HOW TO FIND A GREAT DOMAIN NAME

HOW TO FIND A GREAT DOMAIN NAME how to fid a great domain today we're not going to do any design work i'm just going to talk about something that's very important if you're a freelance designer or coder or anybody is creative I you always should have a website so before you have a website of course you have to have the domain name so most people are most beginners rather you know their method of choosing a domain name might be just go to a site like godaddy.com try to do the search there and find something ultimately that is available and that's it well that's the wrong approach there's a lot of different ways methods tactics techniques that you can use to try to find a good domain name so that's what I'm going to do in this video a little bit just talked about just a few ways on strategies that you can use to try to find a domain name alright so basically if you haven't yet check out design course calm and subscribe here on youtube alright so basically the way I approach finding a domain name I i will usually start off at instant domain search com and i've used this for quite a while and basically what's cool about it is if you just start typing any type of characters available and I i did a search for that domain on and Google and that name was barter full . com so i just typed in barter full and i saw that someone had put up a video already about introducing beautiful calm and I the actually happened to be just like a fake type of company for a class like a college project i guess but someone already owned it so it's kind of nice to know I where if there's ever any type of history associated with the dot-com or if there's already a company name that's associated we already being used I as your calm and you you obviously kind of want to avoid that so I going to close that out real quick so basically when it comes to choosing a domain extension dot com is most preferable of course there are very successful . nets I even . ko's and in dot orgs I you don't always have to but most people that the average person when they think of a domain I they think of the dot-com first so there's definitely higher value and that so I if we also come over here say for example you didn't really find anything everything's taken maybe you really do want a certain com that's already available well you have a couple options when it comes to design course com I really wanted that name but a domain name squatting company they were they were using it so that they owned it and so what will happen is you'll see some of the times is let me see I bring up another window here this is what kind of shut up that you'll see these type of landing pages all over for a lot of domains they're already registered but they're owned by a different company and their sole purpose is trying to make profit by selling it so if you're interested in buying this website name click here to inquire and you can really go back and forth with these people to try to get the price down because although they do want to sell I so when it back when i bought design course , it was I think was like fifteen hundred bucks but to me it was worth it was a good domain name on and obviously being a keyword domain so I that's one thing to keep in mind a another to keep in mind is to check out snap names . com and this is an interesting tool because I allows you to browse a list of domains that will be expiring soon so obviously most of you already know that when you register a domain name you don't just permanently own it is a thing that has to be i renewed annually so every 12 months you have to renew it unless of course you buy bulk years and what happens is sometimes people for whatever reason they let it expire maybe most people probably gave up on the idea I some people maybe got a new email address forget to check the notifications that come in from the registrar alerting them that the other domains about to expire and that has happened in the past because some really awesome domains have I actually gone into in expiration and you're able to bid on this because these companies like snap names they're able to I really register and quick and you're able to go into potentially bidding wars with other people who also want the name so i've used this in the past but I was actually quite a long time ago i haven't used it recently but you can click over here and categories for example I let's . HOW TO FIND A GREAT DOMAIN NAME