A short and easy to remember domain name plays a very important part for a website. You want your visitor to remember your website and also not to spell it wrongly bringing them to your competitor’s website. I would definitely prefer to have raymond.com, raymond.net or raymond.org but they were all unavailable for registration so I settled with raymond.cc many years ago. You may have noticed that some of the registered domains names doesn’t have an active website because the registrant is waiting for a buyer that is willing to buy over the domain name at a high price. For example, raymond.net has a bar on top of the page that says “To purchase this domain, click here”. For the fun of it I sent an inquiry and the seller offered to sell raymond.net domain name at a whopping $29,000 USD! If I had to spend that amount of money, I would prefer to buy a new alternative domain name and spend the rest on employing professionals to do marketing, designing, custom coding and etc.
Other than the top level domains such as .com, .net and .org, there are actually hundreds of other interesting top level domains for countries such as .to, .at, .bo, .so and etc. So far I’ve found two websites, EuroDNS and Only Domains which is able to search the availability of all domains including country code on the word that you provide.
Searching for all domains in EuroDNS and Only Domains is easy. For EuroDNS, type in a word that you want to search, check all of the checkboxes in EuroDNS (Generic, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Americas and Africa) and click the Search button. As for Only Domains, enter a word, phrase or name into the search field, check the All checkbox and click the Search button. After a few minutes depending on the load of their server, you will get a result page showing you if the domain is registered or available for registration.
Only Domains seems to show more results because they include second level domains such as .org.au, .net.au, .com.au… As for EuroDNS, the results are more thorough because it shows registered domains that are available to purchase from aftermarket, registration restrictions, setup fee, and etc…
Do note that EuroDNS and Domains Only doesn’t necessarily offer the best price on the domains that are available to registration. You can perform searches in Google using keyword such as “.cc registrar” or “register .cc domain” (replacing the .cc with the country code that you want to search) and compare a few registrar for the cheapest price. Some registrar also offers discount coupon code so you can also search for them.
Good luck in searching for a cool domain name for your website!
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