Expired Domain Name Archive - Feb 13, 2007

Expired domain for Feb 13, 2007:

1. lutely.com
2. urland.com
3. thesmallest.com
4. tatei.com
5. prakan.com
6. threadfin.com
7. seegranite.com
8. dentia.com
9. theidentity.com
10. richly.com
11. genitalanatomy.com
12. thyroxine.com
13. sociation.com
14. thatched.com
15. aviculturists.com
16. foronly.com
17. standardmethod.com
18. askyourself.com
19. grapheditor.com
20. hiringpractices.com

Visit the Expired nomain name inventory to see current data.

Very often, if you can’t get the domain name you want, the domain name registrar will suggest alternate forms of the name you typed. For example, if you wanted website.com, and it was taken (of course it is), it might suggest forms like:

thewebsite.com
mywebsite.com
websites.com

and the like, if they were not already taken as well. The question is, should you take them?

My personal opinion is that if you take the “the…” and “my…” forms of the domain name, you must always remember to promote your site with the full form of the name. Otherwise, people are likely to forget to affix the necessary “the” or “my”. For that reason, I always advertise my sites as “thesitewizard.com” and “thefreecountry.com” in their full domain name forms, rather than just “Free Country” or “Site Wizard” (without the article).

On the other hand, I would not take the plural form of the domain name (eg, websites.com) if I cannot also get “website.com”, since the chance of the visitor failing to type the “s” in the name is very great. Think about the famous name tussle between etoys.com and etoy.com. Many people wanting to go to etoys.com were apparently going to etoy.com instead. If it happened to them, it can happen to you too.