The internet has evolved dramatically over the last decade in terms of how people end up at your site. Still, your domain name remains a vital cog in your marketing strategy. Here are 8 tips for choosing the right domain name in today’s online world.

1. Use Killer Keywords: Think about it – GoDaddy would never choose GoDaddy if they started today! Who would search for “godaddy” hoping to find a domain name purchasing site, if they hadn’t already heard of GoDaddy? Think through the key words or phrases related to what you have to offer, and then put them together in memorable combinations and begin searching for available domain names. The exception to the rule is that if you have millions of dollars to invest in advertising your domain name, then choose whatever the heck you want!
2. Go with “.com” or Forget it: Maybe in five years this principle will change, but for now, .com’s still rule. People hear the domain name and fuzz out on the “dot part”, since it remains ingrained that everything worth remembering is a .com. If you are using a .org or .net, you are losing tons of traffic to the .com name you are mimicking. Better a good .com domain name than what you think is a great dot-anything else. This rule holds until further notice.
3. Make it Memorable: When you’re driving along, listening to the radio, you may hear the name of a website you want to check out from a commercial or talk show. You think, “oh yeah, I’ll remember that…no need to write it down.” An hour later it is gone from the memory banks because it wasn’t deposited there with enough memory force. Memory force is vital. Choose a domain name that uses a keyword in a memorable way: HostGator, TiresWorld, JobsFinder, LoanToday, etc.
4. KISS your Domain Name: You know what that stands for – Keep it Simple…! The shorter it is, the more memorable. The shorter it is, the less likely misspellings will occur. And speaking of misspellings, spend a few extra bucks and purchase domain name misspellings that might commonly occur: Googel.com is exhibit “A.” Otherwise, you’ll lose traffic passively to folks who can’t spell well, or actively to someone trying to steal traffic intended for you.
5. Grab your Business Name.Com: Whether this serves as your main URL or as a redirect URL may depend on how well your business name is known, or how descriptive it is of your products and services. But as people get to know you by your business name, it will be vital that you own and use it. Purchase domain names related to individual products or services, too, for creating sub-domains or mini-sites.
6. Let People Know What to Expect: Choose a domain name that clearly defines what you do, so people know what to expect. What would you expect from WebVet.com or FindCars.com? Yep, that’s what you’ll get. This builds brand ID and enhances memory force.
7. Avoid Numbers and Hyphens: While numbers may work okay visually, it’s been demonstrated that hyphens do not. And both numbers (spelled out or used numerically) and hyphens create confusion when they are simply heard.
8. Buy and Keep all the Extensions: While the dot-com domain name is best, eliminate competition by purchasing the .info, .org, .net, .biz, and now, the .mobi. The .mobi will be a growing necessity in a mobile world, and you’ll soon be glad you have it.

In today’s crowded, competitive web marketplace every advantage must be pursued, and the selection of a quality domain name is essential. To find a domain name that is descriptive and at the same time catchy or memorable is part science, part art, to be sure. Do some research, brainstorm with colleagues and partners, pick the consensus favorite as your main URL and buy all of the good alternatives you can afford.

The author, James Adams, writes for Cartridge Save, a leading provider of HP 364 ink and other supplies.

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Domain names can make or break a successful online presence, so finding the right ones is important. On the Internet every day, hundreds of thousands of domain names expire while even more are produced. If you’re looking to get that perfect domain for your website the opportunity to get it can come and go without you even realizing it. This is why monitoring is so important to any domain management program. You also need to monitor your current domains so that you don’t let any of them expire and slip away from your control without you knowing it. Here are 8 applications and tools that you can use for domain monitoring and management.

