Archive for the 'Misspellings' Category

A New Resource To Help You Learn About Domain Names

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 [...]

‘The owners of Weather.com have understood the power of domain names for years. ‘

Fusible.com posted an interesting article about Weather.com and its history.  The article is entitled, ‘More Popular than Twitter: Weather.com, a brief history of a Year-round Category-Killer Domain’.  It says that the Website is ‘the 25th most popular website in the United States’.  Weather.com is indeed one of the domain names that I type in directly [...]

“Typo Generator Protects Your Brand”

DomainNameWire.com introduced, DomainTools.com’s Typo Generator in their post, DomainTools Typo Generator Protects Your Brand. Read on…http://domainnamewire.com

“Choose A Winning Domain Name”

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

Use of Alliteration and Misspellings in Domain Names

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 [...]