People sometimes think THIS is my name and I have to get EXACTLY that. It’s great if you can get exactly what you’re looking for but that’s usually not the case. And sometimes by adding something extra to the vanity word or by taking something extra away, you can make a vanity number mean a lot more or work better.
888-QUIT TAX is also 888-QUIT TAXING US
and 877-WEB-SITE-DESIGN is actually 877-WEBSITE.
Anything after 7 digits is ignored so in our phone number for example, 1-800 MARKETER, the last R isn’t necessary. It doesn’t usually matter if they enter it or not the calls just go through. That means you can also add something if you need to, as a customer did on a call earlier this morning that suggested changing 888-QUIT TAX into 888-QUIT-TAXING US, which he wanted for a tax referendum promotion they were starting.
The point is that, like the Rolling Stone song says, “you can’t always get what you want…” Fortunately you don’t have to marry a super model to be happy or drive a Ferrari to get where you want to go. Sometimes things just don’t fit perfectly into 7 digits. Don’t be afraid to add something in front of what you thought of first. It doesn’t mean you can’t still try to get and use the perfect number. You can always add that too if you get it down the road. But just because you can’t get the perfect domain name doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make a website and if you can’t marry your super model fantasy doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever get married.
The third box of the search results with other Possibilities tries to help you find other options. Some may be too long but they can be shortened or you can add a different ending. Whatever you’re looking for one of the keys is to be creative. We’ll help you and like the song say, you may not get what you want, but we’ll but, “…if you try sometime you find, You get what you need!”