Resident Tourist » Caught http://residenttourist.com Domaining & Life on the Web Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 No More Bad Hair Days! http://residenttourist.com/2009/05/06/haircut-reviews/ http://residenttourist.com/2009/05/06/haircut-reviews/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 18:14:41 +0000 Jason http://residenttourist.com/?p=773 A couple days ago I grabbed HaircutReviews.com from the daily domain drop. The day before, by coincidence, my wife was complaining about how she couldn’t find the salon a friend had reccomended to her online. For the local places she could find, the reviews were either non-existent or not very helpful. The next day, I saw this name in the drop list and, well, I couldn’t resist pulling the trigger.

Google shows some decent searches for related keywords:

hair reviews            74000
hair review            49500
salon reviews            22200
salon review            12100
hair salon reviews            6600
hair color reviews            3600
hair care reviews            4400
beauty salon reviews            1000
beauty salon review            590

All these domain names are taken, of course (except for BeautySalonReview.com which I don’t consider in good form). Here are a few of the registrants of the popular variants:

hair.com, WebMagic Ventures, LLC
haircut.com, RoboCut, Inc.
haircuts.com, privacy/parked
salonreviews.com, at Markmonitor.com

Haircut.com goes back to 1995. Check out the Flowbee! Ah, that brings back As-Seen-On-TV memories…

Back to HaircutReviews.com… a great name, a service everyone needs, and in good form. I’ll be building a review site using Wordpress, so stay tuned!

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]]> http://residenttourist.com/2009/05/06/haircut-reviews/feed/ 0 BocceWorld.com – Catch of the Day http://residenttourist.com/2009/05/05/catch-of-the-day/ http://residenttourist.com/2009/05/05/catch-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 01:45:34 +0000 Jason http://residenttourist.com/?p=764 Today’s Catch of the Day from the daily domain drop was BocceWorld.com. I love playing bocce ball. We used to play on the small green outside the main Budapest metro station between teaching jobs. A friend of mine had a really nice box set he used to carry around in his pack.

“Bocce” gets 165,000 searches at Google and there’s no abiguity about what people are after. Bocce.com is owned by the United States Bocce Federation and the other Bocce generic and brandable domains are owned by NetShops.com and a few other independent merchants.

At BocceWorld.com you’ll find a quick-and-dirty eBay affiliate store I put up in about 5 minutes. I’m improving the template for these stores all the time and will be highlighting more as they go online.

Play Bocce!

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