If you're making a living (or wanting to) by distributing your bits over the Internet one of the first things you need to do, after you decide what you want to make, is pick the perfect name for your venture.  In the modern age it's more difficult than it used to be.  In the past you just had to come up with a great name.  Now, you not only need to come up with a great name, you need to make sure the matching domain name is available!

The folks over at www.PickyDomains.com claim

  • "If you need a great, memorable, easy to pronounce domain name that EXACTLY describes what your website is all about - you are in the right place. This is what we do. We find available domain names that are descriptive, concise and are easily remembered. And if we can’t find one, or you don’t like any available domain names we suggest – you don’t pay anything. PickyDomains.Com is completely RISK FREE."

Here's how their service works:. You deposit $50 and tell them about the site you want to name and 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, can they use slang or not, etc.

There are two cool things about this service:

  • First, they dispatch your request to actual humans who do the research and then you start getting a list of available domain names via e-mail. If you like any of the names, you register it and tell PickyDomains.com so they can pay the person who came up with the name.
  • Second, If you don’t like any of the domain names we suggest, they will refund your $50 upon your request. They only get paid if they can find a domain that you register.

 Here are some of their success stories:

Disclosure: I have no interest in PickyDomains I just think it is a very cool idea and a service whose time has arrived!