Easily Find Good Domain Names with PC Names

Posted by Kyle Eslick on November 7th, 2007 | Category and Tags

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!

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    1. Comment by Dining Tables on November 7th, 2007:

      Your blog could not have come at a more opportune time. I shall take your advise and I shall let you know the outcome when I get what I want. Thank you.

    2. Comment by Neil - Acopic SEO on November 7th, 2007:

      Couldn’t see the advanced search option? Site looks OK but I always use ukreg.com for my domains.

    3. Comment by Kyle Eslick on November 7th, 2007:

      Dining - Sounds good! I look forward to hearing about how it worked for you.

      Neil - Yeah, I noticed the advanced search option after I finished a few keyword searches. I actually just noticed that I linked to the homepage rather than the search page, so I have updated the link above to PC Names Search.

      It looks like ukreg.com is for the United Kingdom mainly, but I suppose that would be useful if you don’t use US dollars.

    4. Comment by Sectional Sofas on November 8th, 2007:

      Hi Kyle,this one is not specific to this post of yours, just a line to say i enjoy the tone and atmosphere of your blog: it is welcoming, friendly, informative and very helpful.

    5. Comment by Kyle Eslick on November 8th, 2007:

      Sectional - Thanks! It always means a lot when someone takes the time to say something like that. Helps keep me going each day :mrgreen:

    6. Comment by Mark on November 9th, 2007:

      What a cool site PC Names is. I’m definitely keeping this one close at hand. I also like using bustaname.com. It has some neat features and usually keep it open while I browse. As things come to mind, I just do a quick search.

    7. Comment by Kyle Eslick on November 9th, 2007:

      Thanks for recommending bustaname.com, I’ll have to check that out also.

      I also noticed when buying a few more domains yesterday that you can select them on PCNames, select which service you use. I selected GoDaddy (my domain registrar) and when I bought the domains through PCNames referral, I only paid $7.14 per domain, or double that for two years. Absolutely incredible!

    8. Comment by Zath on December 26th, 2007:

      I wish I’d known about this site when I was trying to decide on a domain name the other week, I was racking my brain for days!

      Cheers Kyle, have bookmarked for future reference!

    9. Comment by Domain Name Generator on December 29th, 2007:

      You could also try DomainNameSoup.com

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