5 Domains Tools To Find a Good Blog Domain
Finding a domain for your brand new blog is one of the most important decisions you could ever make as far as your business is concerned. Having a domain that is “brandable” and easy to remember can be the difference between becoming a top blogger and failure in your endeavors. There are plenty of people who can right decent content online, but not every one of them makes it as a pro blogger. You need to treat your blog as a business, and the first step in that approach is to find a high quality domain name. So what makes a good blog domain? A domain that has some sort of meaning, is easy to remember, and gives a good first impression to your visitors. Take ProBlogger.net. You don’t even have to check the website to guess what the site is about. It’s easy to remember too. Owning the .com version is a must as well (it turns out Darren does own the .com domain as well).
Finding a domain like ProBlogger is going to be difficult these days. A lot of people own multiple domains these days, and it’s just not easy to find a decent domain that is not taken. That’s why you are going to need a tool that opens your eyes to domain ideas that you may not thought about. A domain tool that can combine words relevant to your niche can be a handy tool. Thankfully, there are plenty of these tools around, but here are 5 that stand out:
DomainsBot: my favorite domain finder. It’s completely Ajaxified and makes it easy to get ideas for your domain. It also has advanced features that you can use to come up with even more ideas.
Domize: an innovative domain search tool that lets you use enumerations and lists to build up killer domains fast. Once you read the instructions and learn the rules, the sky’s the limit with this service.
Domainr: an innovative domaining tool that not only finds you available domains based on your keyword phrase but also those international domains that are highly brand-able. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find a cool domain name such as “bit.ly.”
Domain Pigeon: another cool domaining tool that is great for developing ideas for your next killer domain. It provides you with not only available domain names but also twitter names as well. Who would have thought your Twitter name could become almost as important as your domain name?
Dot-o-mator: a simple but very useful domaining tool that can help you come up with some killer Web 2.0 type domain names for your blog, startup, or even forum. It’s compatible with iPhone as well. Great tool for Web 2.0 fans.
There are a few other domain tools that you can use to generate ideas. At the end of the day, your goal should be to find a domain name that is short, to-the-point, and gives you the opportunity to use it for branding purposes in the future. If you are stuck, the above tools will come in very handy.
