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Over the years we’ve been on top of many trends, from Spyware, Blogs, Blooks, tubes, and others. Buying trendy domains is a subject which deserves much coverage on its own (I will try to write about it soon) but today I’m going to talk about something I find more challenging, more intriguing: Conceptual Domaining.

What is Conceptual Domaining? Conceptual Domaining is figuring out TOMORROW’s traffic trends (generic/descriptive terms!) based on Today’s hot trends (generic/descriptive, trademarks).

A couple of examples are in place:

1.

2006: New site gaining traffic: YouTube

Site concept: video streaming

Term derivation: TV Tube, Personal TV

Potential Domains:

Primary (natural, generic): TVTube.com
Secondary: YouTV.com, MeTV.com, MyTube.com

2.

2005: New site gaining traffic: MySpace.com

Site Concept: Page creator, social networking

Term derivation: “My Place”, “My Page”

Potential Domains:

Primary: MyPlace.com, MyPage.com
Secondary: YourSpace.com, OurSpace.com, OurPage.com, YourSpace.com

A word of caution: You need to be extremely careful here with local and international trademark laws. My suggestion for you is to stick with generic/descriptive terms and use them in their related descriptive manner.

Source: Posted on TheConceptualist by Sahar Sahid -- Reprinted with permission -- May 1, 2008