i make names (ideas included)

Domains and Ideas – 7/30

imakenames — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:47:52 +0000

Here’s a few new domains/ideas to start the week:

NetToMe.com
Excellent domain for a service that pushes online content to a mobile device.

ListPop.com
Great domain for a personal list organizer for practically anything.

ClickAware.com
Good name for a click fraud monitoring service, analytics/tracking service, etc.

iAggregate.com
Excellent name for an aggregation service (rss, news, content, jobs, etc.)

CodeSnap.com
Great name for a code related site or service – tools, forum, network, blog, directory, etc.

ShadyTees.com
Excellent name for a custom t-shirt site/community.

KillerHack.com
Great domain for a hack resource site or community.

It’s all in the Caps

imakenames — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:21:32 +0000

I was culling through a few thousand domains today and found one that caught my attention. Not because I thought it was a great domain, but because it has two potential meanings – both widely different from each other.

When read like this:

LoversExchange.com – it could be used as a dating/hookup site.

But when you change the Caps around:

LoverSexChange.com – well, that’s another story.

Keep an eye out for these… domains like this have the potential to harm your brand if they go undetected.

Domains and Ideas – 7/27

imakenames — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:28:26 +0000

Here’s another fresh batch of domains/ideas available at DNfolio:

NameAware.com
Excellent name for a domain name tracking/monitoring service, drop catch service, copyright protection/tracking, etc.

SocialStorage.com SOLD
Perfect keyword domain for the growing social storage model.

InventionWatch.com SOLD
Great domain for a site that reports on the latest inventions – blog, forum, directory, etc.

BlogCommons.com SOLD
Excellent name for a blog network or alliance.

LinkPurchasing.com SOLD
Great domain for site focused on text link buying/advertising.

EfficientSEO.com
Great name for an SEO related site – agency, consutant, blog, how-to guide, etc.

TechMoon.com SOLD
Great name for a tech related product or service – blog, forum, agency, etc.

Domains and Ideas – 7/25

imakenames — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:41 +0000

A few more domains available for purchase at DNfolio for $35 each:

OfficeWanted.com SOLD
Great domain for a niche office space classified site or AdSense/YPN arbitrage site.

URLpawn.com
Perfect name for a domain pawn/loan service – several of these have popped up in the last year.

SoIronic.com SOLD
Great domain for a humor/gossip site or blog.

TypeFactory.com SOLD
Good name for copywriter/editor services, forum posting service, font marketplace, blog, etc.

InstantAdd.com SOLD
Good name for a friend adding service for social networks. Could also work well for an automated data capture/entry product.

TechnicalSEO.com SOLD
Great domain for a blog, forum or how-to site that is focused on the technical/site architecture side of SEO.

Domains and Ideas – 7/24

imakenames — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:31:38 +0000

Here’s a handful of new domains and ideas for this week (so far). All domains can be purchased from DNfolio for $35 each:

BlogSonar.com SOLD
Great name for a blog tracking or analytics service.

PressBoom.com
Excellent name for a press/PR related service (press releases, social media, etc).

GivingList.com
Perfect name for a charity, volunteer or fund raising related service.

PostAdHere.com SOLD
Great name for an advertising network, classified advertising site, link/banner exchange, etc.

ParkSEO.com SOLD
Great domain for a customizable domain parking service with SEO friendly functionality.

ImageDetection.com SOLD
Great keyword domain for image detection systems/services.

MatchName.com SOLD
Great domain for an aftermarket domain reseller or consultant.

RingStock.com
Perfect name for a ringtone related site.

NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO

imakenames — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:26:37 +0000

I recently read a great article by Justin Smith at InsideFacebook.com that talks about NFO (News Feed Optimization) for Facebook. He thinks it is the single most important thing you can do as a marketer on Facebook. Below is the first part of his post (click the link above to read the full article).

“Everybody with a website knows that Google owns two of their most important marketing channels: organic search (SEO) and paid search (SEM). In fact, entire cottage industries have developed around them:

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – gaming Google (and the other search engines) into thinking you’re authoritative on a given topic and deserve to be listed highly in its search results.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) – paying Google (and the others) to put you next to sites it thinks it is authoritative on a given topic.

