Re-igniting my imagination.
By: Graham Doel, July 19th, 2008
I have been working on choosing a domain name for an organisation that I am involved with and whatever we come up with it doesn’t seem to fit. When you are choosing a domain name you want it to be memorable, so that when you tell some one the address they remember. Having reached a dead end I used a couple of resources to re-ignite my imagination:
- Googled: “How to choose a domain name“. This wasn’t much help.
- Put all thoughts so far through the Internet Anagram Server. I love this machine. “Graham Doel” returns “Alarmed Hog”.
- Used a thesaurus to find alternative words. This was the most useful because it gave me set of different words to think through.
- Listed everything I could think of that described the organisation and the personality behind it.
Then I sent my entire brain dump to some one else on the team to see if some of my thinking sparked any ideas or chimed with their thinking.
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July 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Yup, that anagram site is fun!
July 20th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Ha ha ha… that anagram forced your comment into the moderation queue!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
Of course the best ones aren’t real words at all. And this helps, because most of the domain names using real words are no longer available. Yahoo, flickr, meebo - just make up a word. It’s all in your marketing and branding (if you have a budget for that!).