Originally Posted by Walrus

I'm probably out of date with domain names. It was important to get keywords in the name. Is it still important? So if I tried to get derekjeterny.com and created a wordpress fan site around this, would it help me in the rankings when people searched "Derek Jeter NY"? I'm just wondering how important this is anymore.

Side topic, but do any of do fan sites? Those wiki pages are so good that it would seem fan sites are useless unless you create a forum.