I am trying to find an easy domain name for my hand-made ceramic tile business. I thought of: MY-Tiles.com (M is for Mark (my Name) and Y is for Yvonne (my wife)), Bella-Earth-Tiles.com, Rare-Earth-Tile.com, DogDayTiles.com (I love my Boston Terriers), SouthTexasTiles.com (where I live), K-TownTiles.com (Kingsville; my home town). Please help.
2006-08-09 13:56:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
The naming of your business could be one of the most important decisions you will make. A name's originality and legal availability will create a real asset value of its own, as it becomes marketed and gains market acceptance.
The name you choose will become the focal point of all the benefits and features that relate to your business. Customers will be able to find and refer others to it in the future.
Since any names that are suggested here may already be owned by another party, I wanted to go a different route...
I suggest either hiring a name creation firm or get together with your friends and/or family and throw a "name party" & have everyone bounce some ideas around. Compile a listing of names that you like the best. Once you have that list, do as much free research as you can before you delve into comprehensive research.
I listed some links where you can do some preliminary name checking. However, please be aware that this is merely scratching the surface of what's out there.
Only comprehensive research will tell you if the name is truly available. But, these links are free & a great place to start, so I'd try them out first.
Comprehensive research consists of looking at marks that are similar in Sound, Appearance or Meaning in the pending & registered Federal AND State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files.
There are other sites that offer free searching capabilities in conjunction with their commercial services, so I'm not able to post those links due to the Yahoo! TOS. You'll also want to check domain names & yellow pages, so simply do a search for "free domain name search" and "national yellowpages" and the appropriate links will pop up.
Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
2006-08-10 03:33:28 · answer #1 · answered by TM Express™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really should create the domain yourself, but my advice to you would be if it is for a business, make it something original, if possible. Domains are purchased on a daily basis, so it might be hard, at first, to find the domain you are looking for, but with some time, patience, and thought, you should be able to come up with a name that will make you happy.
2006-08-09 14:08:11 · answer #2 · answered by tiravellian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I like something like southtexastiles.com because I think when you're talking about South Texas you're talking about a huge area you can locate to and if you're doing successful business in south texas you're going to be getting all the business you can handle anyhow. There's no reason to be all creative so that you appeal global wide. Pick something that the people you will be marketing to can remember and find easily.
Best of luck.
2006-08-09 15:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by streak_tlu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep it simple...and easy to remember...I can appreciate that you want to pay homage to your wife and your pets, but let's face it, your customers can't relate to that aspect and use it to remember your (domain) name...
TexasTiles.com
EarthTiles.com
KingsvilleTile.com
KingsvilleKiln.com
2006-08-09 16:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by classe300 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ceramik.com, though I am not sure it would be avaialble.
2006-08-09 21:57:45 · answer #5 · answered by fistfull-of-$ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is what you need....
2006-08-13 10:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by redwood1775 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