I always have breathed and believed in open-source. Human knowledge should be shared. That's why this is one post I will take you to my journey of buying a domain name.
What's in name ? I think proverb holds less significance in online digital world. Many people had a question "Dhaval when you own one website why do you want one more ? ?" It takes huge energy and effort to convince them dhavalyours is a blog. Its just a domain name and redirected to my existing blogger page.
Buying my first domain was fairly easy. I wanted to introduce myself to the digital world. Dhavalyours.com was a good and only option I would go with. I started my website with great enthusiasm which I try very hard to keep updated.SEO wise there was one problem I faced. There was one website already existing with name "dhavaltours.com" so whenever I would type dhavalyours in google it would always suggest me dhavaltours pissing me off. I sat down and tried to understand Google's algorithms. Then I eventually realized more number of blog post’s I write, more I share, more will the relevance of dhavalyours.com will come.
And to a certain extent it helped also. So this time I was mega- cautious while buying a new domain . I wanted a catchy domain. I wanted a 1 letter tob3 letter domain name. So I started my domain hunt.
Domain hunt technique 1
All were bought. Then I started with two letter combination like aa.com ab.com etc... I insanely tried till az.com.
RESULT : Almost all domains were bought and the remaining were not purchasable or not atleast at the price I could buy them, one of the domain had a cost of more than 5 lacks. Idea Dropped, new Idea.
Domain hunt technique 2
Technique: I published a feed to Facebook asking my friends to help me out with domain names. And yes I got suggestions and I was certainly excited with the response The domain names suggested were dp.com, dy.com, fu.com,jk.com, chu.com, gpl.com, maa.com, PKT.com,IDO.pk, QB.com, 69.com, SEX.com (Mehboob Ali Suggestion)
RESULT : Almost all suggestions were bought. One thing i learnt, The purpose of website should be clear to people who are suggesting you domain name. All domain name's suggested were either weird and no relevance. As a matter of fact I learnt that sex.com is the most expensive domain. Idea Dropped, new Idea.
Domain hunt technique 3
Technique: I was frustrated because at this point of time all the good domains were booked and taken. I wanted a 3 letter domain name, Relevance mattered a little. I just wanted an available 3 letter domain. I found out all 3 letters existing in oxford dictionary I found a website which had a list of all 3 letter words. Now I used an Html Dom parser to parse html and get all the 3 letter words in an array. Before adding them to array I converted them to domain e.g. www.egg.com etc... now I used php get_headers function to find out which are the words whose domain name is not bought.
RESULT : News for you fellow's every 3 letter world is bought with a .com domain. But my attempt was not a complete failure. I found out below listed domain names which are short and available domain names.
AVAILABLE NOT BOUGHT DOMAIN NAMES WHEN THIS POST IS BEEN WRITTEN
- http://www.p-ec.com
- http://www.rah.cc
- http://www.sot.me
- http://www.mysot.com
- http://www.teg.me
- http://www.vug.cc
- http://wis.me
One more thing these domains are available around 500 to 1000 INR. Most of them are available at price of Rs.500 at Go Daddy
Idea had results but i was left in a confused state of mind.
Domain hunt technique 4
Technique: Now i had list of available domain name’s the problem of relevance aroused now. None of this is relevant to what i wanna make. I had one domain in mind reinventingdreams.com. The problem was it was too long and too preachy and it definitely does not go by my style and personality. I was frustrated and annoyed. BULLSHIT I M BUYING AND I M BUYING IT NOW. Almost entering my credit card details i asked to myself “Are you sure you want this ??” Long silence. I said Lets try once more. I had 5 friends online on chat i started discussing and asking them suggestions for domain name’s.
Result: The chat session was hilarious and really funny. I would like to paste the really enjoyable part …
Dhavalyours : codeshrushti.com i m buying codeshrushti.com
Reeve : Not bad. But itna accha nahin hain re. Try CoderDude.com
Dhavalyours : Taken.
Reeve : Codekimakasakinaka.com
Dhavalyours : ha ha ha ha but hey dudecoder.com is available
Dhavalyours : code which will blast your monitor away ha ha.
Reeve : Codeblast.com, Funkycode.com, Fucksexycode.com
Reeve : Shit Try Crazycode.com, Codexplode.com
Dhavalyours : Taken.but hey codeswear.com, CODEULTI.COM (code ultimate),codogle.com ( short for code + google) are available
Reeve : This is it try Baapcode.com
Dhavalyours : AVAILABLE. hey guess what maacode.com, codemunni.com abe codebhai.com is der
Reeve : Lol Codebhai.com
Dhavalyours : Toh bhai aur baap le bich mein competition hain codebaap.com or codebhai.com
Dhavalyours : codebhai.com is in bapu ko bye bye
Reeve : You know dhaval i saved best one for me http://www.madarcode.com
Dhavalyours : Reeve BEST OF LUCK.
So in this way i ended up buying www.codebhai.com My new site. will be functional in few months and would reveal the secret of site-matter later. I think the journey is more worthwhile than the destination itself. As someone said “To always have a good idea Have many of them”
I seriously enjoyed my process of buying a domain hope you guys enjoyed reading it too.
gud one dude... keep going ... but what u gonna do next..y u want domain ... let me know...
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nce post...........
ReplyDeletesme months bck i was trying......2 intro: my own website ...........bt i faced similar technical prbs......so dropped t idea....bt now i'm rethinking bt it........ hope tht u would support me.............
Are definitely man would help you out.
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