If you’re good with names, sign up here.

Once upon a time, it was easy to step up to the domain registry and request for a registration of your company’s name. Now it’s different. If your company name is taken, you look at the WHOIS database and find out if someone legitimately holds it and perhaps, if you wanted it badly enough, you could approach this individual and ask to buy it off them. You may pay just the registration fee or you may end up paying handsomely, depending on who’s hands the name fell into and how badly you want it.The problem is, and has been for some time now, with the domain registration. There has never been any rules so anyone can step up and register what they want without verification that the name they are registering has any thing to do with the kind of business they engage. That’s why it was simple to register www.williamgates.com when you weren’t william gates himself. (Poor Bill had to pay a mint to get his domain name back).After hearing a couple of success stories like that, people started registering all sorts of names, hoping to cash in one day. If you happen to stumble upon a website that didn’t sell anything and only contains links then I’m pretty sure the domain is for sale. These domains are parked for free and are waiting for someone to come along and make an offer.Now, turning the clock ahead to today. If you were a company starting up on the internet, it would be very difficult for you to come up with a domain name that is not already taken. You may say that you have better things to do than to dream up of a name then see if it’s taken. I can tell you that I’ve tried that and it took me a heck of a time figuring out something that works.Introducing www.PickyDomains.com, a new website that company owners can approach and register with to request for creative domain names. On the other side of things, anyone can register to be a contributor of domain names. After registering, you can list out all the available orders. These are companies who are requesting for a domain name. Some of them are picky, wanting the name to contain less than 3 words. Some prefer an extension of .com. Others want the name to be less than 3 syllables. Ok, you get the picture. As a contributor, you come up with names that have not been registered. When you submit a suggestion, PickyDomains will actually check the interNic database to see if it is available. If so then it accepts it. After a few days, your suggestions are published and presented to the companies for review. They respond by either specifying that they like it, dislike it or pick it. If they pick your suggestion, you will get paid $25. That’s not bad for coming up with a name.If you’re interested in making some money but you have to rack your brain on this one, go to www.PickyDomains.com and sign up. 

1 Comment

  1. March 27, 2008 at 5:25 am

    Great idea to make some extra cash !


Post a Comment