1. Bust A Name: an online Web resource that is useful for finding available domains that match your requirements and to monitor domain names for status changes. To help you find domains that you can use, BustaName will enhance searches by prepending and appending letters and even alternate spellings (such as omitting vowels). You can create a custom tracking table filled with potential domain candidates that you can rank by quality and potential as part of your monitoring program.
2. Domain Punch: an application that installs on your Windows computer to track business assets such as domain names on the Internet. With special solutions geared toward large and small business customers, you can get a program with the features you need to track your domains and to find new ones as well.
3. DNZoom: helps you manage your registrar accounts, parked domains, and domain security. Using DNZoom, users can secure domains with “Bank-Level” security, giving you the peace of mind knowing that your domain names won’t be taken away from you right under your nose. With DNZoom, you can reclaim hours of productive time that you’ve been spending on domain monitoring. It even has the capability of tracking the earnings you are generating from parked domains. DNZoom is an essential tool for effective domain monetization.
4. Domainer: a Mac OS X app that gives you lookups for domain data such as page ranking information, back links, Diggs, and more. This powerful research helps you identify what domains are worth buying and at what price. Domainer will sync with iCal to keep track of domain expirations. You can also use Domainer to export and import Smart Groups and lists.
5. iWantMyName: a Web-based application that will help you manage and register international domain names. The service also facilitates connecting your domain with other online services and apps.
6. Domain Portfolio Manager: a PHP/MySQL browser based application that is designed to give you powerful but easy to use domain tracking and management. This package allows you to categorize domains, sort domain lists, find SEO safe URLs, automatically obtain domain creation and expiration dates, and conveniently update WhoIs data.
7. DomainTyper: a search engine styled application that will search domains based on your input. The system will report back to you whether or not you can implement your idea. This website also has a dynamic random domain creator that can help give you new and creative ideas for naming your domain.
8. DNScoop: a website that attempts to value online property. It bases its calculations on the number of links headed for a domain, how long the domain has been established. DNScoop also looks at historic traffic data, overall popularity, and page rank when determining how much a domain is worth.

By taking advantage of the powerful Web-based and computer-based tools on the internet, you can transform domain monitoring and domain management from laborious time-intensive tasks to informative and exciting simple tasks. The apps listed here are a good starting point for automating your domain tasks.

Tom Walker is a writer and designer who works with an online ecommerce store based in the UK who specialise in printer ink. He is an editor and contributor to their design blog where he posts about vintage advertising, modern art and print media.

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One of the most asked questions is CVCV domains? Seems many people hold 4 letters domains, but not many of them is brand able or catchy names.

During my research for CVCV domains, I come across very interesting explanation of why you should invest in those domains, and what they actually represent.

This explanation was posted on forum and here it is..I hope it will help to everyone who want to know how this CVCV translates into your investments..

What is CVCV?
C = consonant (a consonant is “a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed”)
V = vowel (a vowel is “a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction”"
Note: definitions from the New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998

In the Latin alphabet, the Vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U.
The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition (Consonant or Vowel) The letter Y is probably more often used as a vowel, but in this role is often interchangeable with the letter I

By general concensus, there are 13 letters from the 21 Consonant are called Premium Consonant Letters, they are:
B, C, D, F, G, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T.
The 8 left (J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y, Z) are called non-premium letters

A CVCV Domain is a Domain consisted by 4 letters in CVCV sequence, for example, bade, beco….

Why CVCV Domains?
There are Lots of investors seek words that can be pronounced, CVCV domains often have a catchy sound to them and are quite brandable. They are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself.

There available CVCV Domains are limitted.
All CVCV.COM are gone, and more than 90% CVCV.NET taken already. Even for the latesr released .MOBI, 40% CVCV.Mobis are registed already (Most still available CVCV.Mobis are with non-premium letters)

Note:
There are total 15,000 CVCV domains only
(21 consonants, and 6 vowels . Letter Y acts as both consonant and vowel = 21x6x21x6 =15876, then remove the combinations with “YY” included, final number is 15,000)
If look the CVCV Domains with Premiun Consonants only, there are 6084 (= 13*6*13*6) Premium CVCV Domains only for each TLD!!

If you can’t afford to invest in generic dictionary dot coms, then invest in CVCV Domains

Written by Julian Founder of SDNForum

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Imagine you’re the owner of a successful Web site, but when you logon one day all you get is an error message. Or worse yet, the domain name now points to a site full of advertisements. That’s right. You’re out of business.

