So, you’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a new website or blog, but you’re having some trouble coming up with a good domain. Sure, you might have a few ideas, but all of these domains are already taken. PickyDomains is an excellent service that you might want to consider, because they offer 100% risk-free domain naming. And there’s something to be enjoyed by the more creative types in the audience too. Read the rest of this review to find out more.

Pick My Domain, Picky Domains

While you could name your website after yourself, like JohnChow.com or MichaelKwan.com, you obviously cannot employ this strategy for all your sites, especially if it’s going to be a Jessica Alba fansite or a herbal remedy e-store. PickyDomains is designed to help you come up with the best domain possible and there is no risk on your part.

Having already been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, PickyDomains is responsible for the naming of such popular sites as Aaron Wall’s SEOBook and Wendy Piersall’s eMomsAtHome. I guess they know what they are doing.

How Much Does It Cost?

If you choose to become a client, you’ll need to make a deposit of $50. This is the fee charged by PickyDomains for choosing your domain. This payment can be made by Credit Card, wire transfer, PayPal, or check. They accept a huge range of currencies, but if you’re using PayPal, they only take USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, and JPY.

Remember, this is a deposit. If you are not satisfied with any suggestions, all you have to do is “simply close the order and ask as for refund.” (They really ought to fix that typo.)

In looking for domain suggestions, you are asked to provide six pieces of information: what your site is going to be about, what extensions you prefer, what keywords are critical for your domain name, how long the domain name should be, whether dashes or numbers are allowed, and examples of existing websites in your niche that you like.

One area that I would really like clarified is the exact process of accepting a domain suggestion. GoDaddy is one of PickyDomains’ partners and they have an affiliate link in the sidebar. Is it required to register through them? What’s preventing someone from asking for a refund and then registering one of the suggested domains after the fact?

Make Money Suggesting Domains

At first glance, it would seem like PickyDomains has a dedicated team of individuals who work around the clock coming up with domains. Well, that’s partly true. As it turns out, anyone can be a contributor. The registration form is remarkably short and you are set up with a contributor account in seconds.

After you’ve logged into your contributor account, you can browse through the available orders. These are from the clients described in the previous section. If you suggest a domain that the client ultimately accepts, you get a 50% revenue share. This works out to $25, in case your math is a little fuzzy.

What’s great about the suggestion tool, which is built right into every order, is that it can automatically check the eligibility of your domain suggestion. It checks whether the domain is available, whether it has already been suggested by someone else, and whether it adheres to the customer’s guidelines. For obvious reasons, suggestions made by other contributors are invisible to you.

After you’ve made a few successful suggestions, they enter into an approval queue that will be viewed by the client. From here, the client can do one of three things: tag the suggestion as liked, tag the suggestion as disliked, or pick the suggestion. The first two are to help point you in the preferred direction. If a client ultimately chooses one of your suggestions, you will receive an email from PickyDomains informing you as such, requesting your PayPal information. They don’t say how long it takes to receive payment, but I hope that it’s near-instant.

A Solid Domain Naming Service

They’re obviously not the first company to offer such a service, but PickyDomains does a lot of things right. The $50 asking price is more than fair and they tap into the online community by allowing anyone to be a contributor. The 50/50 profit share is pretty fair too.

The next time you have a website idea that’s lacking in the domain department, I recommend you give PickyDomains a try. It’s great for creative domain-namers too, because they get $25 for each approved suggestion!

Normally, I empty my spam folder every time I go to check my email. There are always more spam than legit emails and most of the time, I never bother to check the spam folder - I just empty it without looking. However, last night I was wondering how many spams I actually receive per day, so instead of emptying the spam folder, I decided to let it build it up for 24 hours.

The 24 hours are up and I now have the answer on how much spam I receive in one full day.

While the number of spams are high, it’s not as shocking as it used to be. This is because my web host, BlueFur, placed a spam killer right on the server. The spam that GMail kill were the spam that got through the server’s spam filter. If the filter wasn’t there, the spam count would be over 4,000 per day. How much spam do you get per day?

