There is a sleep talker blog that is taking the world by storm. The site is called "Sleep Talkin Man" and the owners of the site sadly used a blogspot sub-domain for the site at sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com .
The people behind the site are a married couple and the man happens to talk in his sleep. Not only talk, dude says some seriously funny stuff! Tons of one liners that any comedian would die for coming up with really! Read it, you will laugh your ass off. Be sure to click "older posts" on the bottom right of the home page to see older entries.
Dude says some crazy stuff in his sleep!!!!
From a domain name aspect, in late December of 2009 they did register the domain name SleepTalkinMan.com which forwards to the blogspot page but the first entry to the blog is Feb 19, 2009. So it took a good 10 months before they noticed the importance of owning the .com domain and took the easy way in and used Blogspot. You lose a lot of control but it is easy to use.
I would of used WordPress myself (here is how to install a wordpress blog if you are not sure how to), as it’s free and you have nearly unlimited control and options with WordPress. Not a sub-domain on WordPress, get a hosting account and load it directly on your server!
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Since "Talkin" is really slang, they should of also registered SleepTalkingMan.com with the G in it for those who type in the "normal way".
The couple failed to register the domain with the G in it but somebody else was sure to register it and it does get some traffic.
Another domain they could register is SleepTalkerBlog.com (currently available) because that is the "natural term" a lot of people are searching for. Also likely to get traffic, looking for the site.
Now it’s hard to tell exactly what the natural search term will be, but it should not be that hard to decide. Sound it out, think how YOU would search for such a site.
SleepTalkerBlog.com makes perfect sense. SleepTalkerBlog.co.uk makes sense as well since they are from the UK.
Anyway, funny ass site so check it out. Secondly, I hope I explained a couple things about domains and using WordPress to help as well. Read all around DotWeekly.com and you will learn just about every thing you can about domain names, internet marketing, branding and much more.
Ms Domainer
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You can also create a custom domain for blogger via a CName alias. Blogger offers instructions for all the major registrars.
Here are the basic instructions:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373
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Damir Tankovic
U are spot on a domain name relevant to the subject the website is about is important.