Tag: DOMAINNAME

Coming up with a good domain name these days is akin to finding a parking spot in New-York. Accordingly, tools for finding free domain names abound, and most of them offer some sort of a "brainstorming interface". The idea is to help you come up with a domain name nobody (including yourself) considered before. Domize is one of the nicer attempts at this sort of thing. At its simplest form, it's a ...

Remember those sites that purported to tell you what your website is worth? Just type in a domain name, and out popped an impressive-sounding number that wasn't worth the pixels it was rendered with. Well, now we have the same thing for Twitter. It's called TweetValue. If you were wondering about the validity of the dollar value that TweetValue comes up with for your Twitter account, check out ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/11/23/wordoid-helps-you-make-nonsense-names-with-good-domains/'; "Wordoids", which are words that are made-up, but sound right. They follow the rules of phonetics, and if done properly, roll off the tongue. The need to have an online presence has increased the need for unique product and company names and has led to these wordoids. Yet, even ...

You've got enough to worry about with your new Web 2.0 startup without having to come up with a clever name - never mind a matching domain name that's actually available. Well, why not take advantage of Dot-o-mator, a crafty little web app that reaches deep into its dictionary and outputs a list of possible domains that would make Dr. Seuss proud. Of course, coming up with a combination is ...

Remember uTube? Of course you do. Who could forget about the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation. OK, that was trick question. But the corporation's website happens to be similar enough to a popular video sharing site that nearly 2 million people each month mistype YouTube.com and wind up visiting uTube. You'd think that'd be a good thing, but not if it means crashed servers and ...

I'm not exactly sure how fresh this news is, but apparently the company that was supposed to be handling registration for Libya's .ly top-level domain name but had utterly failed to do so since April 2004 has been given the boot. As of October 14 of this year, .ly registration is in the more capable hands of GPTC, Libya's General Post and Telecommunications Company. Why is this news? Because now ...