Web 2.0. You’ve probably heard the term before.  If you are not quite sure what it means, I’m happy to let you in on the secret. Web 2.0 is a common term typically associated with any new website or web app, if you will, which is focused on information sharing, interoperability, and designed with the user at the center. Think Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or even this blog. Social networks and blogs are without a doubt the prime suspects of the Web 2.0 subcategory of the internet.

Now that you are up to date on the latest internet lingo, it’s the perfect time to hop on the bandwagon. If you’ve already got a blog, (preferably a WordPress blog!) then you’ve got a foot in the door.  Chances are now the only thing you are lacking is an awesome Web 2.0 domain name worth chatting about. It’s all right, thankfully the internet is always filled with awesome tools to save the day. That’s exactly where Suggest.Name comes in, ready to help you find creative Web 2.0 domains.

Suggest.Name is a simple, 4 step process to generating and purchasing Web 2.0 domains, and it looks a little something like this;

 The first thing you’ll do is select a prefix; for the sake of Web 2.0 discussion we will use the preconfigured option SuggestName provides – simply called “Web 2.0 Words”.

This gives us words such as My, Dyna, Blog, Flip, and the like. Popular names you’ve likely seen online already, with sites such as MyCoupons.com and DynaDot.com.

Once we’ve got a list of prefixes selected, we can move onto the suffix. This time around we’ll select the predefined list for “Networking”.

That list gives us words such as band, cluster, link, torrent… pretty much anything associated with two computers communicating with each other via a network.

Now that we’ve got the prefix and the suffix selected, we are ready to combine our words. Given the lists we’ve selected, SuggestName is going to try and generate us some trendy Web 2.0 related domains for say, a networking company.

Upon combining the lists together SuggestName was able to come up with 120 possible combinations to choose from anything from “Gabline” to “SnapNet”, both of which sound pretty catchy for an up and coming website based on communication and connecting with others quickly.

Hypothetically, let’s say we’ve fallen in love with the idea of having “Gabline” or “SnapNet” as our domain name.  The next step in the process is to simply click the names from the list and add them to our “ScratchBoard”.

The ScratchBoard is essentially our domain shopping cart. Once we have our possible domain names in our ScratchBoard, we are only a click away from having SuggestName automatically check if any of these domains are for sale.

Upon searching for this example, we find “Gabline” and “SnapNet” are both already taken for most Top Level Domains.

It’s important to purchase a Top Level Domain (known as a TLD,) because typically these extensions are preferred by Google and are more often than not seen by consumers as a more trustable source. Think about it, would you rather give your credit card to Mick.com or Mick.ch? 

On the lucky chance you’ve found a great Web 2.0 name from Suggest.Name, you are ready to purchase.  Simply hit “Select” and begin the payment process!

SEO Tip – Register your domain for longer than 1 year – Google likes to see this! 

Thankfully, with tools like Suggest.Name, just about anyone can find a little inspiration for a great Web 2.0 name in just a few clicks!