Web developers worrry about scarcity of marketable dot-com domain names

[mandy]

It's getting harder and harder to find a marketable dot-com domain name and that's starting to worry Web developers, according to Dotster.

... developers are concerned about running out of marketable dot-com names completely.

To date, over 70 million dot-com names have been purchased, and most, if not all, one word domain names have been taken on a global plane...

"The shortage of marketable domain names has led consumers to select alternatives that are difficult for their potential visitors to remember, or do not adequately describe the brands," it noted. "These domain names result in a lack of robust traffic to the site, confirming customers' insecurities about the value of creating Web sites." ...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/D6BM40gZ...ught.xhtml

[misteroriginal]

This is sooooooo true, but I try not to fret. You have to be nutty, imaginative, and drunk, but it's still quite possible to come up with some good ones.