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How To Pick A Company Name

Picking a name for your online company or blog may be the hardest part of starting your new business. You think you’ve got the perfect name but when you rush to register the URL, you find that it’s already “taken,” more correctly, “parked” by some company hoping to sell it to you for a hefty price. Some registrars even get into the game: as soon as you try their URL finder to check if your desired URL is available, they park it and offer to sell it to you for more than the $15 / year it usually costs.

SO, just how do you go about choosing a name that is cool, makes sense, has the right feel to it — and is not already taken in Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc. (for you do have to also consider all the social media sites you want to use).

Frances McInnis thinks she has the right steps for you to follow in this Mashable article. She lists seven “rules” that will help you find that perfect name for your startup.

Read the article at: Mashable.