Finding domain names ideas is not the piece of cake it once was. Once upon a time, domain names were easy to come up with. There were so few domains in the world, it was a simple matter of picking the domain you wanted. Sex.com? Love.com. Beer.com. Your own family name. It was all so easy.  That was then. This is now. Now just getting a four-letter domain name is a big deal and usually they are nothing more than acronyms.

So brainstorming domain names ideas is not as easy as it once was. There are two parts to coming up with domain names ideas and both are a challenge. One is getting the name idea and the other is finding it available. As they say, all the good ones are taken. Sometimes the taken ones become available again but they are usually costly running from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars when an available domain can be snagged for less than ten dollars. The best thing you can do is come up with the words that you must have in the domain name and then check out its availability with some of the online name tools. At some of the big domain name registrars these are built in to the domain search engine. So if your first choice is not available, similar available domain names will be suggested.

While some of the suggestions are pretty good, not all of them are ideal so if you are going to go seeking domain names ideas, it is best to choose the words you must have in your domain name and then play around with variations so that you have some control over the final name. The online tools are pretty good but sometimes the choices could be wider than they offer.