Discoveries, Stuff from the Interwebs, Web Design

Jun 25, 2008

I’ve been toying around with an idea to create a different, user-driven, blog and searching for a good domain name to go with it. I’ve found a couple of “okay” ideas, but so far everything else I have searched comes up registered, but when I view the site, it’s just a parked paged! I mean, these are good names, catchy, too. But these Internet low-lifes just squat on them, hoping someone with big bucks will come along and want to buy. (The domain in the image isn’t one of my ideas, but rather an ironic find.)

It’s said that it’s nearly impossible to get a good one or two word domain name because they’re all gone, for all TLDs. In my experience, it isn’t that the best domain names aren’t all gone, they’re squatted on.

More information at the always-resourceful, but not always accurate Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting (Note that “Cybersquatting” refers more to the squatting on domain names that are related to a registered trademark of another company, not necessarily just being a bastard to Netizens like me, but it’s a good read nevertheless.)

Update: However, I do appreciate that the model that appears on all these landing pages is really attractive.