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Finding the perfect name is an important step every entrepreneur is facing
when starting a new business. Having a brandable and memorable
name is the foundation for a successful venture; not having it could cost you an
arm and a leg in marketing costs, but no-one still remembers it.
With more than 50 million domain names already registered, you'd get a serious headache
brainstorming for names and looking them up in the Whois database one-by-one, only
to find that all the sensible ones are already taken. Good domain names are
still out there, its just not that easy to find them.
So we've built something that can save you a lot of valuable time. Some clever algorithms
and language rules in MakeWords deliver hundreds of new unique name ideas instantly.
In the beginning it may take a couple of minutes of getting used to it, but once
you do, you'll save hours naming for your future products or brands. We even have
pages where you can find a name for your pet,
baby, roleplay character or for your AIM
or MSN screen name!
When you first arrive to our home page, you'll immediately see ten
names that are created with our most basic name generation method:
This tool is great for finding names that don't necessarily mean anything, but are
short and pronounceable enough to be brandable and memorable. Names like
Google or Yahoo! would fall into this
category.
Creating such names is as easy as continuously hitting the Start button,
until a name you like pops up. With every click, ten new names are generated
using some preset language rules, that make the word "sound like" it would have
derived from a certain language. Without getting into much detail, the way it is
done is analyzing the probability of certain letter sequences and lexical patterns
of that language. With some luck, you'll get a short, available domain name within
a couple of minutes.
If you'd like to decrease the luck factor, enter some optional parameters like the
first letters of the name into the "Begins" box. Set the Page Size to 30
to display more results on one screen (results are returned a bit slower).
It is always a good idea to click on the alternatives link when
a name you like is taken, to get more results from the Yahoo domain name suggestion
engine. And if you need time to think about which name you are going to choose,
just click on add to favorites, so you can create a list of domains and
review it later in My Favorites; or maybe show it
to your friends of colleagues to get a second opinion.
If you'd like to return to your favorites and your saved keywords later,
sign in as a registered user.
Sample results (Language rules: English. Try It!)
Words can be generated in these languages:
Click on any item to run the search
Another popular way of producing a domain name is by adding an affix to it. Names
like besttoys.com or buy-adventure-books.com are very easy
to remember, they are search-engine friendly, because they contain the actual words
people are searching for.
We have carefully selected hundreds of affixes that contain words you can simply
combine with your own keywords to find available domains.
Let's say you need a name for a hobby site for an interior design business.
Sample results (Keyword "interior", Category "Positive Thinking I".
Try It!):
Naturally, it is harder to find names with keywords like home, travel
or pets. In such cases you have an option to:
- use synonyms (which we will cover in the next subsection)
- base, domestic, domicile, dwelling, habitation,
house, household, place;
- check the "insert a hyphen" checkbox to produce names like home-abc.com
or home-tips.com;
- type in an optional Extra Prefix (like my or the) or Extra Suffix
(s for plurals, d for past tense etc.) to get results like mytravelabc.com
or petwins.com.
All domains used in these examples were available at the time of writing.
Since there are different words for different needs, we have sorted them to separate
categories. The Positive Thinking category for example contains the
names that are meant to provoke positive thoughts - like best,
free, super, win. The Shopping category contains
affixes usually used in e-commerce websites, like buy, savings,
value, discounts and so on.
The following categories are available for the Combine keywords search:
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