Web Hosting Domains – Few .Coms Left
Thinking of registering a domain with the hot keywords “web hosting?” Sure you are. I can read your mind. Well, I was bored today and thought I’d search and see what web hosting domains were available. So, to start my quest, I visited Godaddy and typed in webhosting .com into the search…
Looks like I’m about 15 years too late on that one. Some clever soul reserved webhosting.com back in January 1993 when I was in the fetal stages of Internet growth. Can’t say I’m surprised. If you are, I’ve got some .info’s over in Iceland that I’d like to sell you:). Have you noticed that just about any occurence of the word webhosting + any valuable keyword has been registered by domainers, SEO’s or individual businesses?
But what I really wanted to see was what results the Godaddy domain suggestion tool would offer as alternatives. Here’s what came up:
Is this sad or what?
Some of the premium domain names aren’t that bad but look how expensive they are!
The additional domains, those at regular prices, are the worst of the crop, wouldn’t you say? I mean, who wants to start a web site called “Web Hosting Store” or “Net Life Hosting.” Also, maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t it seem strange to have the word online and hosting together in the same domain name?
So what’s a web hosting sitebuilder to do? I know you’re out there so please speak up and liberate us from the prospect of buying a bad domain.
In this day and age, when keyword rich domain names are scarce. i have found by putting a numerical number at the end of your keyword may improve your chances of finding a keyword rich name. The number one thing to keep in mind is the less characters you use, the better. Also put your keyword as close to the beginning of the domain name as possible.
Not all web hosting providers need to have key words in the name. Providing it’s short and snappy you will be ok provided it’s marketed correctly, just look at UK2 for example, nothing related to hosting at all and they do ok.