As 40,000 plus domain names are registered each and every day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get your hands on a .COM domain name. If you havn't registered your name yet, you may want to consider doing a search and grabing your name in cyberspace.

If your name is John Smith, you are probably out of luck in registering www.johnsmith.com but its worth a search to check if you name is taken. Even if you don't have a web site, its a good idea to grab ownership of your name before someone else does. Why register your name as a domain name? Well, it is your name and you might as well own it. You can set up a family web site, your resume or a simple weblog. Either way, its better that you own your name rather than someone else. 

Start you search at www.freshnames.biz, they will let you forward your URL to another site or page or you can just park it till your ready to use it.