Over the past 3 months I’ve had a bit of an itch that is all to common amongst established bloggers. That itch is to spend time every day going domain shopping.

Over the past year, Kyle’s Cove has had a focus on a very large area, rather than limiting the focus on to a single niche. I’ve got plenty to write about, so I’ve been trying to narrow that focus here on my personal weblog, and then find some useful keyword-heavy domains to write about my other interests. One example was the recent launch of Hack WordPress, which is where I write about all sorts of WordPress stuff, such as plugin and theme reviews, news, hacks, and tips.

Over the past 5 days, I have devoted close to 30 minutes each day to searching for domain names, and managed to snatch up a few dot com domain names that I really like. Unfortunately, I was not having any success finding a domain name that I liked for one particular keyword.

Yesterday while doing my usual blog crawl, I noticed the mention of PC Names on one my favorite blogs, Empowering Ideas by Jason Drohn. For some reason, I had never even thought to look and see if there was a service designed to assist people with locating a good domain name.

I went to PC Names and did a quick search for my keyword. It provided a lot of choices, but none were dot com domains. As I’ve stated before, I won’t purchase a domain name unless it is a dot com name. Luckily, before leaving the site disappointed, I noticed an Advanced search option next to the search bar. I censored out everything but dot com domains and searched again, then instantly found the perfect domain name! It was actually better than some of the domain names I was considering settling for, only to find they were already taken by someone.

If you are considering purchasing a new domain name for a new blog, or maybe you have no intention of using it at this time but you just want to hang on to it for future use, I recommend checking out PC Names. It worked great for me!