What's in a name?

Brady Creel said:

I went through a similar situation last month... trying to come up
with a name for a Website that has some personality and
functionality.

I decided on agtadiurna.com ... go to my site to learn what it means.

But in considering the many, many names on my "list" of ideas, I
realized that it's important to integrate and adapt old ideas in a
new way (what I did). I wanted something obscure that had a
specific meaning in relation to my interests and what I like to do.

For instance (this may sound cheesy), have you thought adapting
some musical term/jargon? Something like "TrebleClefPhoto.com" ...
"BassClefPhoto.com" ...? Go with something that makes a statement
about what you do, who you are and what your business is all about.

This may be a pointless post, but I'm in a strange mood today.

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DavidP said:

I've decided that I should get another website for myself. One
that'll be just for my photos that I think are some of my best, and
to use along with any future business I may set up. Initially I'd
just have business cards set up with this company name, that would
have the URL on it. Along with an email like
[email protected] or [email protected] .. I'd set
up this email account to just forward to my real email account.

PS -- readyhosting.com seems to have a pretty good deal. $99 a
year for 500 MB of space, unlimited bandwith (unless you start
shutting down the server -- LOL -- so no porn sites, probably),
unlimited emails, AND they pay for your registration (as long as
it's a new name that they set up).

Now for the hard part. Coming up with a name.

I could always "steal" from Steve Mitchell and use something lilke
DigiConcertPix.com . . . . but he'd probably sue me!

Or I could try something more clever like TwangThangPhotos.com . .
. but a songwriter in Nashville already has TwangThang as his band
name and publishing name.

But, those two names show the two different conflicting types of
names I'm considering:

1) a name that basically says what I do (concert photography)

2) a name that's a bit more clever, and is geared more towards the
type of music I like to photograph

I'd love to combine the two styles, but I'm not quite sure how well
that'd turn out. TwangThangConcertPix.com . . . . hmmmmmmmm.

That works (I wouldn't use TwangThang because I know somebody that
has it . . . but you get the picture), but then I have an awfully
long URL name.

Thoughts?

I'm leaning, I guess, towards something like the latter, even
though it means a long URL name.

If I chose a name (let's use Twang Thang as an example), would it
be advisable to have the name of the business be

Twang Thang Photography and Video (the "and video" I'm still
thinking about), but a URL name of TwangThangConcertPix.com ?

Or is it better to have the URL name and the business name match
more closely?

eg,

Twang Thang Photo

and

TwangThangPhoto.com

?

--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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OU_WxGuesser said:

IF your on a decent broadband connection, just make your own server
with unlimited space. My site doens't get that many hits
(www.convectionconnection.com) and being on cable even with a
32kb/s upload cap... it works fine. My server runs on a old amd k6
300mhz with 128mb ram.... just used our old computer. I run win2k
with apache on it, and it works great. Sure theres a bit more time
involved, but I'd rather do that then spend $99 a year.

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DavidP said:

It's hardly "pointless". Good idea. I'm not wild about those two
particular names, but that's the kind of thing I'm looking for. I
think.

How about:

AShotInTheDarkPhotos.com ?

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Shabok said:

Shabok said:

How about:

AShotInTheDarkPhotos.com ?

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PhotographerInTheDark.com
PicsInTheDark.com
HalfLightPhotography.com
LowLightPhotography.com
ImmortalizedVibrations.com

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DavidP said:

Mine doesn't (or didn't, I guess I should-recheck that).

So, that "little bit of time" coudld turn into 6 months to a year
behind bars, maybe.

OU_WxGuesser said:

IF your on a decent broadband connection, just make your own server
with unlimited space. My site doens't get that many hits
(www.convectionconnection.com) and being on cable even with a
32kb/s upload cap... it works fine. My server runs on a old amd k6
300mhz with 128mb ram.... just used our old computer. I run win2k
with apache on it, and it works great. Sure theres a bit more time
involved, but I'd rather do that then spend $99 a year.

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--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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DavidP said:

I've decided that I should get another website for myself....

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OU_WxGuesser said:

Aaron

DavidP said:

I've decided that I should get another website for myself. One
that'll be just for my photos that I think are some of my best, and
to use along with any future business I may set up. Initially I'd
just have business cards set up with this company name, that would
have the URL on it. Along with an email like
[email protected] or [email protected] .. I'd set
up this email account to just forward to my real email account.

PS -- readyhosting.com seems to have a pretty good deal. $99 a
year for 500 MB of space, unlimited bandwith (unless you start
shutting down the server -- LOL -- so no porn sites, probably),
unlimited emails, AND they pay for your registration (as long as
it's a new name that they set up).

Now for the hard part. Coming up with a name.

I could always "steal" from Steve Mitchell and use something lilke
DigiConcertPix.com . . . . but he'd probably sue me!

Or I could try something more clever like TwangThangPhotos.com . .
. but a songwriter in Nashville already has TwangThang as his band
name and publishing name.

But, those two names show the two different conflicting types of
names I'm considering:

1) a name that basically says what I do (concert photography)

2) a name that's a bit more clever, and is geared more towards the
type of music I like to photograph

I'd love to combine the two styles, but I'm not quite sure how well
that'd turn out. TwangThangConcertPix.com . . . . hmmmmmmmm.

That works (I wouldn't use TwangThang because I know somebody that
has it . . . but you get the picture), but then I have an awfully
long URL name.

Thoughts?

I'm leaning, I guess, towards something like the latter, even
though it means a long URL name.

If I chose a name (let's use Twang Thang as an example), would it
be advisable to have the name of the business be

Twang Thang Photography and Video (the "and video" I'm still
thinking about), but a URL name of TwangThangConcertPix.com ?