Inside Facebook, however, Google is irrelevant. Instead, Facebook owns your most important marketing channels: the News Feed, Notifications, and Messages. And marketers and application developers have analagous marketing options with Facebook as with Google on the open web:

NFO (News Feed Optimization) – convincing Facebook to display the Feed items that your application publishes in your users’ friends’ News Feeds.
NFM (News Feed Marketing) - paying Facebook to insert your ad next to Feed items that it thinks are important enough to be shown.

News Feed Marketing is fairly easy for marketers to understand: give Facebook your credit card number, and they’ll stick you in the News Feeds and guarantee a certain quantity of targeted traffic to your Facebook application or sponsored group.

News Feed Optimization, on the other hand, is a bit trickier:

Like Google’s PageRank algorithms, Facebook’s proprietary “FeedRank” (my term) algorithms determine which Feed items are shown to whom and which items are not.
Like Google’s undisclosed PageRank algorithm, the variables that contribute to your Feed item’s FeedRank are unknown to you (and everyone except Facebook).
Like companies dependent on their SEO’d Google PageRank, companies dependent on their NFO’d Facebook FeedRank will experience similar trauma when the algorithm unpredictably or inexplicably changes.

Welcome to the new world of NFO–the new SEO for Facebook marketers. Optimizing your product’s News Feed items is the single most important thing you can do as a marketer on Facebook. Not only should Feed items be designed for optimal conversion, but they should also be invoked by your application in ways that will maximize their distribution.”

This makes a lot of sense to me. I believe that there will be a need for experts that know how to leverage the news feeds on Facebook to get apps in front of the right people. I just registered the domains below on speculation of the future growth of this practice:

NFOblog.com
NFObook.com
NFOconsultant.com
NFOexpert.com
NFOforum.com
NFOservices.com
NFOtactics.com
NFOtalk.com
NFOtips.com
NFOtools.com

We’ll see if this was a worthwhile investment in the coming months.

Domains and Ideas – 7/11 thru 7/18

imakenames — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:25:06 +0000

Here are a bunch of domains from the past week:

TalkCheats.com
Perfect domain for a video game cheats forum (or blog).

IdeaSignal.com SOLD
Great name for an idea blog or forum (startups, websites, products, etc).

AjaxHack.com SOLD
Excellent domain for an Ajax hack resource site.

PHPhacking.com SOLD
Great domain for a php hack resource site.

CSSchannel.com SOLD
Great name for a CSS related site – videos, tutorials, courses, etc.

HostCave.com
Great domain for a hosting directory, forum or service.

AjaxChannel.com SOLD
Excellent domain for an ajax info site – videos, tutorials, courses, etc.

WereInBeta.com SOLD
Perfect name for a site that lists new companies that are in beta – can even work an invite service for private beta sites as well.

CitiSpeak.com SOLD
Great domain for a citizen journalism or local news service.

VentureGrow.com
Excellent domain for a forum or social network of entrepreneurs to connect and help each other grow their businesses.

CheatsTV.com SOLD
Perfect name for a site for video game cheats – video is the next logical step for this HUGE market.

CSSbuffet.com SOLD
Great name for a CSS related site (IconBuffet.com is a great site)

AffiliateBooth.com SOLD
Great name for any affiliate marketing related service – network, directory, blog, conference, how-to, etc.

TadBit.com SOLD
Great domain with many potential uses – (a little bit goes a long way) – more than 850,00 results in Google for “tad bit”.

PicSnap.com SOLD
Excellent domain for a photo sharing site or an online photo editor.

Today it begins…

imakenames — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:07:29 +0000

Hello domainers, developers, investors and anyone else that has found their way to my blog. My name is Jeff and I have been buying and selling domains for the past few years. I operate an aftermarket domain sales site at www.DNfolio.com. I will be posting my new domain catches of the day and some ideas and insights on what they might be used for. Check back every few days to see my latest inventory – maybe you’ll find a domain that will work well for your next idea or project.