This happens every day because of a perfectly legitimate process known as “drop catching,” where people quickly snag the domain names owners have let expire and try to resell them or use the links associated with the names, which could be extensive, to create Web sites loaded with advertisements. You can easily avoid becoming a victim of a drop catcher by better understanding how the domain registration system works to protect your domain name.

Your Web site, with all the content you have so painstakingly added, sits on a computer with a unique address called an IP address, which is simply a series of numbers. A domain name is an address forwarding service that directs visitors to the site using this IP address. Domain names are used instead of numbers because most people find it easier to remember a name rather than a bunch of numbers. It’s as if you could dial your friend’s name into the telephone instead of his phone number.

You can purchase a domain name by registering it with a provider of domain services such as GoDaddy.com , the largest on the Web, or any number of other registrars. The name can be registered for just one year, for about $10, or for as long as ten years, for around $80. Many register for only one year because it’s cheaper, or they only want the site for a limited time.

At the end of the year, the registrar usually sends an email renewal notice to the owner. If the owner doesn’t respond to the renewal notice, the domain name will eventually be made available for purchase by someone else. Roughly 20,000 domain names become available every day because the owners allowed them to expire, or the owners didn’t realize that their domain name was up for renewal

According to the rules established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN), domain registrars have 45 days after the expiration date to notify the owner that their domain name is going to be dropped from the registry. If the name is dropped, the guidelines then call for a 30-day grace period during which the owner can still claim the name. After this grace period and then another five-day holding period, the name is dropped from the registry and anyone can claim it.

Since 2004, however, a number of domain service providers, starting with SnapName.com, have created an auction process for expired names which bypasses the original drop process and makes the names available in as little as thirty days. GoDaddy.com begins the auction process even before the names have officially expired; although it does warn the auction participants that the owner could still claim their name.

These providers of domain services each have tools on their sites to make it easier to grab expired names. They provide constantly updated lists of expired names, various auction services, search engines, and other free tools for anyone to quickly and easily find available domain names. Some sites also offer software for sale that further simplifies the search for expired and soon to be expired names.

With the surge in online advertising, drop catchers will continue to seek out domain names from sites with good traffic, anxious to exploit the established links. Protect your site and your business by checking the expiration date of your domain name. Relying on the registrar to send a renewal notice that could easily be sent to an old email address or get lost in the spam catcher, could cost you years of hard work.

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Guest post by Adam Torkildson

One of the easiest things in the world is buying a domain name. Granted, there aren’t that many premium domains left. So how do you choose between buying a domain with a less well known extension like .info or .biz, or ponying up the cash to buy a premium .com?

It’s a simple matter of ROI. If you do your research, you can actually register brand new .com domains that will generate revenue if promoted properly. Or you can go the route of buying domains that someone else has registered, and trying to determine if it’s worth it for you to pay alot up front for a big return down the road. It’s up to you. So here’s a way to possibly get a .com domain that hasn’t been registered, and make money from it:

Step 1:
What products or services do you have access to sell? Are you going to do affiliate products, or can you do something yourself and charge money for it? After you answer these questions, move on to step 2.

Step 2: What keywords best describe (and I mean REALLY describe) what it is you do or are going to sell? Brainstorm, and use tools such as the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find suggestions.

Step 3: Use a bulk domain registration checker like: Bulk Domain Search – Bulk Domain Registration and paste in the list of keywords the Google Adwords tool has generated for you.

Step 4: After you have found an available domain from the list of keywords, register it, and start hosting it right away.

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Selling Your Domain?

List Your Domain on DomainAmero.com

If you have an interesting keywords domain names that you would like to sell we will consider adding it to this website. We reserve the right not to advertise or sell any domain. Please let us know how much you would like for the domain. Send us following details : Registrar, Expiration Date, descriptions, website URL ( if any website exist), and the price or you would like  consider the offers.

