Comments on: Need suggestions for a domain name

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:30:32 +0000

I lean toward your name. I would have used mine, but no one knows how to spell it. markthoughts is good.

It’s not so hard to do. I do like laughing squid a lot since 1. they are indie, 2. they have AMAZING FAQs and interfaces if you aren’t as cool as Richard, and 3. they give you good discounts for linking to them on your site, which I do. And I think I get some discount if you say I sent you, but I don’t buy that that’s true, since I haven’t seen a red cent from Richard’s conversion.

By: walt

walt — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:53:37 +0000

CW beat me to it: .info is a reasonable alternative. You might note the new address for Cites & Insights, citesandinsights.info or cical.info. (cites.info is held by a domain speculator)

I like Richard’s suggestion of “Off the Mark” as an actual blog name, possibly at marklindner.info. Nicely quirky.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:19:50 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:31:09 +0000

How about “Off the Mark”

I recently followed jb to Laughing Squid (http://www.laughingsquid.com) and have been happy with the service so far. The only disappointment is that they don’t allow shell access, so you have to do everything through their Plesk interface. It works reasonably well, but I move a little quicker off the command line.

Musematic is on LISHost and Blake is a very attentive provider.

Shout if you need any WordPress advice.

By: CW

CW — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:29:28 +0000

Having just recently looked for a domain name for our group blog (librariesinteract.info), have you also investigated the .info options? Assuming it’s available, you could have marklindner.info – “Mark Lindner Info”, which is kinda cool (or should that be hot?).