I am in the midst of indecision here. I have the opportunity to get my own web domain, but I can’t figure out what to call it. So I’m taking suggestions.
The purpose of the site? Part personal (travel, music, academic, etc) but I’d like to eventually use it for business purposes as well. Possible businesses include photographic services, assisting people with eBay auctions, and web page design (the most likely candidate at the moment). So ideally it’d be something not too specific, as I don’t know what direction to be moving into yet. As far as I know I’m still the only “avanutria” on the internet, but as hardly anyone can spell it and no one can pronounce it, I don’t know if that would be a good choice…
The contest bit? The person who suggests the domain name that I ultimately choose wins a prize! Now, I’m still dirt poor* and in major transition, so it’s not a particularly spectacular prize, but as a nod to my somewhat unusual item/post offering history on CF here, the winner has his/her choice of either:
A (never-used) book and instrument set entitled “How to Kazoo”, or
A really weird small six-hole reeded instrument from Hobgoblin Music, London. Five finger holes and one thumb hole. Hobgoblin didn’t have them anymore the last time I checked.
So send me your suggestions, please! I’m interested to see what people can come up with. Thanks in advance for your ideas!
* Dirt poor and still getting a domain? Yup. It’s a gift from a businessman friend of mine. My source of income currently is to sell off things that I own, but by definition that can’t last forever…
Ideally, your domain name should be the name of your business, one word run together or with underscore if more than one word. If you don’t have a name for your business, you could use your own name (you are gonna get spam anyway if you have your email up for contact purposes).
The typical thing would be something like “Ava Consulting Inc.” for the name (or virtual name) of the company you might have. “Consulting” means you could do anything Then you’d have an address like:
Don’t forget that domain names can be rather on the long side too. Some times a phrase is as easy to remember as a short name, or easer if it’s a complex short name, eg:
I agree with Zoob. When I FIRST joined the Chiffy community, I thought Avanutria sounded quite exotic and sorta sexy and I never forgot it from the first day. Its not that far off from Ananova, which is a website I have visited a few times for news stories. Good graphics possibilites too, with the V in there…
At the time (11/10 and on) , major posters were Avanutria, aremnius as well as Loren and Bloom and Bob Bakski and a the others. You can see which names stuck by my recall. I’m sure there were others who posted equally..
I think its quite a winner. But that’s just me (and Zoob)…so…you may want to go JUST the opposite…nyuk.
Just make sure you build the site. I paid for a name for four years and never got 'round to actually building it. It expired in December and I have been unable to locate the company who registered it for me.
Hmm. I’ve had a different reaction–probably because I had a childhood friend who was heavily into trapping nutria (South American swamp beavers http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/myoccoyp.htm ) for their pelts. So, I every time I see it, I think:
Avanutria.
No thanks, already 'ave one.
Still, that’s probably a rare reaction, and I agree that avanutria.com is probably as good as anything you could come up with without having a specific business in mind.
Names are always hard. I’ve spent endless hours sitting around in groups, trying to come up with names for bands (Dry Creek Drifters, Carolina Quickstep, Columbus Stockade), fonts (Gazelle, Paladin, Pendragon, Abilene, Meath), and software products (AME-Access Managed Environment, KISS-Keep It Simple Spreadsheet, InfoGenie, iData). These sessions often ended in hurt feelings and hardly anyone was ever fully satisfied with the results–even when their own idea won the day.
Then you’d have an address like:
