Archive for the 'Avoid Hyphens' Category
DnJournal.com introduced me to the Domain Name Knowledge Base (DNKB.org). To quote, ‘the goal of the site is to help educate the public about the domain name industry by providing easily accessible [...]
December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Alliteration, Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Domain Names and/or Sites For Sale, Easy to Remember Names, Forwarding an address, Geo Domain Names, Good Content, Green Domain Names, Internet Advertising, Media Advertising, Misspellings, Names Available to Register, Promoting Your Website, Real Estate Domain Names | No Comments
GoBackpacking.com offers a lot great advice and a bunch of examples to help you think about choosing a ‘winning’ domain name. Check out the blog entry…http://www.gobackpacking.com
May 19th, 2009 | Posted in Alliteration, Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Blogging to Promote, Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, Internet Advertising, Marketing to Kids & Teen, Misspellings, Promoting Your Website, Search Engines, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
Lauren created an interesting post for “The Perplexikon”, which “is devoted to the documentation of letter abuse” entitled “Trade name desiderata“. She quotes an essay from 1925 that said,
“Some day [alliterative] names will no longer be thought attractive or
picturesque. They will not be novel enough to catch the eye and
therefore to promote sales…”
The same [...]
December 16th, 2008 | Posted in Alliteration, Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, Misspellings | No Comments
Domain Name Wire (now located at DNW.com) had a good post entitled, “More Bad Domain Names” where he shares some names and then explains why they are bad.
Read on…
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November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
NameWire: the product naming blog had a well written and thoughtful post on the use of hyphens and other punctuation in branding and in domain names entitled, ‘The Difficulty of Brand Naming Punctuation‘. The post offers some surprising examples including one about a super hero.
I have been tempted (and succumbed) on a number of occasions [...]
November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Choosing a Good Name, Domain Names and/or Sites For Sale, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
When I first became interested in buying and selling domain names I read where you shouldn’t use hyphens if you could avoid it. The reason: people don’t think to type in a hyphen. My experience since then has confirmed that. For example, let’s look at the DVD format, ‘blu-ray’. It is my understanding that [...]
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Avoid Hyphens | No Comments