Arks
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It's time for me to get a domain name for my guest house website (thought I won't be posting a site anytime soon).
The building I'm buying was built in 1895 as an enlargement of the St. Mark Hotel here, which dated from before the civil war. The oldest part of the hotel burned in 1910, but the "new" addition from 1895 still exists and will be my guest house.
NOTE: St. Mark isn't the real name of the old hotel, but close. I'm not giving out the real name until I have the domain name secured.
We've decided to name the guest house "St. Mark Guest House". So I did a "whois" search for available domain names.
The following are all already taken:
StMark.com
TheStMark.com
StMarkGuestHouse.com
SaintMark.com
But I did find that TheSaintMark.com is available. Should I go with that? It's not bad. Remember-able, as long as people know to spell out the word saint. Adding "guesthouse" on the end makes it kind of long to type, and I don't want to use "BnB" or similar because it's not really a B&B and I don't want to mislead people.
I DO want to go with a .com address. People just don't remember anything but dot COM extensions.
dot NET and dot WHATEVERELSE just aren't a great alternative.
The building I'm buying was built in 1895 as an enlargement of the St. Mark Hotel here, which dated from before the civil war. The oldest part of the hotel burned in 1910, but the "new" addition from 1895 still exists and will be my guest house.
NOTE: St. Mark isn't the real name of the old hotel, but close. I'm not giving out the real name until I have the domain name secured.
We've decided to name the guest house "St. Mark Guest House". So I did a "whois" search for available domain names.
The following are all already taken:
StMark.com
TheStMark.com
StMarkGuestHouse.com
SaintMark.com
But I did find that TheSaintMark.com is available. Should I go with that? It's not bad. Remember-able, as long as people know to spell out the word saint. Adding "guesthouse" on the end makes it kind of long to type, and I don't want to use "BnB" or similar because it's not really a B&B and I don't want to mislead people.
I DO want to go with a .com address. People just don't remember anything but dot COM extensions.
dot NET and dot WHATEVERELSE just aren't a great alternative.