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Top tools to pick the best domain for your business

Picking a domain name can be a very hard task.

Perhaps you already have your company name and are ready to launch it on the Web, but you can’t find the corresponding web address free. So, what to do if someone else has already registered the desired domain name and it isn’t available for buying? Just find a new one! The Web is full with resources to help you find a great alternative to your original idea, adding prefixes, suffixes and common words that can help your brand to identify and make it easier to remember, too.

And, if you just want a nice name to launch your company with or are willing to publish some personal website, what you need is just a shiny new cool name to start with!

Words combining

The most popular tools to find a domain name base their functioning on the user input.

Users just enter some words they think describe their business and the application outputs a list of names generated by combining all the words provided together.

This process is particlary sueful if you have already some ideas about what your domain name will look like, or want to see some word combination and hope you get some ideas from the results.

Domain generator — http://www.domain-generator.net/domain-combination.html

Domain exposer — http://www.domainexposer.com/

Bust a name — http://www.bustaname.com

Nameboy — http://www.nameboy.com

Domain name creator — http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/

Suggest.Name — http://suggest.name

Keyhints — http://domains.keyhints.com

New Doamin Name Generator — http://newdomainnamegenerator.com

Random domain names

For those who haven’t the slightest idea of what words their domain name should contain, there are some great random domain name generators that jsut get the job done.

Makewords — http://www.makewords.com

Randomainer — http://www.randomainer.com

Typos-based domain names

Ok, this one is just creepy, but if you have ever wished to have your very own domain name on which people click jsut because its name is so close to the word “google”, well this tools does just this.

Domain Name Soup — http://www.domainnamesoup.com/domain-name-typos.php

Web 2.0 names

Whatever the term Web 2.0 may mean, many web companies need a name that’s in line with their new-media services or products. Those names are in the fashion of popular web sites that deal with news (Digg, del.icio.us), media (Flickr, Vimeo) and everything else which is Web 2.0 and stylish.

Domainr — http://domai.nr

Dotomator — http://www.dotomator.com/web20.html

Hackslash — http://www.hackslash.net/?page_id=48

Web Scripts Lab — http://www.webscriptlab.com/domainnamegenerator.php

Surf7 — http://www.surf7.net/product/tools/domaingenerator.php

Internet Marketing Fool — http://www.internetmarketingfool.com/web-2-0-name-generator.php

Naming companies

And if you really can’t find a domain name that suits your needs, just head up to one of the domain naming companies around the web. They offer a professional approach to the problem and go straight to the point, often coming up with great domain names you surely like.

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