Bad parking

My co-conspirator @timmyprice recently pondered how many great business ideas got shelved because The Ultimate Domain was parked. This was sadly not a random and hypothetical thought, but one established by our joint sub-consciousness over the last few days as he and I have struggled to find anything particularly compelling which wasn’t already defaced by some inarticulate, search-aggregating page-o-nonsense.

“Parked”… they read. Translated: “Hoarded”, and probably ultimately wasted.

OK. So we can’t get the domains we want. Bad luck I guess. However I’ve been entertained nevertheless inventing new words (the logical way around parked domains). Some of the sites I’ve been playing with are here – simply because they’re interesting. To me.

• Write Express (Free online naming tool… useful for rhymes and word-joins etc.)
• Morewords (Lists of words starting, ending, containing etc.)
• Dot-o-mator (Higher-grade word joining with domain lookups)

But don’t get your hopes up. ALL the cool word concoctions in the world appear to be parked. Fun seems to be the best currency in this game.

In the extremely unlikely case that you didn’t find any of that interesting, you might be needing some perspective. I can suggest a very interesting perspectivator (see… look what’s happened to me!) – peruse yourself over to the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs – especially some of the Greatest Hits posts. Genius wit. Uncensored. Now disclaimed.

Update: Found this about an hour after I wrote this happy little rant: http://www.stopdomainparking.org/