How to Find a Good Domain Name

Finding a good domain name can be very challenging. Because people are buying domains every second around the globe. But it’s still possible to find a perfect domain for your blog. In this post, we will show you the tricks of finding a good domain for your website/blog. And also you will know what is a valuable domain looks like.

How to Find a Good Domain Name?

Now the problem is your desired domain may not available at this moment. And even if you search for the domain availability by your nickname, it may also not available. So your job is to search for the best domain based on availability. No other way to get started. However, it’s a real pain to find an existing domain owner and make an offer for it. Also, all the domain owners do not have the desire to sell their domains unless it’s parked for sale. On the other hand, it may cost you $2,000 to $20,000 (approximate) if you want to buy a parking domain. In our opinion, it’s not worth buying a $10 domain with $2,000+. It’s a huge waste of your money. That’s enough for not buying a parked domain. Let’s see how you can find a new $10 domain for your website & business.

TLD (Top-Level Domain)

There are lots of domain extensions such as com, net, org, info, xyz, etc. But “COM” has the highest value and a “COM” can be used for any type of business. On the other hand, NET refers to network, ORG refers to an organization, INFO refers to information, so on so forth.

However, if you are still confused about the term “TLD” or Top-Level Domain, here is the simple clarification: “TLD or Top-Level Domain refers to the last part of your domain name which comes after the Dot.” For example- com, net, org.

Statistics show that 51.6% of the websites have the “COM” extension or TLD. So we can definitely say this TLD has worldwide popularity. Most importantly, your website visitors are very comfortable with this domain extension. Another cool thing is- most of the mobile keypad/keyboard has the “.com” button.

That’s enough for choosing the “COM” TLD. Now find the domain availability for your website.

How to Search for a Good Domain Name

There are a few helpful domain checkers out there. These tools will give you inspiration and ideas. Let’s discuss one by one:

Lean Domain Search

It’s a FREE domain name generator tool for finding available domain names. Once you go to the website, put your desired single word on their domain name search form, and hit enter. It will bring a lot of ideas for your domain name. Not all the ideas are accurate but you can choose from the available domain names list which best suits your website or business.

You can filter the search results by popularity, length & alphabetical order. You will find the filtering option on the right sidebar. Try to play with their search results and the filtering options, and see which best works for you.

However, there are lots of domain name checker out there, but most of them are misleading. They just try to push you to buy a domain from their referrals without much giving you enough flexibility to look around.

In our opinion, above tool is just fine to come up with fresh ideas.

However, if you also need hosting with your domain, you can claim a FREE domain with your hosting package. There are lots of good domain & hosting companies out there. Bluehost is a reliable one of them, and you can get a domain for free with any of their hosting packages.

If you’re not sure about the hosting package you should buy, we suggest you buy their “Choice Plus” package. Once you go to Bluehost, navigate to “Hosting => Shared Hosting” and there you will find the available packages. The “Choice Plus” package will cost you $107 and the “Basic” package will cost you $71 per year. However, you will get your desired domain for FREE with any of their hosting packages. For further information read this post.

We do not want to sidetrack our goal. Let’s put your desired domain name in below box and check if it’s really available for purchase:

The Shorter the Better

Short domain names are easy to remember. Even people can remember short domain names from elevator pitch. Make sure your domain name is easy to spell or pronounce. We said that a good domain name should not exceed 15 characters but don’t take it as Bibel. If you see that you found a perfect match but it exceeds 15 characters, then go for it but do not exceed too much.

Also, we said that your domain name should only contain one or two words. But if you find a meaningful brand name with three words, then feel free to go for it. But again, the shorter the better.

Sometimes you have to apply your own intuition for finding your website domain.

Take Action Before It Has Gone

Three months ago we chose 7 domains for our clients and added them to the cart. Once we went to the checkout page and made the payment, we saw that 3 of them were not available. So we had to buy 4 of them. It took us approximately 30 seconds to go from the Cart page to the Checkout page. And during these 30 seconds, other people bought those three domains. How bizarre!

So if you found your desired domain, then don’t waste your time. Because it may not available for a long.

Don’t Lose Your Focus

The ultimate goal for buying a domain is building a website. And a website is valueless without traffics. And the traffic comes to your website for content. So your highest focus should be on your website content.

There should be a way to monetize your website so you can earn some money on regular basis from your website. There are lots of ways you can do it. Try to search and pick the right monetization approach which you are comfortable with. We also have an article about the popular & most common ways to monetize your blog/website. Feel free to check the article after.

Never Waste Your Time & Energy With Completely Free Domain & Hosting -A Hundred Dollar Advice

You may hear about completely free domain & hosting. Such as TK Domain, 000webhost, etc. Never waste your time, effort & energy with this type of trap.

Every free thing has a reason. Some reasons are valid, some are not. This type of free domain & free hosting company has awful intentions.

We can write a lot more about them, but it’s not our topic. In a nutshell:

• There is no guarantee to keep your website live. You may not see your website in next morning.
• They intentionally inject bad scripts on your website and try to gather your visitor’s information.
• Those companies will push you to make a purchase at a certain point.

Just to be on the safe side, always avoid those free domain or free hosting companies.

If you can not effort for domain & hosting right now, use localhost, Cloud9, or even Codepen for experiments. You will be on the safe side at least.

Now you know about how to find a good domain name, what a valuable domain looks like, why you should not use completely free domain & hosting, and the valid alternative of it. But if you still have questions, let us know in the comment below.