If you are looking for ways to come up with domain name ideas for a new site, here are a couple of techniques that may let you get inside your creative mind and discover the perfect name.

First, I’d suggest that you take a look at an old post of mine which is fairly general (and maybe even a bit basic), but which will get your ideas flowing.

Finding a domain name.

Once you’ve done that, you can move on to combining words to get to completely undiscovered domains. If you can’t see this clearly, you can play it full-screen by using the button on the lower right of the box.

Of course, I mention Godaddy a couple of times in these videos, but I never really made it easy to get to them for buying a domain, so if you want to check them out you can go here: http://www.godaddy.com

Here’s that list of words that I used in the second video as promised. If you think of others, maybe you could comment here and I will add it to the list for everyone to benefit.

class
guild
academy
course
classroom
training
learner
learners
beginners
beginner
kickstart
boost
booster
starter
entree

Part 2 of an initial look at Domain Samurai. In this part, the keywords from part 1 are used to find available domains.

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The folks over at Noble Samurai – they make Market Samurai, have just released a new product and the good news is it’s completely free.

Domain Samurai is going to make a lot of people in the site-flipping community very happy. It contains the keyword research module from Market Samurai which is great for initial market analysis and this is married with a new domain module.

This lets you search for the availability of those keywords as valid domains and it does stuff like adding common prefixes and suffixes to the keyword to see if it can find an available domain name.

Here’s a first quick look at Domain Samurai….more to come.