{"id":523,"date":"2011-02-18T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2011-02-18T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T18:50:50","slug":"finding-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Finding A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running around stressing for the past two weeks trying to figure out a name for my freelance stuff since I’m getting back into that again. My first instinct was to go with whatever my friend, Dimitri, recommended. He’s good at funny, catchy names. He suggested a lot but none of them felt like it was the one.<\/p>\n

Then we moved on to choosing names that described the company. We came up with a few good ones but there was always something or other I didn’t like with it. It was either too long or too forgettable.<\/p>\n

Throughout this process I kept telling myself like one more day but then the next day came and I couldn’t choose. It was difficult.<\/p>\n

The thing holding it back was like if it got popular (yeah right) then I’d have to register it minus the designs at the end and then create a Twitter for it, a YouTube for it, a Yahoo for it, a Facebook, etc. If the minus designs part was already taken, I didn’t want to tread on someone else’s name. Those were my real stress.<\/p>\n

Today I had enough. I’d been rolling a name around in particular for like two days. I liked it but I was too worried about the above.<\/p>\n

Finally, I’ve made my decision. It’s over. My web development\/freelance website will be MusselmanDesigns.com<\/a> . I already registered it via GoDaddy (saved $23 by looking up promo codes) and DreamHost has already pushed the hosting. So it’s all good and this little debacle is over.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all who helped. I should have gone with my first instinct. I realize this name is pretty boring and generic and probably easily forgotten, but in all reality, I just expect to set up another website to kill time cause that’s what I love to do! (Web design, not killing time… Hey that rhymes!)<\/p>\n

So here’s a list of all the domains I have registered to date:<\/p>\n