Valid point. Now that you mention it, I
have tried to email people at the .com when I needed the .net, and I have also mailed people at noun.com when I needed verbnoun.com.
And, I have been surprised to find that if I keep banging away at it, I do eventually find a good name. I was looking for a name for a new site to host some Flash brain games I've been working on, and it only took about 20 minutes of searching to find a domain I loved. I had to make up a word, but there aint no harm in that, I reckon, as long as it isn't too long or too hard to spell.
