Comments on: Austin to Houston: 68 Domain Names

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:38:01 +0000

Here’s an interesting pickup of this story:

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:50:28 +0000

Graham, you can even take that to the next level. When I named my last business I actually used some of the domain name generators to come up with possible names!

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» Blog Archive » Austin to Houston: 68 Domain Names - Domain Name Wire — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:54:08 +0000

[...] Austin to Houston: 68 Domain Names – Domain Name WireAustin to Houston: 68 Domain NamesDomain Name Wire, TX – 12 hours agoI was amazed at the number of small businesses that had domain names advertised on billboards or their store signs. There was The Busy B, which advertises … [...]

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:16:41 +0000

Interesting article. It is also an increasing trend when starting a business to decide the business name around the availability of a good domain name. This is particularly important where the domain is available to be registered or acquired at the reasonable price. In other words, domain name availability driving the business naming process rather than deciding the business name only to find out you can’t acquire the related domain because it is already in use.

My wife named her business after a brainstorming session but importantly a key requirement was that the domain was available to be registered. This can only be good for domain name owners.

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:47:05 +0000

Patrick, that’s a great point. Even TheBusyB.com might have been mis-remembered had I not been paying attention. I would have likely remember it as TheBusyBEE.com.

I checked the BastropEDC.com domain when I got to Houston and you’re right, it’s not registered. There are many non-profits in this same case. I was giving a helping domain name hand to a church the other day. They’ve had the .org name of the church registered since 1998, but not the .com.

So what if someone remembers it as .com? Won’t they find the .org eventually? Maybe. But what if someone decides to put adult content on the .com? That would sting.

If I think about the domain names I really remember from the trip, I’d say PizzaHut.com and Lennar.com (home builder, saw their buildboard many times). I wanted to remember some of the other’s because I’m interested in their services, but I keep typing the domains I “remembered” and apparently they’re wrong.

By: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:45:22 +0000

Hi Andrew,

A while back you gave a valuable lesson to everyone that it is to one’s benefit to get a domain name that is easy to recall.

You had a dental emergency and couldn’t remember how to spell your dentist’s name but you did remember (recall) the domain name your dentist used on his business card.

For everyone’s benefit that domain was JawPain .com.

I wonder how many of the 68 domains you saw w
you would be able to recall because they are “recallable”.

TheBusyB.com for The Busy B- recallable, I think. And relates to the Company name.

BigThunderFireworks.com for American Fireworks -maybe recallable.

Too bad they couldn’t get
AmericanFireworks .com.

BastropEDC.org – for Bastrop Economic Development Corporation. Not recallable IMHO
andI Ad they did not have the sense to reg the .Com version of their domain.

For under $10 ,they won’t protect their domain property and i find this is the norm with many non-profits.

Maybe juice for another article?

Can you recall any of the other domains?

Patrick