6. Consider buying up some of the related domain names such as the “.net” and “.biz” versions or hyphenated versions and redirect these to point at your primary site. This prevents someone from registering these names and getting your spillover traffic when your site becomes well known. (But don"t go crazy buying up 50 close variants as that will get expensive.)
7. Spend whatever time you need brainstorming and really think through what you hope to accomplish with your blog"s name. A good free brainstorming site I use for this purpose is www.NameBoy.com. It lets you search for many related domain names at once, using selects such as hyphens or no hyphens and synonyms.
8. Consider buying an existing name if the one you really want is taken but isn "t being used or is being used badly (that is, not developed). You can make an offer through online services such as www.NetworkSolutions.com and you may be surprised at how inexpensively you can purchase a good name.
This is especially true if the person who owns it is not savvy about its value or isn"t using it in any serious way. So make an offer and see what happens.(The best situation is a site that has been online a long time, since Google rewards sites from an SEO perspective for the amount of time they have been in existence.)
Registering Your Domain Name
There are many places to register your domain name. You can register it at the same place you expect to host your site, or you can register it elsewhere and merely point the “nameservers” towards your host account.