How should I approach buying my ideal domain name?
bensummers: You should also check some of the listing sites. We got the .com version of our domain via GoDaddy's "premium domains" rather than the squatting company directly. You can usually find the one you're really interested in by searching for a close match, and letting their suggestion engines select the real one for you without seeming keen.(We got the domain out of GoDaddy as soon as we could. They're a nightmare, they couldn't even manage to send an email and required phoning them to sort out various problems. But at least we got it in the end.)