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This post was guest blogged by Mr Gary Lee, who is an Apple whore.

A couple of weeks ago, I received a message from John telling me that he was planning to buy an Apple. Of course, this came as a shocker since he has always been known as a PC advocate and well-known hater of the music company that makes computers - Apple. It was soon after he explained to me why he was buying one that I realized his evil plan was never going to work. John told me he planned to completely uninstall the OEM operating system - Leopard, in order to replace it with the Windows Vista operating system. Once he was done, he planned to parade around town and on the net his portable paradox for all to see. Unfortunately, John just didn’t realize that there are powers in this world that control and prevent these anomalies in life. Much like how the sun sets west and not east, how birds heads south instead of north and how Forrest turned left rather than right to find Lieutenant Dan, the forces of nature steered John clear of his original intentions and showed him the light that is Mac. As an admited Apple Zealot myself, the next obvious step was to open Chow’s eyes to the highly pretentious lifestyle of Mac users and to show him the the Top 10 Mac applications every blogger shouldn’t be without.

Now that John Chow has made the switch, he has also decided to start down a path that many tech-savvy people have walked these past few years. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog, you will now see John with his nose in the air, driving a Hybrid Vehicle (most likely a Prius), listening to music he actually paid for on iTunes while sipping on a Starbucks drink that I have no idea how to spell. Instead of going to any more open houses, he will purchase a prefab eco-friendly home from LivingHomes.net which will be fully furnished by Designs Within Reach. To top it off, he will also now be using Teeth-Whitening Products to a point where they’re going to be make his grill frightenly white and begin blogging on Apartment Therapy!

In any case, these are my top 10 applications I would suggest for our resident super blogger so that he can continue this fabulous lifestyle. The following applications are awesome programs that take full advantage of the new macbook pro and abilities of John Chow the blogger.

	QuickSilver - No true Mac App list can be without QuickSilver. This is hands down the best applications launching device made for the mac and if learned properly, can increase your work efficiently exponentially!
	Ecto - As wordpress bloggers, don’t you hate the fact that you have to be online in order to write a proper post with graphics? Some times my inspirations come at the most random times and an online connection just isn’t available. Ecto is the best offline blogging software out there that makes blogging on flights back from Vegas or at trips to dot com Pho a possibility.
	Adium - iChat is great for video chat and screen sharing, but when it comes down to managing ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GChat and the hordes of other chat programs, there’s nothing like the open source goodness of Adium.
	Skype - I just mentioned that ichat is great for video chat and it really is, but if you have a business meeting and need to make sure you pick up every single sound and frame of your communication, then Skype is the way to go. I can see John using Skype now to do online interviews for podcasts or video podcasts (hint hint people) because the clarity at which Skype transmits is truly unrivaled in this market.
	Wallsaver - This application is purely to showoff the awesome power of Leopard. If you want to really trick out your computer wallpaper and wow people when they come see your computer, download this program and find some great screensavers to run in the background while you work. With John’s new 30″ LCD coming, he’ll definitely want to show off the graphics power of his new mac!
	ImageWell - On one occassion, John told me how much he missed his ACDSee program from his antiquated PC, so I went out and found him this program to help with his numerous amounts of graphic projects. This will definitely make resizing photos as easy as before.
	CyberDuck - The best open source FTP application out there. A great number of plugins which help make transfering files a breeze.
	SnapzProX - A screen capture video recording program that every Super Blogger needs to show off the newest tricks he has up his sleeve. It might cost a lil bit, but all John has to do is include a link to a manure affiliate program and the program’s paid for.
	Keynote - You know those monthly income reports that John generates for all of us to drool at. Well, get out the bath towels because when he begins to combine those numbers with the eye candy of Keynote, there’s going to be a new record number of comments under his next income report.
	Spaces - One of the great gems of the Leopard operating system, Spaces really kicks butt in helping get programs and mindsets organized to get daily tasks completed in an orderly fashion. I can’t imagine how many programs John is going to open with Spaces AND his new 30″ LCD.

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