You should check out Keyword Explorer. Go to www.mytoolpad.com and you can download the software. Keyword Explored "provides a simple method of analyzing the keyword phrases you want to use in your web pages."

Just type in the keyword phrase you want to use in your web page title or heading and click Analyze. You will soon get a snapshot view of the how that keyword phrase is used by different web pages that are listed in Google. You will also see a list of all the competing URLs and the titles used by these web pages.

The best part of this software is that it helps show you prominent web pages that are ranking well for your keyword phrases as well as how competitive the keyword phrases are that you hope to use.

I hope that helps. My other advice would be to think short, catchy, and memorable and go from there.

Links:

• http://www.mytoolpad.com/

posted August 7, 2007

For general naming, I found this article about "How to Name Your Company" very helpful: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/biz/how-to-name-your-company

Bust a Name (www.bustaname.com) was also very helpful, and more full featured than Nameboy.

posted August 7, 2007

This is a new form of spam. Do not encourage.

John Nagle / SiteTruth

posted August 7, 2007

Make Words... http://www.makewords.com

posted August 7, 2007

...and if none of the above works:

Sit down at your computer. Close your eyes. Place your fingers on the keyboard and randomly clack. Open your eyes. Take your name from a pronounceable set of letters that is NOT a recognized word within the nonsense that is on your screen.

In other words, make up a word that does not exist in English (or, ideally, in any other language). Xerox® and Kodak® are fine examples.

This will give you a character string that will have the potential to become an enormously strong trademark for your company. Like Xerox®. Like Kodak®.

posted August 7, 2007

Remember: The best company names are those that (1) tell customers what your product/service does and (2) describe a benefit and (3) are preferably no more than three or four syllables in length.

Get a blank piece of paper in 'landscape' orientation.

Write down words that describe your business not as a list, but more like an ERD or class diagram...use the whole page.

Words that are close in meaning should be written near each other so they 'cluster'. Use a thesaurus to generate a lot of words.

Draw lines between words where you see a connection.

Take some of the key words (with the most connections and/or the most unusual) and start playing with them. Get a list of prefixes and suffixes and try them. See if you can combine a couple of the words you've written down.

Cute and/or tricky spellings of common words have the disadvantage of being hard to remember correctly. For example, someone who WANTS to find you on the web may not be able to do so if you've spelled 'blues' as 'bloozz'.

Give yourself a couple of days and I'm sure you'll come up with something cool!

posted August 8, 2007

I would check out keyword elite or any other keyword analysis tools out in the market. It is great because, you may find a good name through any of these methods suggested here, but finding the demand for it on the Internet is another issue. Sometimes, what you thought was a good domain name does not necessarily have high demand for it on the Web. Also, I know many people mis-spell a keywords and use it as a domain name, but it can rarely be remembered by people. In addtion, it would most likely will not be indexed by major search engines. I think you found a great domain name such as vFlyer. I tend to use every day english language for domain names.

Links:

• http://www.EbusinessStartUpConsultant.com

posted August 8, 2007

posted August 8, 2007

be sure to use instantdomainsearch.com

posted August 9, 2007

Contact people you know, tell them what the main ideas are for the business and get their suggestions....

posted August 11, 2007