Comments on: The Name Game

By: Aisling

Aisling — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:53:58 +0000

My current domain name is boring. It’s just my name, my reasoning being, if I wanted to change my blog name it wouldn’t really matter. But, well, it’s soooo boring. And *I* am not boring. So, today, I bought a new domain. :)

By: Vief

Vief — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:57:03 +0000

I used to have a boring e-mail address when everyone had a hip and cool one. Usually something to mark the randomness of being “alternative”. Things like “yellow elephant” and “addicted to cucumbers” came up.
Since I wore striped socks everyday and was simply obsessed with them, I made mine “gestreeptesokken” [Dutch] @ mailthing. Since I had that e-mail I wanted to have a personal address that went with it [so I went with gestreeptesokken.tk, and very briefly, .nl] but I figured that if I wanted to keep catering to the dominantly English-speaking international online crowd, I couldn’t have such a difficult, long, Dutch name. I translated to stripedsocks but that was taken, so then the hyphen was born.

I think nowadays striped-socks still represents that little part of me that feels connected with being different and having a domain that’s not boringly, selfishly just my name, that reflects me [the outer part of myself, my appearance is very important] and my love for alternative fashion [and just socks in general], and just the pure fun and randomness of life saying it shouldn’t always be too serious.
Right now, I like being the “[striped] socks girl”. I think the name Vief is a big part of my identity, but striped-socks is part of me just as well. I don’t think I’d want to leave it, because I’ve grown attached to it.

It’s always difficult to pick names for things [like Twitter, or LiveJournal] and a lot of times, when I end up with something random that doesn’t have too much to do with myself, I want to change it again and regret the choice. So I guess you should pick something that feels comfortable. In your case I think the name you picked is brilliant and probably a very strong choice to keep on using for a long time. :)

By: Lilian

Lilian — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:30:39 +0000

@inspirationbit: My pleasure, and thank you! The hardest part of this reboot was the name so I’m glad it’s enjoyable. Also, the amount of time I’ve spent on Dislexicon is obscene :x It’s highly addictive, so you’ve been warned.

@Amanda: I love your current domain. It reflects a large part of who you are, and is far more personal than the last I reckon. And a belated thank you for the link love and beautiful (by which I mean shocking) boobage :)

@Jem: In my opinion, the best personal domains are always a pun of some sort on the author’s name. Although it can leave room for error, eh Jim?

By: Jem

Jem — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:25:23 +0000

My blog name is just a play on my name; clearly I’m too simple to come up with anything else. :p

PS. you have a typo in your footer, I think. ‘thinks I like’ should be ‘things I like’?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:33:05 +0000

I didn’t put any effort into choosing my domain name – it quite literally was a case of “my old domain went down indefinitely, I need to buy a new one, okay I’ll name it after myself”.

I had it easy though, considering that I’m known by another name, one which highlighted a part of myself that I wanted to make explicit in whatever I wrote. No one could ever mistake “Jingwen” as being non-Asian.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:40:23 +0000

I’m always interested in finding out how other people come up with the names that define their business, site, blog. Lilula has a very pleasant sound to it and rolls of the tongue easily, so I think your name search didn’t end in vain ;)
Thanks for the link love and for other links, especially Dislexicon!