Can’t think of an imaginative domain name? Try PickyDomains

Internet — Joe Anderson @ 12:27 pm Thursday 27 December 2007

Disclosure: Webby’s World is getting paid to write this review. I will try not to let this alter my opinion.

Ever had a fantastic idea for a website but couldn’t think of a catchy name? I know that I definitely have! PickyDomains are a company who will find you a catchy domain name which meets a specification which you set. Large corporations will pay consultancy firms thousands of pounds for such a service, but PickyDomains offers it for $50.

I bet you’re thinking ‘what’s so outstanding about a consulting firm?’. Well, PickyDomains lets anyone consult and pays them if their suggestions are enacted upon. Basically, a company will post the specification on PickyDomains website and users of PickyDomains will suggest possible domain names. If one of their suggestions are chosen, they’ll receive 50% of the fee ($25). If no-ones suggestions are used, the company will get their money back! Contributors are paid monthly through PayPal.

Companies can specify whether dashes, numbers or slang can be used in the domain name and they also specify acceptable domain length and domain suffixes.

PickyDomains uses Drupal, a FOSS CMS system, as we can see through the fact they haven’t changed their favicon!