There is no charge for the listing. We only make a charge if we sell your domain.

The charge is 5 % of the final sale price. You will be responsible for any transfer or associated costs.

Find out more visiting the DomainAmero.com

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The domain name industry is one of the most flourishing online industries. The industry flourishes on selling/buying domain names as a commodity. Today more and more companies are getting into DOMANING business.

It is the business of buying, selling, developing, and monetizing Internet domain names. The professionals dealing in domain names are known as Domainers. Domainers buy, sell, and develop domain names. In domaining, income comes through domain parking and development, as well as resale. Some professionals prefer the terms domain investing and domain investor to the terms domaining, domainer or domain speculator.

You can park the domain name with a parking service. These pay a percentage of the advertising revenue that is derived from the advertisements placed on a page showed when someone visits the domain. Most of these parking services also offer a sales listing service for enabling an easy resale marketing of the domain.

You can make your own park page; you only have to create own small website with the ads and then receive hundred percent of the revenue. However, it will not be much profitable as the parking services get more traffic flow.

You should create a small web site but that should be rich in content. Usually, these small sites are enriched with the articles and contextual advertisements from the Adsense, which are often known as AdsenseSites. You can develop a web site with complete features. These types of sites include selling services or products and also the paid links and advertisements.

While at the stage of development and value adding, make money by just reselling the Domain/ Site for a higher value above the purchase price. Here are the factors that gain value:

• Keywords and brand-ability of the name
• The number of web site visitor traffic
• Return from the website
• Current demand for similar names
• Current search engine ranking
• The number of web site linking to your website
• The interest of the buyer for the name

There are ways that can result in losing your money on domains; these include registering a trademarked name, paying too much for the domain name, or getting scammed by ‘email’ and other types of frauds.

While keeping these things in your mind, you can more money. You can also easily make money from domain investments using the smart ways of creating income stream or maximizing the resale value.

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Adding Twitter is very popular terms on Google.
Pulls of about 50,200,000 searches for those 2 keywords. Twitter is hot social platform!

Appraisal by Estibot USD 1,500
Develop website based on adding twitter to the website, word press platform, joomla, i phone,or any other applications. Opportunity for development is endless, and is hot right now.

BID on BIDO TO OWN ADDINGTWITTER.COM

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What if you can scan any web site to chose your domain name. Chris Pirillo created website tool -just type any web address on the planet that exist, and got results.

Problem is not registration process, problem is that all good domain name is taken.

I try out  the tool with domain name  incomegirl.com , and results is following;

MoneyCarry.com (View)

EverythingIncome.com (Buy)

NovemberGirl.com (View)

MarketGuide.com (View)

SocialYour.com (Buy)

SystemValue.com (View)

MuchBlending.com (Buy)

AboutNames.com (View)

FromServer.com (Buy)

WithThere.com (Buy)

WhetherShould.com (Buy)

SomeoneDifficu.com (Buy)

DomainCall.com (View)

MuchCatchy.com (Buy)

BelievedCourse.com (Buy)

MoneyCarry.com (View)

EverythingIncome.com (Buy)

NovemberGirl.com (View)

MarketGuide.com (View)

SocialYour.com (Buy)

Leave comments and let me know how this works for you. Share with Protycoon readers your experience.

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“Wikipedia

A personal identification number (PIN; pronounced “pin”) is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system. Typically, the user is required to provide a non-confidential user identifier or token and a confidential PIN to gain access to the system. Upon receiving the User ID and PIN, the system looks up the PIN based upon the User ID and compares the looked-up PIN with the received PIN. The user is granted access only when the number entered matches with the number stored in the system.”

Owner of the Epin.me offered domain for sale! For price please contact me.
Epin.me Great domain name to develop  web site based on Pin identity.

Examples;

• E-mail me PIN
• Identify yourself
• Create PIN for all social networking site-secure login

Google pulls of about 141,000,000 for pin .

Easy to brand, easy to spell, easy to remember domain name. Contact me with offer.

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