Choosing a domain name is tough. Ideally it should be easy to spell, catchy, trademarkable and describe your business. PickyDomains is a website which claims to have the method to find your ideal domain name.
The site uses the wisdom of crowds — domain name contributors from around the world suggest names based on your criteria. If you like the name, it costs you $50—half of it goes to the namer, half to Picky.
This is how PickyDomains describes its naming service:
You deposit $50 and tell us about the site you need a name for. What the site does or will do. How many letters or words in your domain you want max. What keywords absolutely have to be in the domain. Dashes or no dashes. Dot com only or not. If we can use slang or not. Etc.
We dispatch this information to our contributors and you start getting a list of available domain names via e-mail. If you see a name that’s a perfect match for your website, register it and let us know the domain name, so we can pay the person who came up with the name. If you don’t like any of the domain names we suggest, we’ll simply refund your $50 upon your request.
Sounds like an interesting idea. Check them out. Has anyone used them? DialerQueen and SoftwareJudge did.
Want to join the crowd as a paid contributor? Register here.
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I’d love to see if this really works, but I sure don’t want to pay for it. I wonder if they have a free trial at some point?
….w0w…what a great way to be farmed for ideas - and I pay someone if they LIKE my idea! Even in the gotta-get-my-gimme-free-world-wild-web,any serious business-to-be would think twice before getting this Picky…of course, does anyone else see this differently?
I signed up as a contributor and you get access to the businesses looking for domain names. There were quite a few. You submit your name suggestions, which are then forwarded to the client who decides yes or no. If no, they get a refund, if yes, Picky gives half the fee to the contributor and keeps half. Not a bad deal for Picky. They let the community of contributors do the brainstorming and split the income.
There were a list of accepted domain names on the Home Page so evidently some people were pleased with the choices.
Just an FYI: The logo that pickydomain’s has next to their name is from the Drupal (CMS).
http://drupal.org/node/9068
You’re right Kyle. I hope this doesn’t stir up a trademark war.
PickME! Names is similar but somewhat different because they name books, movies, music, and other products. Check’em out at http://www.pickmenames.com
Anyways, if you’re a blogger and you do a write up about PickME! Names, you’ll get $35.00 as a contributor if any of your name or title suggestions are chosen for usage. I make $29.00 because I don’t have a blog site. Trust me, they’re worth looking into. Didn’t want to keep it all to myself. Best of luck.