I just had this idea since a lot of my friends seek my guidance when it comes to choosing a domain name for their venture.<p>$100 flat fee and I send you 5 to 10 quality domains related to your desired keywords, characters etc. Thoughts?<p>Thanks!
I gave a similar thing a whirl some time back. The fee was around the same I think but the first few people to sign up got a big discount (I was one). The names that came back were a bit underwhelming. From what I can remember it was a bit [keyword]box.com, [keyword]hq.com, go[keyword].com etc etc. Stuff that implied not a lot of effort had been put into it.<p>Now, sometimes those domains work well, but I'd like a bit of variation and thought put into it. Not something I can unimaginatively test out myself in 2 minutes.<p>However, for $100, is it worth your time?
I believe there may be a service there, but it would require more than "here are five domains that I think are quality". You would need some sort of statistical analysis or metrics behind it. What are the advantages/disadvantages of choosing this domain over this one, what are the things that attract customers into being more likely to click on this domain vs that domain, etc...<p>Not to mention, that as things like Twitter get more and more popular domain names tend to get pushed more into shortened urls where domain name isn't shown.
<a href="http://stylate.com/" rel="nofollow">http://stylate.com/</a> has been doing a sort of similar thing for a few months now.<p>Between that and things like www.leandomainsearch.com I'm not really sure if an opportunity exists.
I think it would probably be worth something, not sure about $100. But I see the biggest problem is trust. I would be afraid you would send me the top 3-12 instead of the top 1-10 that you found.
I think the issue you will face is agreeing on whether or not you have sent "quality" names.<p>I wouldn't pay for a service which is based on a flat fee unless there was some quality guarantee.