What Do I Do When The Domain Name I Want Isn't Available?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Luca, who is starting a website, but the domain name he wants isn’t available. What should he consider as he picks a new site? I mention Glen Allsop from Viperchill (http://www.viperchill.com/), Zen Habits (http://zenhabits.net/), Problogger (http://problogger.net/), and Entrepreneur’s Journey (http://entrepreneurs-journey.com/), as well as this article from Niche Pursuits (http://www.nichepursuits.com/goodbye-exact-match-domains-hello-brandable-websites/). The Patent and Trade Office is online at http://www.uspto.gov/. Do you have a question about starting your website? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPack.
0:04.0	Ask Pat.com.com.
0:07.0	AskPath.com.
0:09.0	Ask Pat.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 328 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:18.0	All right. Now let's get to today's question from Luca.
0:24.2	Hi, Pat. It's Luca from Ireland here. How are you? Thanks for everything you do. I have a question for you. Let's say you are
0:30.2	building a new website and you are looking for a domain name that contains only specific
0:35.3	keywords, but this domain name has already been taken.
0:40.3	What is the best practice for finding a very similar domain name containing the same keywords?
0:50.3	Would you use dash or dot or underscore thanks pat for everything you do bye hey luca thank you so much
1:01.1	for this question and it's funny because if you asked me this question a couple years ago it
1:06.2	would be very easy to tell you that you know should really, really focus on getting it right with the
1:12.3	keywords in your domain. But here we are in 2015, and really the overall thought in the industry
1:17.9	is you shouldn't really care about if there are keywords in the domain name. I mean, the
1:22.8	keywords help in terms of helping your audience understand what the site is about, but just think
1:26.2	about it. There are a lot of sites out there that you probably use when if you were to just think about
1:31.1	the domain name itself, it wouldn't necessarily describe what that site is about.
1:35.8	It is more of a brandable term, such as Twitter or even sites that we know, like Viperchill.
1:41.0	I mean, what is a Viperchill?
1:42.0	But a lot of us know Viperchill.com is Glenn Alsup's website where he talks about viral
1:46.1	marketing and things like that.
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