These tools together with your creativity and thoroughness are extremely important, because you really can’t expect to make a critical decision in your business without knowing what all of possibilities are.

Next after you have built a really creative and thorough list, check out possibilities for one of those phone numbers. Unfortunately, there is no short cut or easier way to do this than simply to pick up phone and call them all! Keep track of all information you get, and look for ones that don’t go through to an end customer or that go to recorded phone company messages. If it goes to an end customer then phone company can’t get it for you, so only give them list of ones that don’t have any apparent customer. That doesn’t mean that they will be available, they probably won’t but they are at least worth a try.

All phone companies work off basically same database so best place to start is usually where you already have an account. Then while they are checking on phone numbers, look into same possibilities on domain names. Remember, with more and more new ventures springing up every minute, space on net is getting tight and only going to get tighter but a good combination can literally transform your organization and even your industry! So remember two most important ingredients in coming up with right name are CREATIVITY and PERSISTENCE!

If this doesn’t work, visit http://www.TollFreeNumbers.com or just call 1-800 MARKETER. We specialize in getting 800 numbers when phone company says they’re not available.

Internet Explorer first searches for a domain name with a dot.com extension. If it finds one, it connects to that site. If it doesn't, it will search for a dot.net extension and finally a dot.org extension.

If you think you have a really neat name, and dot.com extension is already taken, but dot.net is available, it may not be a good deal. People are conditioned to enter a name followed by ".com" and if you have dot.net or dot.org extension, you just may be sending your clients to a competitors site.

We recently tried to reserve a web site and checked under several names, but all dot.com names, that we initially thought of, were all taken. Rather than settling for a dot.net or dot.org extension, we continued to search until we found one with a dot.com that was appropriate for our business.

Remember - when you do a "Whois" search, dot.com name is on first.