Comments on: How to Choose the Right Domain Name https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/ Nicole Dean educates and empowers entrepreneurs to create kick ass businesses so they can live life with no regrets. Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: James https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1424 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:10:32 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1424 Another thing to take into consideration is branding vs. keywords. Which is more important depends on what kind of business it is. Ideally, it is nice to have both, but often this can be very difficult.

]]> By: Brian https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1423 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:24:26 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1423 I’ve purchased about 20 domains so far and each time I do I read through about 20 articles on choosing the best domain name, LOL! No lies! I find that it helps me with inspiration. I enjoyed these two articles, but I very much liked all of the comments and lil tid bits that people have left here as well. Thank you all!

http://www.guidetostart.com/?page_id=4
http://www.domainsuperstar.com/how-to-choose-a-domain-name

]]> By: Elisabeth Kuhn https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1422 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:36:13 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1422 Hi Nicole,

what a great post — and discussion!

My own personal Oops domain was this one:

Growbackhair.info

No, no! It’s not about growing hair on the back, but about having it grow back!

It still gets quite a lot of sign-ups, but oh, well… I wonder how many it would get if it were a better domain name…

And my seemingly smart and witty name LinguisticLeverage.com kept getting so many snarky remarks about cleavage that I’ve just about stopped using it. Sigh.

On the other hand, why the prohibition against dashes? Then again, I just found myself struggling with some new names that I tried to say out loud on a podcast and a video:

traffic-dashboard-bonus.info 😉

i.e., traffic dash dashboard dash bonus dot info! Yikes!

Not sure I’ll ever get visitors that way… I think I’m going to try to avoid dashes as much as possible in the future.

Thanks for a great post.

Elisabeth

]]> By: Tim https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1421 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:19:54 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1421 Great tips, Nicole. I went through the same process of picking some terrible domain names before setting up a list of processes and rules to abide by.

– Tim

]]> By: Prague Hen Weekend https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1420 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:27:56 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1420 I need a domain name that has “designs” at the end, but I cant seem to think of one. It needs to sound good, give out some suggestions. (eg: Carbon Designs, but that is already taken)

]]> By: Caitlin - BrandBucket https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1419 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:10:52 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1419 The best way to pick your blogs domain name is to get a .com and find a name that is more about short memorable potential that descriptive keywords. Something that is one of a kind. I love the unique invented words.

]]> By: Shannon (Living Life at Home) https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1418 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:24:18 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1418 Where in the world was this post a few years ago…I have made all of these mistakes with domains and come to similar conclusions – especially the Oprah test. You should be able to say your domain and have it easy to remember and not have any confusion on how it is spelled. I so wish I had realized that sooner.

As always great info, that can save a lot of grief later. And thanks so much for the laugh, your examples are memorable 🙂

]]> By: Allison https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1417 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:27:38 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1417 MarketingTheRapist.com? Oh god, I laughed till I cried.

]]> By: Loretta https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1416 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:45:27 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1416 In reply to Nicole.

Give them away as stocking stuffers LOL

]]> By: Alaina Frederick https://nicoleonthenet.com/6681/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name/#comment-1414 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:58:01 +0000 http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/?p=6681#comment-1414 I love all of these tips and I’m also a domain junkie. I have over 15 domains and most are just pointing to a page on my main site. Then rest are just sitting there taking up space. I have to admit when I got dinkerandgiggles.com it was because it was the name of my company. Every month it is the top search into my site. So it tells me that no one knows how to spell it and that people are at least remembering enough to do a google search for it. My other domains are with purpose like breastfeedingtipsfornewmoms.com.

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