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

Today is the big payoff for those of you who have watched the last two short videos (if you haven’t, shame on you, look here for the start)

Now that I’ve found a load of keywords and organised them according to my admittedly random criteria(!), I can now go and look up if any domains are available. Watch the video to see me reveal a couple of available domains that come straight out of this test run….and then go and register them quick.

The little trick in there with removing all the apostrophes and full stops will help the whole process run smoother. If Godaddy finds one of these, it gives an error but also expands out all the .com, .net and .org domain names in full in the search box……that means you have closer to 1500 names instead of the 500 you started out with and so the next search fails too.

Anyway, go out there, try it and grab some domains. Let me know if you find any really good ones (just the finding, not the name itself you understand.)

Back in the more mundane world, earnings for day 17 are as follows:

Adsense earnings 6c
Amazon UK earnings 37c – this is why you need to go for big ticket items….this small one paid me £0.25