Have you ever tried to look for a good domain name for your company, one of it's brands, or a project and found the good ones you wanted were taken? Did you end up with a secondary domain name because you couldn't get the one you wanted?

Did you notice many of those you wanted were parked and not even being used? That may be because investors or speculators (aka squatters) buy up domain names in bulk like virtual real estate just so people like you can buy domain names from them at inflated prices instead of the registrar at the base price.

Google is one of the most common internet search engines known and used today. In fact, it's become the Microsoft of search engines and rules around the same 85% or so of the general search engine market now as Microsoft does with the desktop operation system market. As with Mac OS and a couple of Linux varieties owning a smaller piece of their market, so does MSN/Yahoo/Bing in owning a similar percentage of the general search engine market with the remainder holding just a small fraction of the rest.

Most people have used some form of commercial software, but have you considered open source software? Some companies have considered this and evaluated what we call the TCO or 'total cost of ownership' which includes not only software price, but cost of conversion and maintaining the software. This may include software upgrade pricing, training, helpdesk, or other support that may or may not be included in the software price.