Hello Babblers!

I'm gonna make a website, where i will sell (or give away?) web designs. I mean templates, banners etc.

But i need a name. I've been thinking about something like FreshWebDesigns, but that is allready taken

Do you have any ideas?

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My idea would be to try and find a domain name that is an exact match for some generic keywords that get searched in Google and is of course related to your target niche.

Try plugging in "web templates", "web design" etc into the [link removed. Please do not promote your own site] tool.

The tool uses real time data from the Google AdWords keyword tool and is a great help when I am trying to find domain names.

Hi Admin,

Feel free to recommend a site that you know of that has a tool that uses real time data from the Google AdWords keyword tool to find domain names - oh whoops last I checked ours is the only one. No worries, maybe you should go ahead and suggest an idea for Sir Fresh for his new website rather than just taking away my ideas

Hi Domain Superstar

No problem Sir Fresh should have received an email copy of your original post with the URL to your site intact.

Regards

Bob

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"A website with a thousand resources starts with a single page".
"Don't fight the gator - clear the swamp"

It may be interesting to know why the ban on self-promotion needs to be maintained with some care, Domain Superstar.

I suspect that you would not find this or many other forums to be of much use without it. This site is a favorite for many of us because of its usefulness and helpfulness only because of it.

While you may know your offering could have been a great help, how much help would it have been submerged in a bunch of spam from others offering junk instead? If people could just tell others to come to their site for help rather than offering help here which all could use, the value of this site would be diminished for us all.

As another of the moderators I can tell you that people not only try to post spam, some make two or three posts and then try to sneak in their spam sounding like innocent self promotion. Others even seem to get a colleague, or set themselves up as another poster, to ask a question and then answer with their spam formatted as self-promotion.

That is why we need to treat self-promotion very much like ordinary spam although it is usually just edited with an explanation or caution instead of deleted. We have to be fairly strict on this rule or the site would deteriorate quickly.

Thanks for your consideration and I hope you will work with us to make this an increasingly valuable forum for all of us.

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It's too bad you took offense to my edit. It was nothing personal toward you and perhaps I should have done a better job of explaining why I made the edit. It had nothing to do with whether or not your site was good, bad or the lack of other options. And quite honestly, situations like yours are often tough because your site may be a great solution but it still falls in the self-promotion category.

I have to look at the big picture here. If I let you recommend your site then that opens the door for someone who has a search engine submission service to recommend their site when someone asks about that in the Search Engine forum. So that would mean I would change the rules to say "If your site is relevant or helpful to the post then please feel free to send people to your site in a thread." That would be the ideal situation, but of course that would get abused by people coming here to link drop.

It's much easier to be consistent across the board and that is why I made the rule about self promotion and only allow link drops in signatures. As as admin, I have to look at the big picture. I hope you didn't take the edit personal because that is not what it was. It was simply an attempt for me to control self promotion -- which is a common problem here and would be a lot worse if the rules weren't in place.

I would LOVE to be able to visit other popular forums and recommend 2 Create a Website every time someone posts a thread asking for tutorials on creating a website. But that is against most forum rules because it's considered self promotion. And now that I run a forum and deal with spam on a day to day basis, I understand why forum owners have to be strict and consistent.

Perhaps a better explanation on my part would have made this a little easier, but I have to stick by the rules. I fully realize they are not going to be popular with everyone.

Also, good explanation James.

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No problem at all - I understand. Thanks!

When i search for "Web design", "Web templates", "Design for web" etc., they are all taken.. What can i do then!?

There is none domain names, that isn't taken!

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The next stage is to go for the hyphenated name.

I've got a suggestion but I don't like posting posting on an open forum, You don't know who could be watching and it only takes 2 seconds to register.

I've sent a PM.

Bob

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"A website with a thousand resources starts with a single page".
"Don't fight the gator - clear the swamp"

Not true. You must not have used the tool.

I used the "tool of whose name we must not mention" and typed in "web templates" and it found for me 59 different domain names that match exactly to keyword phrases that get searched over 100 times every month in Google. Here they are:

FREEWEBCSSTEMPLATES.COM
FREECSSWEBTEMPLATE.COM
FREEPHOTOSHOPWEBTEMPLATES.COM
WEBSTORETEMPLATE.COM
FRONTPAGEWEBTEMPLATE.COM
WEBTEMPLATESCOM.COM
FREEFLASHWEBTEMPLATE.COM
FREEWEBTEMPLATEDOWNLOAD.COM
FREEMUSICWEBTEMPLATES.COM
WEBTEMPLATESDOWNLOADS.COM
FREEWEBPAGESTEMPLATES.COM
WEBPAGETEMPLATESDOWNLOAD.COM
WEBEXPRESSIONSTEMPLATES.COM
WEBDESIGNSTEMPLATES.COM
WEBBUILDERTEMPLATES.COM
WEBLAYOUTSTEMPLATES.COM
FREESIMPLEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
BLOGWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREECHURCHWEBTEMPLATES.COM
WEBLAYOUTTEMPLATES.COM
COMPUTERWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEPHOTOWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEPHOTOSHOPWEBTEMPLATE.COM
FREECHRISTIANWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEFRONTPAGEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEXHTMLWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREESIMPLEWEBTEMPLATE.COM
COOLFREEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEMEDICALWEBTEMPLATES.COM
GOOGLEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
MAKEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREESPORTSWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEWEBSTORETEMPLATES.COM
ANIMATEDWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREERELIGIOUSWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREECHRISTMASWEBTEMPLATES.COM
TECHWEBTEMPLATES.COM
WEBTEMPLATEINPHOTOSHOP.COM
MEDIAWEBTEMPLATES.COM
BESTFREEWEBTEMPLATE.COM
CORPORATEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
BLANKWEBTEMPLATES.COM
CUSTOMIZABLEWEBTEMPLATES.COM
WEBNEWSLETTERTEMPLATES.COM
WEBTEMPLATESINPHOTOSHOP.COM
FREEFAMILYWEBTEMPLATES.COM
POWERPOINTWEBTEMPLATES.COM
SIMPLEWEBPAGETEMPLATES.COM
ELEGANTWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FREEWEBTEMPLATESCOM.COM
WEBPAGEDESIGNSTEMPLATES.COM
FREEMUSICWEBTEMPLATE.COM
CLANWEBTEMPLATES.COM
MAKINGWEBTEMPLATES.COM
AUCTIONWEBTEMPLATES.COM
FIREWORKSWEBTEMPLATES.COM
SELLINGWEBTEMPLATES.COM
GOLIVEWEBTEMPLATES.COM

All of these 59 domains are available to hand register as of the time of this post. Enjoy!

Good suggestions.

And then you can always just add your name, like: webdesignsbyjerry.com/

Some fields are pretty saturated but there is always a way.

Also, I have one name I really wanted that I got by waiting. It was taken but not really being used. I checked the expiration date and watched carefully when it expired. It became available and I bought it before anyone else. It might have been available for sale but I figured if I asked the price would be considerable and then it would have been renewed in anticipation of a sale. I was lucky, I am sure, but it worked.

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If I were you I wouldn't really choose a domain with template related terms because there are too many out there already and the domains become unnecessarily long (= harder to remember).

You could try going for a generic name that has no meaning attached to it. It stands out more.

I love Google's Captcha.. it comes up with the most brandable words.

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I always check http://instantdomainsearch.com/ to see if a name I may want to use is taken. I like typing in names to see what is already taken. I typed in a few names and most of the .com were taken. FreshNetTemplates wasn't taken, but it may be now.

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how about instantwebdesignz.com?

What about designstar or superstardesign