Are there any good desirable domain names left? Or are they all taken?
AFAIK, 3 and 4 letter domains are all gone, but are there any good 5 or 6 letter domains left? Have you found them?
Are all the good domains taken?
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Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#2www.nameboy.com is useful.
Also, searchyc.com can yield lots of threads re: how to find more domains.
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#3Not all the good ones are gone, but it's certainly getting increasingly hard to find a sensible domain name. What worked for me recently is although I couldn't find a domain name that wasn't taken, I found a good one that was registered but isn't in use, then used the coarse expedient of offering the owner a few hundred quid for it.
My main concern is that most of the domains are ending up owned by a very few individuals concerned only with slapping cheap advertising on them. I refuse to attempt to buy domains from these bottom feeders, and I would suggest that everyone else do likewise. However, it's an increasing problem that's going to require either the advertising industry or ICANN to crack down on one of these days.
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#4I find this one handy: http://www.bustaname.com/
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#5I think there are a fair amount of 5 letter domains out there yet. (here are the few 5-6 I've registered: kleevr.com, kratr.com, rabyt.com, exphi.com, excyt.com, xcytr.com, zroone.com, onezro.com, grabyt.com)
Whether these qualify as 'good domains' might be in the eye of the beholder, but I like them and have pretty good ideas sketched up for most of them.
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#6This one is good for brainstorming ideas with immediate feedback: http://instantdomainsearch.com/
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#75-letter doesn't necessarily mean good. For instance, the 5-letter domains mentioned by kleevr in another post (kleevr.com, kratr.com, rabyt.com, exphi.com, excyt.com, xcytr.com, zroone.com, onezro.com, grabyt.com) might be nice and geeky, but good luck trying to get someone to remember them.
There's plenty of good stuff in 6/7-letters. I recently registered flails.org for an open-source project, and my latest business runs on Woobius.com. Both are clear and easy to remember (and, we reckon, not lame).
Daniel
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#8There are places like Namejet you can use to know when "good" names are expiring also.
Personally, I think that people give too much merit to the short domain names. There is some value to a 4-6 letter domain name, but it's not the be-all/end-all.
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#9There are probably still 4 letter domain names in .us (and friends). I got jrock.us a few years ago -- nice-n-short :)
Re: Are all the good domains taken?
#10A lot of them are gone, which is what you get when you make the cost of registering a domain pretty much free. IMHO it'd be far better to make the cost of registering a domain a few hundred dollars a year.
As it is you can just register domains, slap advertising on them, and you make a slow profit.