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I think that Sedo and GoDaddy offer domain brokers that assist in getting domain names that are already taken ... in the meantime, try to find alternate domain names that would work, just in case ....


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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

Have you tried whois.com?
If you go to GoDaddy and search for your domain name, their site will offer dozens of similar sounding sites for your consideration.
By the way, it is useless to shop different registrars because they all use the same database.  Pick one and stick with them.


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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
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Ajaxwhois is a GoDaddy reseller, but I do like their "instant" check on domains. 


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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
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I was going to recommend utilizing http://www.ajaxwhois.com as well.

Is the domain name a key part of your brand or are you worried about indexing?




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Is there a reason that you don`t want to ask for naming advice here?  What is the domain you wanted and what is the nature of the business?


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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
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did you go to network solutions who is? http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

Also, for the time being if the name is multiple words can you just enter - between the words so that you can still get the dot com version i.e. www.my-domain-name.com

I have several sites like that but they still have fairly high rankings because 1. they are easy to read when people see the name and 2 they have strong marketing campaigns. In the end as much as it comes down to the name it is going to also depend on how they find the name in the first place.