Dont you just hate it when

The amount of squatted on dot coms is amazing. Yes, almost every halfway decent name ever has been picked off already.

Actually for my new offline business(well it will also have a large web presence but its a brick and mortar business)

I just found a few good ones, its hard to think of an easy to remember brand name that is also available the .com

One thing I think I will do is name the domain , something else than the business name, which is a bit unconventional but nobody said you have to name your domain the same as the name of your business.

as to the one who said the domain is unimportant TRUE to get to number 1 however
since this is a business I will be shipping products to customers, its critical to have a CATCHY EASY TO REMEMBER, EASY TO SPELL ..... .com domain name, to take orders on, that will be printed on all the literature and packaging. Thats why it is a bit tricky thinking of a name.

I guess no harm in having more than one as feeders like I do with the resort but
my resort domain is not the same name as the resort name, (it is similar though)

Well, having the same domain name as your business name makes it much easier for customers to remember. If they don't remember the domain name, they can google the business name and the site comes up.

Why would you not want to have the same name?

By the way, what do domain squatters want, if they say "this domain is for sale" click here to inquire

100,500? 1000?
I am interested in a new name I found (yes it would sound great as both business name and domain name) but

its being squatted on

of course

I have heard that most of these guys are delusional parasites who try to charge thousands of dollars for any domain

The reason that they squat on them is because they are a bit delusional about what they are worth. They basically sit back and hope that someone comes along and needs/wants the domain bad enough to pay way over the odds for it.

lYa i saw one guy he wanted some innocuous domain, he asked the squatter the guy told him 9,999 dollars, or rent it for 1,000 bucks per year

he laughed

you can always take a great domain that is taken and just add a single letter to it such as X or i

bestsearchengine.com or google.com
as well as
bestcmssystem.com or wordpress.org ?

If you get my idea, I want to say that when it comes to branding - DiscountShoes is definitely not a good idea. Neither do DiscountShoesX.com.

As a user, I'd never open a website with exact-match domain. When I was younger I didn't know what is the micro niche business, and still never opened a domain like "thebestgamesforpc.com" ... it sounds like a SCAM. As soon as I get into the Micro Niche Business I realized IT IS a scam.
Furthermore all the .com/net/org domains are taken from these micro niche website builders.

Right now I am looking forward for domain names with "branding" rather than "exact matching".

I mentioned in my main post this is for BRANDING

not EMDs for SERPS
some just either dont read that, or choose to ignore that
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as for Discountshoes.com no I would not use a name like that for a brand, sounds ridiculous
I was just illustrating the non workability of adding x etc for branding type names, its absurd

but
there are a lot of Brand names that dont necessarily sound that imaginative, they sound like EMD keyword names, some people just have no imagination

isnt there a site called Cheaptickets.com?
I think thats a pretty heavy hitter type of site, surely an authority site

whats the difference that name sounds about like Discountshoes.com? same thing, both sound kind of cheesy, but in the case of Cheaptickets.com I think they are hugely busy site

Haha all the time! I went for like an hour trying out different word combinations for my new membership sites domain. The first name I wanted was taken and someone wanted 3,000 bucks for it.

You're right, the domain I settled with wasn't as good as the original one I wanted lol.