Re-igniting my imagination.
July 19, 2008 by Graham Doel
Filed under Life
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.
Rotating Corona on Sun, 20th Jul 2008 6:16 pm
Yup, that anagram site is fun!
Graham Doel on Sun, 20th Jul 2008 8:49 pm
Ha ha ha… that anagram forced your comment into the moderation queue!
Tim on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 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!).