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Have you tried to find a good domain name lately? If you have,
chances are that you had some trouble finding one.

Try to find a decent short name, and you’re pretty much out
of luck.

There are entire companies dedicated to grabbing up anything
that might possibly be worth something someday.

So how can you hope to profit from all of this, especially
with so much competition?

First, stop spending every waking minute trying to grab the
next loans.com, or business.com, or forsalebyowner.com.

Trying to grab a name that will make you millions some day
actually has a very small chance of actually working at this
point.

But, there is another way that you and I can profit by
picking up a few names.

One idea is to spend your time searching for names that you
can use to promote your favorite affiliate program.

Pick a few creative names with keywords in them related to
the program that you want to do a little better with.

A few examples:

To promote NextCard ( http://affiliatematch.com/nextcard )
and get $20 per new account, get a domain with credit, or
cards, or credit cards, or visa in it.

To work on your lifetime commissions from
Ken Evoy’s MYSS!, you can search for
names with website, selling, making money from a website,
or making money on the Internet.

What you are hoping to find is something memorable, but
also search engine bait. If you put together several pages
with reasons why your visitors should purchase the products
that you are selling, you will have a better chance with
search engines and directories.

Another idea is to grab a few names related to your existing
website’s topic, and point them to it. You should find that
this is an inexpensive way to draw additional targeted
traffic to your existing site.

Now, at this point you might be thinking that this is
nothing new. But what is new is the fact that the prices to
register names have hit rock bottom.

Plus, there are so many great tools available to you now,
for FREE that you can use to find great names.

Some great sites that I use are:

http://000domains.com - registers domains for $13.50 a
year, and you can register it for only one year, or up to
ten years. They are really fast, too!

http://www.nameboy.com - allows you to put in your
keywords and it will give you a ton of possible combinations.
This is great for giving you ideas of what to search for.

http://www.whois.net - has a cool deleted name search tool
that shows you names that were registered at one point in
time, but now aren’t. This could be because they didn’t pay
their bill, or they just changed their mind. Again, this is
a great tool to help you get those creative juices flowing.

Another option if you’re still not quite sure what domain name you would like to use, you might want to visit http://affiliatematch.com/unclaimed. They have a list with over 300,000 unregistered domain names.

Remember, the more pathways to your site you have, the
better. And this is one idea that you have a little more
control over.

So, you can either jump on the bandwagon with the countless
others scouring the databases for the next million dollar
name, or you can get creative and start earning some extra
money right now!