You just have to go with your gut to decide what you think it memorable and what's not. If you are trying to rank well in the search engines, it is good to have your keywords in the domain name.
but it also depends on buyer, sometimes i buy domain name for 6 bucks and it looks better then the one was just sold for few hundreds..
Depends on what type of site you are making imo. If you are looking for SE traffic and dont care about return traffic then load the URL with keywords and hyphens if need be. If you are looking to brand a site and want return visitors then make it short and memorable.
I normally look for the shortest domain i can get on a particular keyword, and i normally use nameboy.com..it helps
A domain name is your own unique identity and always will be as long has you continue to use that name. Say for instance you hosted your free site with geocities and you found that you needed a more advanced host because your website was becoming successful. Visitors and links to your site would know you by the long geocities URL and you'd have to start promoting your new URL all over again. If you had your own domain name you could change hosts as often as you like and people would still be able to find you simply by typing in your domain name. You can promote your website instead of someone else's when you're sending emails as your domain name will be in the email address, for example is helping to promote akamarketing.com while is helping to promote and brand AOL.com. domain name because more people will be returning as they can remember your address and because many search directories such as Yahoo only index websites with their own domain name. Another advantage of having your own domain name is that you can use custom error pages to prevent people from leaving your site because of broken links and other errors. Domain names are so cheap nowadays that there's no excuse for not having one. Now that your ready to get yourself a domain name here's some pointers to help you choose a good one. Tips : - In the case of domain names the smaller the better. Of course short domain names are harder to find but if you can find one it has a number of advantages such as, it's easier to brand, easier to remember and it's harder to misspell. - Try to get a name that's easy to remember and sounds good. General words are best for this but since these are all gone at this stage you should look for non general names or combinations of general names which rhyme and sound good together. Take elephantdroppings.com for example that's an easy to remember name. - If you use keywords which are related to your business industry you will help your search engine rankings. What's even better is if you can get your actual business name or a name similar to your company name as your domain name, this way all your off-line branding will pay off online as Internet users should be able to guess your domain name from your business name. - This means you should avoid choosing domain names that already have similar counterparts online, if you choose one of these people could end up on your competitors site rather than yours because they got confused over the two domain names. - You should always aim for the .com version of a name, that's what most people will go to after doing a search or after typing something directly into their address bar, if you register .tv or .net or any of the other available extensions and your competition has the .com version then you've just lost a potential customer.
Lucky for me TonyRocks.com was available It just so happens to be the name of my company. Would anyone like an email address at tonyrocks.com? BUt, on the flip-side...somepeople think I'm joking when I tell them my domain name.