Willing to pay a bounty for finding a good domain name

[jbischke]

Hey all. We've been looking for a domain name for our newest website for the last six months or so. We've used services like PickyDomains and BustAName and while they are quite useful they only are good for finding domain names that are available. We've realized that we likely need to pay for a domain name and have a budget of $1k-$5k to do this.

We're willing to pay up to 20% as a finder's fee for anyone who is able to locate and negotiate a price for a domain name that we ultimately use. In other words, if we secure a domain name for $5k we'd pay the person who found that name for us $1k. What I'm wondering is the best way to find people who might be willing to take on such an opportunity.

Are there any services like this? Has anyone tried posting requests like this in other places like Craig's List? I think this would be a great biz opp by the way.

[Dan.Linehan]

Yep, I'll do it. I own 500 domains and have sold and bought several for over 3k.

PM me what you're looking for.

[Dan.Linehan]

None of these were any good?

Suggestions for naming our company

[Caveman Joe]

What sort of website are we talking, here?

[jbischke]

The link Dan posted does a pretty good job of describing it.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by jbischke

The link Dan posted does a pretty good job of describing it.

Not really...

It didn't say what your going to offer, I know some of that may be secretive at this point in time, but it ties into company branding, color scheming, logos, site design, stationary design, etc... Are you going to offer different product lines..? Is this education really revolutionary...? what makes it revolutionary...? Nothing has been said of what your offering or planning on offering... (books, information (what kind), tutorials, video tutorials, interactive learning, etc...)

Anybody can just throw out names, which if that is what your looking for great... But, your business so much more that just a name... The name should tie into what your planning on offering or are offering. With out knowing / understanding this information it makes name suggestions arbitrary...

Simple and memorable is the best way to go (in my opinion)...

Sorry if this sounds harsh, it's not meant to...

[InterfaceLeader]

There were a lot of good domain names in that link :P

Having spent two weeks figuring out the domain name for my own up-coming business, I have one piece of advice - make a decision and stick with it. The best domain is just a one word .com name that is spelled properly :P But there's not many of them left. Trying to get too clever or funky just leads to problems.

[jbischke]

It's not harsh. I'm just not really able to say a lot about what we're doing at this stage as we are still pre-launch. I realize of course that that makes it harder to give good suggestions. Think web-based person-to-person learning and you'll have a pretty good sense of what we're doing. I hope that helps...

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Not really...

It didn't say what your going to offer, I know some of that may be secretive at this point in time, but it ties into company branding, color scheming, logos, site design, stationary design, etc... Are you going to offer different product lines..? Is this education really revolutionary...? what makes it revolutionary...? Nothing has been said of what your offering or planning on offering... (books, information (what kind), tutorials, video tutorials, interactive learning, etc...)

Anybody can just throw out names, which if that is what your looking for great... But, your business so much more that just a name... The name should tie into what your planning on offering or are offering. With out knowing / understanding this information it makes name suggestions arbitrary...

Simple and memorable is the best way to go (in my opinion)...

Sorry if this sounds harsh, it's not meant to...

[Lil Chris]

Here's some ideas based off what you provided...

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Education Revolution, Inc.

Think web-based person-to-person learning

Their ideas...
smartr.com
newgurus.com
iGenius.com
etc.


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My Ideas - resembles a "Tutor" type situation

SKILLTUTORS.COM $3,100.00*
NationalEdu.com $4,450.00*
TUTORREVOLUTION.COM (cost of domain)
GO-TUTOR.COM (cost of domain)
EDU-TUTOR.COM (cost of domain)
EDUINSTRUCTOR.COM (cost of domain)
EDUEDUCATOR.COM (cost of domain)
EDUTUTORLIVE.COM (cost of domain)
EDUTUTORPRO.COM (cost of domain)
EDU-TUTORSITE.COM (cost of domain)
EDUTUTORONLINE.COM (cost of domain)
I-TUTORONLINE.COM (cost of domain)
TUTOR-EXPERTS.COM (cost of domain)

[jbischke]

Thanks Chris. Actually we've decided that we don't want "tutor" or "edu" in our name. Tutor because it limits us a bit. Edu because many people have a negative connotation around education.

[Lil Chris]

That might have been useful information ahead of time...

Good luck with your endeavor!

[Tayrak]

Dan, would you have an article or something that explains exactly how you buy and sell domains. Sounds interesting.

[Dan.Linehan]

I use Psychic Whois, Go Daddy, TD Nam and Pool accounts.

[katerlynn]

I don't know a darn thing about selling or wheeling and dealing domain names. I once spent a night fooling around trying to create a few names and I came up with killbaby.com. Don't know how marketable that one is though a neighbor in my apartment complex likes it alot. I recall there being some type of domain name evaluator or assessor of some type. It would appraise your domain name and attach a dollar value to it. Alot of the names I came up with were worth alot of money, supposedly. I was pretty excited that night but later I came to realize that the programs that appraise domain names are pretty much worthless. So much for that.

I'm disabled and on disablility. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to supplement my income with an extra 250 dollars a month using my computer and the Internet. Nothing more, nothing less. An extra 250 dollars a month would be great. Due to my disability I really don't want to sell any tangible goods. I can't go back and forth to the post office every day the way some eBayers do.

When it comes to domain names I think the people who run that new website, kijiji.com, really blew it by picking that name. I believe kijiji.com is run by eBay. They hope to become the next Craigslist. I think eBay owns 25% of Craigslist or something like that. Nothing like picking out a name, a foreign name at that, that most Americans can't spell when they hear that name for the very first time. Unless of course they're fluent in Japanese.