Episode 90: 090 - How to Pick the Right Domain Name (and 11 Domain Name Tools)

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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    <p><a href="http://fizzleshow.co/90">http://fizzleshow.co/90</a> - "I'm struggling to settle on a domain name! What I want is taken already. What should I do? Add hyphens? Use a .biz or .net? Help!" We get this question all the time. It's time we shared our honest advice and stories on it. In this episode we get into all the important domain name issues like choosing a TLD (.com, .co, .net, etc.), dealing with trademarks, choosing registrars, hosting, competitive research, etc. On the blog we list off a bunch of topics (and the time in the podcast we mention them) as well as a boat load of tools to help you. Enjoy!</p>

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:07.0	That one brought to us by James Davis' girls. Thank you, girls.
0:13.9	Welcome to the Fizzle Show. You know this. Too Many independent, cool, small businesses. They fail.
0:20.4	And in fact, too many never had a chance
0:22.2	of success. Why? Why is that? Well, I think because the people who are best at making something
0:28.7	awesome, the doodlers and idealists and drama people, the God squad, the folks who care about
0:33.9	something, they're the least likely to understand the basics of how to make something
0:38.7	people want and to connect other people to that thing.
0:42.5	And that's what we do here at the Fizzle show.
0:44.2	We help creatives and independent business folks figure out how to build their thing.
0:49.7	Every Friday, we publish another conversation about entrepreneurship, building a thriving
0:53.7	audience in the battle of supporting yourself doing something that you care about.
0:58.5	Sound good?
0:59.9	Your hosts are, if we were characters from Game of Thrones, Barrett would be Eddard Stark.
1:06.3	He's serious, loyal, honorable, organizing the pack of wolves, always doing the right thing.
1:12.5	Corbett, he'd be Denari's Targaryen, a brave, bold, and fearless leader who enjoys playing
1:18.6	with dragons and fire and frees the masses from corporate slavery and chase.
1:24.1	Naturally, that's me, would be Tyrion Lannister, funny, witty, insightful, enjoying life, a born survivor, and always speaking his mind and never knowing when to stop.
1:34.3	That one comes to us from Johannes Metzler from Germany.
1:38.7	Thank you so much for that great intro.
1:41.7	Okay, to the show topic today.
1:43.8	Today, here's what we're getting into.
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