add letters to domain to get one that's free

unwashed potato! · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:34

it would appear every single domain name i'm after is taken so i'm having to be creative and add a small extra to it to get on that's free.

i would like to hear suggestions for how to keep the domain short and it be free? my best idea atm is to add uk to the end so mysiteuk.com, though i'm not so keen on the uk.com bit. i tried adding ltd but it's taken, adding - but it's taken and not ideal, tried .net etc all taken for all the names i want. adding services gets me a .com name so i could do this but it makes the name long and not so nice when printed on things with limited space and ends up being really small yet really long.

RoyMi6 · 6 Oct 2010 at 09:11

Might help if we had the name of your company...

But are you not able to use something like my-site.com?

Why not change the name of your company? Obviously a saturated market ;-)

Roy

V4NT0M · 6 Oct 2010 at 10:37

Hyphens is the usual way to get around this, also look at other domains than .com if suitable. You also might consider using subdomains to add more relevance to your domain name, so if you were only able to get secondchoicedomain.com you could use something.secondchoicedomain.com to better communicate the site's intention.

It also depends on how much users will actually be using your url to get to your site and how often they will re-vist.

unwashed potato! · 6 Oct 2010 at 11:07

Mammalian said:
i tried adding - but it's taken and not ideal.

there isn't really a second choice for this as they're all taken so i might as well go my first with an additional few words. adding uk at the end is so far the only way to do it and keep it short but i would prefer not to have sitesiteuk.com

3dcandy · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:03

surely you may have to think of a different name then?

unwashed potato! · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:06

there isn't really a second choice for this as they're all taken so i might as well go my first with an additional few words

unwashed potato! · 9 Oct 2010 at 13:32

well i deced to add the to the beggining to end up with www.thecleanforce.co.uk it never hurt thefacebook.com get going so i don't think it'll hurt ours either, i just wish it was 3 letters shorter but can't win them all. i think adding the was better then having cleanforceuk.com

m4rkw7 · 9 Oct 2010 at 14:50

Agreed. thecleanforce.com sounds better than cleanforceuk.com. You just need hosting now.

unwashed potato! · 9 Oct 2010 at 15:08

m4rkw7 said:
Agreed. thecleanforce.co.uk sounds better than cleanforceuk.com. You just need hosting now.

i have space with vidahost so it's up now though not complete. glad you prefered thecleanforce as everyone i've asked lately have disliked the one i liked most.

Snograt · 9 Oct 2010 at 19:42

Looks a bit daft having the company's contact email as [email protected] though.

unwashed potato! · 9 Oct 2010 at 20:04

Snograt said:
Looks a bit daft having the company's contact email as [email protected] though.

Mammalian said:
i have space with vidahost so it's up now though not complete. glad you prefered thecleanforce as everyone i've asked lately have disliked the one i liked most.