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Author Topic: How did you pick your website's name/domain  (Read 3542 times)

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How did you pick your website's name/domain
« on: January 21, 2008, 02:23:05 PM »
That is assuming you have a website, and if you don't what would you name it?

I picked spazghost.com based off of that having been my handle since I was a nub back in middle school.

On a side note, I'm thinking of actually getting a new domain sometime in the future, possible keast-to-west or keast2west.com (keast is my last name, so I thought the play on words would be clever). I'm doing this mostly because I don't feel 'spazghost.com' would be all that appropriate in the professional world :P
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2008, 04:38:50 PM »
Were scribcakke.com and soupbandit.com already taken?
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2008, 04:50:23 PM »
Soupbandit sounds pretty professional to me.
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2008, 06:01:49 PM »
mmcrew.org

If you go you'll know the inspiration.
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2008, 06:13:52 PM »
I own/operate/host several:

gotthegeek.com
geekforum.org
pornorefic.com
hornyhut.com
homeworkhelpforum.org
carinsurancemegacenter.com
netscrapes.com
prestodog.com
jacktphilbin.com
poundofflour.net
enervation.org
tinyjunk.org
ukyou.net

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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2008, 06:17:14 PM »
I had one but I let it lapse and never did anything with it.
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 06:18:14 PM »
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2008, 07:13:38 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on January 21, 2008, 04:38:50 PM
Were scribcakke.com and soupbandit.com already taken?

To be honest, the soupbandit23 handle was just something random that I came up with one day. And I think I came up with Scribcake out of my sheer fascination with Morrowind at the time.

I had originally wanted my site to be spazghost-productions.com and use it as an outlet for the various flash/graphic design things I do, as well as a site that I could use in running my animation business in Second Life.

My only regret(s) with spazghost.com is having purchased the domain for the time that I did (I bought it for 4 years), and having taken so long to really get some 'content' up on the site, if you even want to call it that.

I think it might really be time to take down spazghost.com, or at least leave it up and set up a new site as my primary blog. Especially with my heading to college soon and from there the real world (hard to believe ain't it :P).

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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2009, 09:28:17 AM »
I think sometimes we are thinking about our whole name or our first name. or sometimes we are taking it to some domain registration websites... there are some domain suggestion tools too....



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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2009, 09:40:02 AM »
Let's recap:
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I do believe you have failed at your attempt to be a new person. I hope you try again (but only if you get it right this time).
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2009, 10:48:34 AM »
OMG thread necrophilia!
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2009, 12:04:21 PM »
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2009, 08:48:04 PM »
This is somthing I am always thinking about. I just bought zlstudios.net and am going to buy a lot of domains with the word geek in them. I really do not know how to decide which domain to pick, I would just register lots and keep the ones with the most traffic (If they all link to the same website).
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Re: How did you pick your website's name/domain
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2009, 11:39:06 AM »
That gets costly pretty quickly, to be honest.
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