Comments on: Tips for the Journey of Choosing a Business Name

By: Cubism Designs

Cubism Designs — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:09:38 +0000

It’s superb information and some what different article with different subject.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:10:35 +0000

SPOTTER –
It is definitely ideal to have all your social networks match your domain name though I dont know if it adds value to the domain but rather just helps you market it better. Getting your domain name for all your networks can be a challenge so the next goal is to at least make sure that when searched or talked about that your name will show up. For example take our twitter name – @_brandbucket_ we could not get our name alone (@brandbucket has had the name for a long time and we haven’t been able to get it) at first we went with the name @brand_bucket but quickly realized that it was easier to find us and to find who wanted to contact us through twitter when we kept the two words together and used the underscore at the end – hence @_brandbucket_. This is not as ideal as having your name but testing what reaches your audience best will help. Other huge brands that dont have their twitter name:
General Motors
General Electric
Comcast
Kellogg Co.
MasterCard
Nestle
Walt Disney

By: SPOTTER

SPOTTER — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:28:22 +0000

Curious as to what others & Caitlin’s thoughts are on owning ones name across all, or all popular, Social sites in addition to naming and .com names? For instance my company hammertime is hammertime.com my twitter id is hammertime, facebookpage hammertime as well, adinfinitum. (hammertime is just an example, can’t touch this) and if in the future, I decide to rid myself of hammertime, does having these other identities on varoious sites add to the value of the dotcom?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:08:40 +0000

Good article.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:23:36 +0000

I agree, it is very important to come up with a great business name. I have heard of some great ones discovered and with the Web 2.0 type names even more recently.
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By: Aran

Aran — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:58 +0000

Thanks for the great article, have been stuck finding a name for a new project. Have spent maybe 40 hours so far trying out every possible name. Usually it only takes 20-30 hours of research, but am stumped on this one, will be checking out your resources

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By: myows

myows — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:57:05 +0000

Thank you Caitlin!

I’m all smiles under my helmet.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:14:24 +0000

James – We would be happy to help! Browse through the site or shoot us an e-mail at info@brandbucket.com

Tyler – We are constantly adding to our collection of brandable domain names – follow our twitter (@_brandbucket_) to see these brands as they appear on brandbucket.com

Myows – Clever! The logo really tops it off an takes away ANY confusion about pronunciation of the name. In the technology world there is a pattern of self (.me, ‘i’phone ‘i’mac ect) so your name with the ‘my’ fits well with the technology industries and using the OWS as Original Works give you an excellent creative domain that has meaning. Good domain. Very BrandBucketesc ha!

Thank you all for reading! Feel free to drop us a line. A BIG thanks to the Envato team and TheNetSetter for having us!

By: Derek Overington

Derek Overington — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:13:21 +0000

Hi Caitlin,

Fantastic post with great content and ideas,look forward to your next post.

Cheers
Derek Overington