. Their company name is something like Best Widget. I thought of registering best-widget.co.ctry, but widget as well as describing the substance (which is not fruit, but thats a very similar example) can be a pastime, and he's worried that would give the wrong impression. I think best-widget-fruit.co.ctry is too long. I can get widgetfruit, widgetfruits and the plural forms as well. In this case widget is a classification so the widget fruit is really whosit fruit, whatsit fruit and something fruit which are collectively either called widget fruit or fruits depending on the writer.

I'm confused and you probably are now as well, any thoughts.

[edit]I'm so confused I even messed up the subject[/edit]

Cipher

10:45 pm on Aug 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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fruitcake.ru?

Anyway joking aside I would probably suggest that you dont try and be too specific in getting a domain name. Basically a domain name should be

  • Easy to remember
  • As short as possible
  • As relevant as you can make it

    Sadly it is never that easy because someone always has what you want. You could choose something else like which could describe what you sell from a sales point of view like cheapfruit / qualityfruit / fruitstore or something.

    The best way to figure it out is to write down a bunch or relevant words that you can think of and just play jumble with them so you end up with something good.

  • olwen

    10:52 pm on Aug 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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    I'm very spoilt for choice in that the keywords are all available. I'm going to stick with a country tld because they are most likely to supply domestically. They are primarly a processor/wholesaler rather than a retailer. I'm most worried about hyphens as against no hyphens and singular against plural.

    pearl

    12:56 am on Aug 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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    Everyone gets so hung up on this.

    Think about it... Names are $8 each. Buy 50 of them. Big deal.

    Pearl

    Dpeper

    12:58 am on Aug 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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    Go grab one thats already listed in yahoo, and has a decent starting PR. And make the brand around that.

    pearl

    1:06 am on Aug 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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    DP

    Google has recently reset any new dropped names to PR0, so any name that was dropped and had PR value, would be worthless to you for that purpose.