How to Brainstorm Domain Names

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Creative Techniques for Brainstorming Domain Names

In this section, we provide various creative techniques and strategies to brainstorm domain names that align with your brand and appeal to your target audience. From understanding your brand's message to using tools and brainstorming sessions, we'll guide you through a process that ensures you select a memorable and effective domain name.

How to Brainstorm Domain Names – Transcript

Hey everybody, in the last video in the course, we discussed five tips for selecting a domain name for your business. In this video, we're going to take what we learned and apply it to the imaginary barbershop that we've been building throughout the course. 

If you remember, we're going to call the barbershop “North End Barbershop of Bloomington.” We're big proponents of domain names matching business names as much as possible, including important keywords, and being short. Keeping this in mind, this is the list of names that we're going to take with us when we go to purchase the domain name for the barbershop on GoDaddy.com. 

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NorthEndBarber.com was the shortest way to include as much of the business name as possible while keeping it short and is probably our first choice for a domain name. Northendbarbershop.com would be our second choice, given that it's a little longer. 

NorthEndBarbershopBloomington.com would be our third choice. It's starting to get pretty long for a domain name, but it includes an extra keyword, as we expect a lot of potential customers to be Googling barber shops in Bloomington. 

NorthEndBarbershopOfBloomington.com is a good domain name because it exactly matches the name of the business. It is, however, a very long domain name, so we have a place lower on our list. 

TheNorthEndBarber.com is a name we would consider if none of the other above domains were available. If we end up selecting this domain, we would consider changing the name of the business to include the word “the” in the front. Thenorthendbarbershop.com would be the last name that we would consider without completely rethinking the name of the shop. 

So, there's our list of five domain names. In the next video, we'll discuss how to purchase domain names and a hosting provider with GoDaddy.com. 

This video is part of a step-by-step course that gives business owners all of the essential information to start and operate their business. We've provided a link for you to get access to all of the free and discounted business tools we mentioned in this course below this video. 

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