Dev Dash with Dhavalyours : Art of buying a Domain

                                         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

Technique: I started with numbers like zero.com,one.com etc..
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

Reeve : Codebomb.com

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.

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