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If you plan to start your own social bookmarking website, the very first thing to do is to choose a name for it. Below are some basic rules if you're looking to create a top notch bookmarking website:

#1) Choose one of the most popular TLDs. .com is always the best. Avoid cheap TLDs like .info.

#2) The name must be "very" unique. The branding is one of the most important factors on this niche. Some good examples are Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Squidoo, Kojaxx etc. Avoid long names containing common words (eg: MyOnlineBookmarks).

#3) Make sure that your name can be easily pronounced. Avoid strange letter combinations like Ekw, Dqz etc.

#4) Avoid special characters like numbers and hyphens.

#5) The short names are better than the longer ones, but the very short pronounceable names are really hard to find. If you get a 4-characters pronounceabl... » Read More

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What you should take into account when chosing a host for a social bookmarking websites is quite different than what you need for other kind of websites. Even the least popular bookmarking websites tend to have large amount of traffic, but they only require a very small amount of server resources. So what you should take into account is not the storage space, nor the monthly bandwidth, but the uptime and the reliability.

Unfortunately, all the hosting providers claim to offer "99.9% Uptime Guarantee", but they don't really offer this. According to the terms of service, you can't hold them liable for any server outage and all you can get in the case of big and/or often outages is a small discount on the hosting price that usually doesn't cover more than 1%~5% of your lose (eg: you get free hosting for a few weeks, worth about $2~$3).

So what you can do?

#1) Choose a host with a good reputation. It must be a very popul... » Read More