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Take the Pain out of Naming: 4 Brandable Domain Name Marketplaces

November 20, 2017 by Annelise Schoups 1 Comment

There are two types of people starting businesses: one of them knows exactly the type of business they want to start and what it should be called. In fact, they’ve already come up with something catchy and bought the domain five years ago. The other type knows they want to start a business, and they have a general idea of the problem they want to solve, but they have no idea what to call it. If you’re the latter, you’re are going to find this article useful and actionable.

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Annelise Schoups
Annelise Schoups

Annelise Schoups is a contributor at Rewind & Capture. With a degree in journalism, experience in public relations, and an education in travel, she is passionate about cultivating knowledge and storytelling.

Filed Under: Marketing Ideas Tagged With: brandable marketplaces, domains, naming

How to buy a domain name that’s owned by someone else

October 19, 2017 by Bill Sweetman Leave a Comment

It’s a frustrating experience when you come up with a great name for your new venture only to discover the matching .com domain name is not available to register. Don’t abandon hope yet. Just because someone else apparently owns a domain you really want doesn’t mean you can’t eventually get the domain. Here’s an overview of some of the options you have to make your domain name dream come true.

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Bill Sweetman
Bill Sweetman

Bill is the President & Lead Ninja of Name Ninja, a boutique domain name acquisition firm that helps global entrepreneurs, startups, and marketers get their dream domain names for their next big thing.

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Filed Under: Marketing Ideas Tagged With: domain brokers, domains, naming

3 Popular Websites to Buy a Domain Name

October 16, 2017 by Annelise Schoups Leave a Comment

A couple months ago, you recognized a problem and since, the idea has been lingering in your mind. In your spare time, you slowly start researching to see if a solution already exists. If one does, you skim their site, maybe watch their how it works video and before leaving the site, you visit their about us page to learn how the company came to be about. Then before you know it, after a couple more clicks, you are creeping on their social media handles to get a gage on their influence.

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Annelise Schoups
Annelise Schoups

Annelise Schoups is a contributor at Rewind & Capture. With a degree in journalism, experience in public relations, and an education in travel, she is passionate about cultivating knowledge and storytelling.

Filed Under: Marketing Ideas Tagged With: brand names, domains, Dynodot, Godaddy, NameCheap, Registrars

How to use prefixes and suffixes in domains

April 21, 2017 by Christopher Carfi 1 Comment

Just before you are about to fall asleep, you think of a catchy name for your next venture. You go to choose a domain name, like yourcompanyname.com, and you find that it’s already registered. You shut your laptop, go back to bed and wake up in the morning thinking “what now?”

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Christopher Carfi
Christopher Carfi

A veteran of both startups and the enterprise, Chris has a deep track record in developing customer community and evangelist programs for brands such as Adobe, H&R Block and Aruba Networks while holding executive positions at Ant’s Eye View and Edelman Digital, and he was co-founder and CEO at Cerado. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his family.

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Filed Under: Marketing Ideas Tagged With: domains, Godaddy, naming, SEO

Why is Donuts Called Donuts?

March 21, 2016 by Adam Lang Leave a Comment

The abundance of choices in the marketplace makes it more and more challenging to launch an idea that sticks. And even for those entrepreneurs that discover the next unicorn, like everyone else, they still have to name it.

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Adam Lang
Adam Lang

Adam Lang is the founder and editor of Rewind & Capture. He is passionate about creative marketing, design and brand etymology.

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Filed Under: How Tech Brands Got Their Names Tagged With: brand names, domain extensions, domains, gTLDs, TLDs

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