Domain Name Doom
Imagine a world where you could only name your baby with a name never used before. Everybody would be more unique. But pity the parents who had to come up with a name after all the popular ones like Lucy and Jack were gone. Being born later in the world would result in names such as Xxxoomph72. School attendance would take much longer.
The online world and .com domain naming is much like the above scenario. There were more than 162 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) at the end of the first quarter of 2008 and domain name registrations grew 26 percent year over year, according to VeriSign's Domain Name Industry Brief. The challenge is to register a simple domain name for your business or spend big dollars to secure a name from cyber squatters.
A recent scan of Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites for 2008 reveals a multitude of newly formed words to counter the simple domain name shortage. Name concoctions for the coolest sites include: ffffound.com, someecards, and imeem.com. Not exactly easy to remember but the simple phrases are gone. Finding the right domain name is a process not to take lightly. With the continued rise of .com domain registrations, the future only holds more Xxxomph72's than Buy.com's.
Yes, it’s getting harder to register a short, meaningful and eye-catching domain. A good domain name helps with business recognition. Yet on the other hand, it’s the business itself to make the domain better known.
It is hard to find some of the shorter ones, but a little creativity can go a long way. If you product is not unique enough to have an unique domain, you may want to review the business plan.
I agree that it is quite hard to find memorizeable domain names, but there are solutions like the wnrp:// protocol and its addresses. Lets see how the internet changes with solutions like that.