In my last post, How I Create Domain Names (Part 1), I looked at using the CONCATENATE function, (in Excel) , especially the shorthand version using the Ampersand (&) to join words to create 2, 3 or maybe more word combinations and reveal new possibilities.

Using Excel you can quickly generate different combinations, but what if you’re having trouble thinking of related words and concepts to use with the starter word? Read more …

This is the first part of a series about how I create domains which could have resale value even if undeveloped, or could be developed and sold and/or monetized.

I love using Excel to create spreadsheets and spreadsheet applications which I hope will save me time with tasks now and in the future. Domains demand a lot of my spreadsheet creation time nowadays; after all there’s financial stats, lists and all sorts of other information you can log and analyze.

I created my own ‘Domain Creation’ spreadsheet which I hope to gradually improve over time and one of the functions which I found to be useful in this case is the CONCATENATE function. Read more …

One of my favourite domaining tools is Domain Name Analyzer (DNA) by Domain Punch.

For those of us who are cash-strapped most of the time it’s free to download and use. I love it because you can put in a few hundred or more domain ideas and it checks for availability against the whois database. Read more …

Hello, hello, hello from the UK, the south east of the UK actually.

I think it’s fair to say that if you mentioned the word ‘domainer’ or ‘domaining’ to most people in these parts, they would stare blankly back at you, as they would have when mentioning ‘email’ before it became mainstream. Read more …