Same here, I uploaded my 4 this evening.  Do they really take 25 days to QC them?

Fingers crossed anyway 

I assume you register your domain with GoDaddy...

Nowadays you have to work backwards. Think of a domain/brand name first...

I used to run a web hosting company so I have a reseller account with eNom.

I've spent the last few days trying to find a name that isn't already taken.  I've come up with one and started work on the site, I must get to bed before 2am tonight though as I'm shattered!

  I too spent a few days looking through the online thesaurus...

I did the thesaurus thing too

Peat Bog, the trend is brandable over relevance ...

... In short, you don't necessarily need to have your keyword in your domain name. surnamephotos.com is no better than surname.com, though will always be more likely to be available. AKA Tom's name, Pegasi8, is a good example. It's very brandable. Perhaps not as memorable as amazon.com, but we don't all have the extremely-early adopter advantage of Jeff Bezos (amazon.com founder and CEO)!

So don't feel you need to have PeatBogPhotos.com.

I didn't think of the Peat Bog name as a domain to be honest, I only use it on forums. It's and old nickname I was given years ago.

I didn't feel I was important enough or brandable to go with an off the wall name like 'go daddy' or 'amazon'.  I've not used my name either, but managed to find something relevant to stock. The dot com has already been registered by someone in the Maldives although the site is not active. So I bought the .co.uk as I'm based in the UK.

Mine is issimple.com

I like it very much cause i can just append anything to the front as sub-domain eg stockphoto.issimple.com, photography.issimple.com

That's a great name very versatile.

Thanks to Lee and eveyone for the advice it's all been helpful. Now back to work on the keywords and descriptions 

Peat Bog

This is mine...

It looks like SnapVillage will soon accept images in the RAW format...

http://www.news.com/Corbis+move+paves+way+for+higher-end+microstock/2100-1038-6206035.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703

I've had 40 downloads on one site this month which is good considering I only have small portfolio. On Fotolia I had 1 download and 3 views!

What I would like to know is why is it taking so long for the keywords to work again?

Hi there

I'm new here and new to Stock, I've mainly done editorial type work in the past on 35mm, magazines, postcards etc. I used digital for a few years but only seriously for the last month.

I've joined some of the Big 6 and last night signed up for SnapVillage.  As other people have mentioned in earlier posts the watermarks are small and the quality of the preview images are very good. A person could easily steal a photo for use on a website.

I have a couple of niggles with regard to uploading - I uploaded 5 photos last night all over 3Mp but because they were all  2048 X 1536 they were rejected as the system will only accept a resolution above 2100 X 1500!

This evening I uploaded 5 more, I cut and pasted the IPTC data into the keywords field on the uploads page and started the upload.  After about 10 mins the screen refreshed but the photos didn't appear.  The I noticed the word error highlighted in red next to the keyword box.  I'd used the ";" instead of "," to separate the keywords and had to edit and upload the photos again - what a pain!

I dare say they will sort all this out in time, I'm sure they have had lots of feedback already.

Regards

Peat