Or is it better to have the URL name and the business name match
more closely?

eg,

Twang Thang Photo

and

TwangThangPhoto.com

?

--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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http://students.ou.edu/K/Aaron.D.Kennedy-1/
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MurryG said:

Since your initials are DP how about DPix.com?

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Karl Guttag said:

Typical domain name registration is $35/year so that means are only
paying about $64 more for the Hosting. For that the people
accessing (knowing DaveP) pictures get Megabytes per second (I
expect) rather than 10's of Kilobytes to download, pictures.
32K is a joke for pictures, plus if somebody goes to your site they
suck you dry for upload.

Yahoo Domains charges $14.95 per month and you only get 100Meg of
disk space for their "basic" setup. I currently only have then
$35/year starter set up with no disk space so I am looking for
somebody else to host. I love the fact that I own my domain name.
I have been through 2 carriers plus the ATT @home fiasco about a
year ago and I did not loose any email, nor did I have to send out
a bunch of emails telling everyone my new email address, but I want
to get a web site going for my family and for my business.

Karl

OU_WxGuesser said:

Aaron

DavidP said:

I've decided that I should get another website for myself. One
that'll be just for my photos that I think are some of my best, and
to use along with any future business I may set up. Initially I'd
just have business cards set up with this company name, that would
have the URL on it. Along with an email like
[email protected] or [email protected] .. I'd set
up this email account to just forward to my real email account.

PS -- readyhosting.com seems to have a pretty good deal. $99 a
year for 500 MB of space, unlimited bandwith (unless you start
shutting down the server -- LOL -- so no porn sites, probably),
unlimited emails, AND they pay for your registration (as long as
it's a new name that they set up).

Now for the hard part. Coming up with a name.

I could always "steal" from Steve Mitchell and use something lilke
DigiConcertPix.com . . . . but he'd probably sue me!

Or I could try something more clever like TwangThangPhotos.com . .
. but a songwriter in Nashville already has TwangThang as his band
name and publishing name.

But, those two names show the two different conflicting types of
names I'm considering:

1) a name that basically says what I do (concert photography)

2) a name that's a bit more clever, and is geared more towards the
type of music I like to photograph

I'd love to combine the two styles, but I'm not quite sure how well
that'd turn out. TwangThangConcertPix.com . . . . hmmmmmmmm.

That works (I wouldn't use TwangThang because I know somebody that
has it . . . but you get the picture), but then I have an awfully
long URL name.

Thoughts?

I'm leaning, I guess, towards something like the latter, even
though it means a long URL name.

If I chose a name (let's use Twang Thang as an example), would it
be advisable to have the name of the business be

Twang Thang Photography and Video (the "and video" I'm still
thinking about), but a URL name of TwangThangConcertPix.com ?

Or is it better to have the URL name and the business name match
more closely?

eg,

Twang Thang Photo

and

TwangThangPhoto.com

?

--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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http://students.ou.edu/K/Aaron.D.Kennedy-1/
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Karl

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Karl Guttag said:

I decided to snoop around the web and see what their rating might
be. I found this site that rates web hosts. I don't know anything
about the rating site but 3 on a 10 point scale does not sound good.

http://www.webhostingratings.com/plans/ReadyHosting.html

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DavidP said:

I've decided that I should get another website for myself. One
that'll be just for my photos that I think are some of my best, and
to use along with any future business I may set up. Initially I'd
just have business cards set up with this company name, that would
have the URL on it. Along with an email like
[email protected] or [email protected] .. I'd set
up this email account to just forward to my real email account.

PS -- readyhosting.com seems to have a pretty good deal. $99 a
year for 500 MB of space, unlimited bandwith (unless you start
shutting down the server -- LOL -- so no porn sites, probably),
unlimited emails, AND they pay for your registration (as long as
it's a new name that they set up).

Now for the hard part. Coming up with a name.

I could always "steal" from Steve Mitchell and use something lilke
DigiConcertPix.com . . . . but he'd probably sue me!

Or I could try something more clever like TwangThangPhotos.com . .
. but a songwriter in Nashville already has TwangThang as his band
name and publishing name.

But, those two names show the two different conflicting types of
names I'm considering:

1) a name that basically says what I do (concert photography)

2) a name that's a bit more clever, and is geared more towards the
type of music I like to photograph

I'd love to combine the two styles, but I'm not quite sure how well
that'd turn out. TwangThangConcertPix.com . . . . hmmmmmmmm.

That works (I wouldn't use TwangThang because I know somebody that
has it . . . but you get the picture), but then I have an awfully
long URL name.

Thoughts?

I'm leaning, I guess, towards something like the latter, even
though it means a long URL name.

If I chose a name (let's use Twang Thang as an example), would it
be advisable to have the name of the business be

Twang Thang Photography and Video (the "and video" I'm still
thinking about), but a URL name of TwangThangConcertPix.com ?

Or is it better to have the URL name and the business name match
more closely?

eg,

Twang Thang Photo

and

TwangThangPhoto.com

?

--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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Stephen Cook said:

If you do something like
http://www.thatguywhokeepsgettingkickedoffofthedpreviewforums.com ,
it becomes a little tricky for people to remember.

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DavidP said:

BTW, the name is

http://NeonLightsImaging.com

Stephen Cook said:

If you do something like
http://www.thatguywhokeepsgettingkickedoffofthedpreviewforums.com ,
it becomes a little tricky for people to remember.

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--
The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons
http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.net
Photography -- just another word for compromise

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DavidP said:

keep forgetting the http://www . . . . my current domain name doesn't have
that in it.

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• DL

Jim Hardy said:

p.s. I think dpix.com is the best suggestion so far! clever!

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• DL