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Originally Posted by e9999
yup, used Godaddy. It's odd, when you think about it, that the mother of all registrars has a not-to-the-point name, don't you think...?
Interestingly, some (paranoid?) folks claim that if you do searches on a name, you will trigger some speculators snatching it up before you do. Hard to believe that this could be easily done, but anyway, you may want to practice searches etc with a bogus name, you never know... 
A question for you all: my "firstnamelastname.com" is already taken. But I was thinking that if I did "firstname-Lastname.com" with a hyphen that it would show up just as easily in the searches and looks better on the address and when typing. Thoughts? |
This is all essentially intertwined.
Godaddy has a great marketing department. Plain and simple. I still remember their fist superbowl "make me or break me" ad.
the "paranoid folks" issue is very real. I would only recommend searching for domain names once you are securely logged in to your godaddy account.
if you search on google, or have any sort of profile page, myspace, etc, there is a very good chance whatever handle or name you are using can get registered. I know it seems silly, but it happened to me on 3 different domain names. All 3 were very unique, but I did have them exposed online before I searched for the domains.
IMO, hyphenating a URL isn't the greatest thing to do. You can still get good search results if you do your web positioning properly (which, interestingly enough, godaddy has gotten much much better at providing as an add on)
I think for $500 a year you get their full on line web positioning package, and there are countless other
SEO and SEM options available once it's time for "as close to the top of page one" as possible.
Don't get discouraged though, getting high returns in searches involves a lot of work and constant supervision. Unless you're trying to sell something like dried up semen encrusted ear rings, which "should" be rare.
Enjoy.