Having problems picking out a domain name for my blog.

UnrealAlex · 11-24-07, 01:00 AM

I was just throwing random, possible domain names that came into my mind into the GoDaddy domain search, and all of them are taken!
What's worse is that they're taken by these...websites which are basically aggregations of links and ads...
For example, this:
http://www.angrygamer.com/
http://www.gamingsense.com/
I don't understand the purpose of these websites...they just seem like ad cows...and there's thousands of them...

thideras · 11-24-07, 01:02 AM

Yes, people create them to make money, that is all. If you click anywhere on the page, someone makes money off of it.

UnrealAlex · 11-24-07, 01:03 AM

People actually click on them lol?
It just seems like a shallow partitioning of the internet...

thideras · 11-24-07, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by UnrealAlex

People actually click on them lol?
It just seems like a shallow partitioning of the internet...

Yes. You ever see those commercials for "making money fast by using the internet", that is one of them.

drenader · 11-24-07, 01:25 AM

Think of it more as real estate. They own the domain (aka the real estate), and hold until the value goes up enough to sell or use.

UnrealAlex · 11-24-07, 02:37 AM

Arg, this is making me so angry

literally every name I come up with that doesn't involve a dash is taken up by these lame squatters, or whatever they're called...
I come up with a name that I think is brilliant and then bam it's taken

11-24-07, 01:00 AM	Thread Starter #1
UnrealAlex Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California	Having problems picking out a domain name for my blog. I was just throwing random, possible domain names that came into my mind into the GoDaddy domain search, and all of them are taken! What's worse is that they're taken by these...websites which are basically aggregations of links and ads... For example, this: http://www.angrygamer.com/ http://www.gamingsense.com/ I don't understand the purpose of these websites...they just seem like ad cows...and there's thousands of them... __________________ #1: C2D e6750@3.4, 1.41v with Ultima-90; GA-P35-DS3R; Crucial Ballistix 2GB; eVGA 8800GT 711/1750/975; Corsair HX520; X-Fi XtremeGamer; CM 690. #2: i5 2500k, Hyper212+, GA-Z68XP-UD3P, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, Corsair TX750M PSU, Gigabyte 6950 1Gb.
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11-24-07, 01:02 AM	#2
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Yes, people create them to make money, that is all. If you click anywhere on the page, someone makes money off of it. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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11-24-07, 01:03 AM	Thread Starter #3
UnrealAlex Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California	People actually click on them lol? It just seems like a shallow partitioning of the internet... __________________ #1: C2D e6750@3.4, 1.41v with Ultima-90; GA-P35-DS3R; Crucial Ballistix 2GB; eVGA 8800GT 711/1750/975; Corsair HX520; X-Fi XtremeGamer; CM 690. #2: i5 2500k, Hyper212+, GA-Z68XP-UD3P, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, Corsair TX750M PSU, Gigabyte 6950 1Gb.
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11-24-07, 01:25 AM	#5
drenader Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Austin	Think of it more as real estate. They own the domain (aka the real estate), and hold until the value goes up enough to sell or use. __________________ "Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred" -50 Cent
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11-24-07, 02:37 AM	Thread Starter #6
UnrealAlex Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California	Arg, this is making me so angry literally every name I come up with that doesn't involve a dash is taken up by these lame squatters, or whatever they're called... I come up with a name that I think is brilliant and then bam it's taken __________________ #1: C2D e6750@3.4, 1.41v with Ultima-90; GA-P35-DS3R; Crucial Ballistix 2GB; eVGA 8800GT 711/1750/975; Corsair HX520; X-Fi XtremeGamer; CM 690. #2: i5 2500k, Hyper212+, GA-Z68XP-UD3P, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, Corsair TX750M PSU, Gigabyte 6950 1Gb.
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