Choosing a Domain Name

At this point in the life of the Internet you are trying to find a name that has not been registered by someone else. Of course all the good names were taken way back in 1998. So you will have to be creative with your name and find something unique.

Lets say I want shopping.com, of course it is already taken.

Some good alternate name ideas would be to add a simple word to your name such as a location.

Try "shoppingflorida.com" or "shoppingfl.com"

Common addons include terms like online, my, best, better, big, biggest, new, now, live, store, supply.

for example:

onlineshopping.com
shoppingonline.com
myshopping.com
bestshopping.com
mybestshopping.com
newshopping.com
newshoppinglive.com
shoppingnow.com
bettershopping.com
myshoppingstore.com
shoppingsupply.com

Another addon could be more related to the product line. If your store will sell music, you can add words like music, notes, lessons, band, dj ect.

musicshopping.com
bandsupplyshopping.com
shoppingnotes.com

The name of your domain will not affect your search rank or how the pages are indexed. Don't belive that rumor? Look at the biggest names in the business. amazon.com, yahoo.com, google.com, walmart.com, ebay.com, none of them have products in their name and still have healthy online traffic.

Names can be silly like squigglebot.com or more serious like e-commerceinc.com. The name means very little to the search engine. It only needs to fit on your business card and be something your customers will remember when they do not have that card in their hand.

People can remember "pageBuzz.com" but they would not remember "websiteshosting4587pagesemailandmore.com" and if you could remember it, the chance of typing it correctly without a typo are slim. So keep the name as short and simple as possible.