galdikas Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Ok.. So i think I may have thought of a good name for my game.. And surprise surprise .com is taken lol What is the next best alternative.. would it be .net?? Should I firstly try and think of alternative .com.. Or maybe try and contact the current owner of domain (there is no site hosted with the domain, so it is possible he might sell it.) Or .net domain is good enough? Its crazy with domains lol I have even written a little script which generates random strings from given letters, and after generating 1000s of results, I found a few that sounded like word but were not an actual word.. And they WERE TAKEN lol I am getting really frustrated here.. Have you ever bought domain from someone else than actual registrar? How does it work?? Do you just wire the guy money and hope that he will transfer the domain instead of scamming you? Or is there any safeguards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W3Theory || Peter Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I don't think you will be buying the domain from someone else (just guessing on your budget), those people tend to hold onto domains and wait for big offers which are in the 1,000s. Names, yes are hard to come up with, but I wouldn't settle for a .net just so quick. Try to think of a new .com name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Lots of things are taken that aren't words, I mean Google wasn't a word to begin with (it is in the dictionary now I believe). I was lucky enough to grab the names I wanted for the .com wish I could say the same for Twitter usernames -_-. Anyway, just keep trying different names if nothing springs up then the .net is always a possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galdikas Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 @Peter.. Well I am not sure if that guy is a domain nazi.. :) Usually if they hold domain for sale, they have some page hosted in it that states it?? And that is just blank.. So maybe he have paid for it, and got no more use.. So maybe will sell me for reasonable price.. never know :) Just now sure what to rite to him.. To make it look like I kind of need it.. but not really desperate lol So in scale 1 to 10 .com is lets say 10.. How much would you give to .net? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny696 Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I mean Google wasn't a word to begin with (it is in the dictionary now I believe).. Google is a often mis-spelled version of the word 'googol' which is 1x10^100 or the number 1 with 100 zeros after. I wouldnt say .nets are that bad, on the scale, I'd say about a 7... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky3809 Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I would do the .net or make up another url name, chances are they will want a lot for that domain, if your wanting it. people are like that... .net is used about the same as .com is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 .net can make sense if you plan to have multiple sites under a given name. Anyhow domain names are not the most important things out there (even if a lot of SEO companies will tell you something else). What counts is that people can reach you and I doubt many will type the URL at least at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galdikas Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 Regarding the SEO i do not think that domain extension has any effect what so ever. As well as reaching me for the first time will have little impact. Reaching me the SECOND time is what worries me. Because when accesing my domain for first time I imagine the user will firstly click a link somewhere. But second time he will probably be typing the url in manually. That is where he can make a mistake of typing in .com instead of net :) I am not sure if this worry have any real justification but it worries me a bit :) Am I right in assuming that most of traffic to your game isn't coming through search engines??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I doubt many will ever type an URL. So either they bookmark it or use again the same link or use simply the browser completion to find it back. So any domain will more or less do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominion Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 That's not entirely true. If I can't find a site again I type it into google. Saying that .net is still fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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