Panabee is a good domain name generator but users should beware that some suggestions are bad ideas.
There are a lot of domain name and brand name generators on the web but most of them stink.
So it was refreshing to come across Panabee.com today. Enter a couple words and it goes to work finding many alternatives, synonyms, and substitutions.
I like how it pulls in searches from Twitter, Facebook, and Google as well.
With close to 100 million .com domain names registered, it can certainly be hard for startups to find the right domain names. Sites such as Panabee can help.
My concern is that some of the suggestions Panabee makes would be catastrophic if someone followed them. For example, the site offers up these solutions when a name is taken:
swap ‘y’ for ‘i’
swap first letter for a substitute
double the last letter
These are all bad ideas that will make it difficult for consumers to find your site in the future.
Panabee was made for non-domainers. Here’s what the “about” page says:
Just when you have the perfect name, the one that makes your face smile and heart sing, you learn some guy parked the domain three years ago. With no intent to sell because he’s too busy buying the domain name for your next idea.
But domainers might find it useful…to find that next idea someone might be thinking about 🙂
Here are a couple suggestions for Panabee:
1. Say who you are. People need to trust your site. Not disclosing who you are, and worse, using a whois proxy service to hide your identity, is not a step in the right direction.
2. Put a warning next to potentially troublesome substitutions like the ones I point out in this post. If nothing else, publish tips that explain what people should look for in a domain name — e.g. the radio test, easy to spell, etc.
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