Kyle Griffith
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7 Services to Find and Reserve Your Name Across the Web

August 17, 2010 by · 5 Comments 

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Today I ran into an excellent blog post by a fellow New Yorker Sarah Kessler who is one of Mashable’s newest writers.

Sarah gave a great overview of 7 services that she recommends to use when checking the availability of  your name on the internet.

It is very important that you secure your name, your company’s name, or your brand’s name early on in the game on the various social networks you plan to use. Especially if you have a very common name like John Smith because you will end up having to use an alternative name like JohnASmith  and also have the problem or not being easily found be your freinds or clients who know you as John Smith.

When I first got started online I used namechk.com to check the availability of my personal name. It is very simple to use, just enter your name  in the  search box and namechk will find the available websites for your name.

One of my favourite services that Sarah talk about in her blog post is knowem.com . Knowem.com not only will search your name over the most popular social networks, but it will categorize the networks by it’s particular purpose. For example it will break down the search by blogging, bookmarking, photo, video, business, community, design, entertainment, microblogging, music, news, tech, or travel sites’. This is excellent as it give you an idea of which newtork you should join according to your companies marketing strategy.

For the complete list of 7 Service you can read Sarah blog post “7 Services to Find and Reserve Your Name Across the Web” courtesy of Mashable HERE.


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  • http://www.facebook.com/EricBurnettOnline Eric Burnett

    Thanks for the great Information Kyle… I will have to check this out. Keep giving great info

    Eric

  • Nick

    Good stuff! Thanks Kyle! I didn't realize that my name was so common. There are alot of slots already gone. I have to get on it. Thanks, I may have been out in the cold a few years from now.

    Nick Graff

  • http://www.kylegriffith.com/ Kyle Griffith

    Thanks Eric

  • http://www.kylegriffith.com/ Kyle Griffith

    Thanks Nick…Get on it before all is gone.

  • http://blog.ud.com/ Kate E. Hutchinson

    My name is also quite common, which is why I've started using my middle initial. Best of luck securing your name!

Kyle Griffith