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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

Rick Schwartz, the seller of Candy.com, has revealed that it wasn’t Hershey’s that purchased Candy.com.  In fact, he says,“…it was not Nestles nor any other company you have ever heard of. Yet.”
Read Rick’s intriguing post about the sale and the business climate today.
http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2009/04/hersheys-did-not-buy-candycom-guess-who-did.html

“Looking for a Product or Company Name” offers a creative method of coming up with a domain name.  In a nutshell, invite some friends over, ‘liquor’ them up a little and as they are ‘loosened’ up let them come up with names.  Even as a ‘teetotaler’ I had to laugh and appreciate the idea.
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Branding Strategy Insider: The Branding Blog had a first-rate exceptional posting entitled, “Naming Redundancy and Beyond” written by Steve Rivkin.
In the post Mr. Daye accomplished two things very effectively:
1) pointed out how a marketer can simply add a modifier to come up with an effective domain name
2) and implores the marketer to resist the urge [...]

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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In the previous post I mentioned Microsoft may be rebranding LiveSearch again (remember MSN?).  INC.com has a good article that states “it’s better to change (names and branding) than to stick with something that isn’t working”.   The article is entitled, “The Rebranding Game: If at first you pick the wrong name, you can always try, [...]

There are many news and gossip articles suggesting that Microsoft has a branding initiative underway.  One of the best articles I’ve read is from E-Commerce News, “Will Microsoft Get Search Branding Right With ‘Kumo’ ?“  The articles say that Microsoft has been buying up various versions of domain names with ‘Kumo’ in them.  This article [...]

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 [...]

There are many free ways to create blogs or Websites but with most of them you are stuck with an unattractive have a less than desirable address.  For example I could have used Typepad for this blog and my address would be http://names promote . typepad .com (without spaces).   Most of the free services [...]

Barry Goggin had an interesting post on “DomainInformer.com” entitled, “Wellderly and Illderly“.    He has an interesting discussion about aging adults and these two ‘catchy’ Website domain names.
In the article he makes some very good points about:

Positive spin domain names
Evaluating catchy domain names
and even Justifying your selling price (OR buying price)

Check out the article…
I have many [...]