Godaddy and trying to find catchy URL for photography business

11 years 9 months ago #241964 by One Wish
Might as well ask this here too. How in the world did you find a catchy URL for your photography business? Everything is taken. I'm using Godaddy for my URL search, is there any other options?


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11 years 9 months ago - 11 years 9 months ago #241969 by KCook
The database for URL addresses is the same worldwide. So it won't matter what outfit you use for the search. There are always some of these registrations expiring. You may wnat keep any eye out for those auctions too. URL is a tough game, because your URL has to be unique, world wide!

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11 years 9 months ago #241981 by geoffellis
You mean domain name. while i understand the confusion, a URL contains a domain name, but a domain name is not a URL. Its kinda like the saying All Oranges are fruits, but not all fruits are oranges, or however it goes.

But KCook is essentially correct. each top level domain (*.com,*.ca, *.info, *.eu, *.au *.xxx and so on) database, called root servers, are run by different private and government entities around the world. For example Verisign, and American company, operates the databases for .com, .net, .org and a few others, where as CIRA (Canadian Internet Registry) operates .ca, which if memory serves is hosted at the University of B.C. in Vancouver. .au by an Industry non-profit organization called auDA, and so on

so when you search whatever.com... Godaddy essentially goes and checks with verisign and see's if its taken. If you search whatever.ca, it goes and checks cira. It works the same way no matter which domain lookup service you use. That way two people cant have the exact same domain name.

Your best option would be to find a different top level domain... eg .co is currently quite popular, although technically it stands for Columbia and its moderately more expensive than .com
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