Kicking and Screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat
So I have a date on Saturday to build my website. This will be a secondary marketing tool: I don't think anyone will find me in the intarwebs by googling "Editor"; however, my name and contact info are out there in a number of professional contexts, and it would be good to have an online space with a little more information than what's found on my listing on the Editors' Association online directory. I really admire Anna Genoese's aleuromancy, and I'd like my site to have a similar combination of professional credentials and personal character, but with a more zingerella-esque feel.
This brings us to the first important question: domain names, and here I'm calling in the wisdom of my flist (again!). Because domain names? Are challenging. On the one hand, you want something easy to spell and easy to remember. On the other hand, you don't want something dorky or boring. On the non-existant prehensile tail, almost everything succinct and easy-to-remember is taken.
HALP!
[mylastname].anything is taken. This is odd: it's not a wildly common last name. Then again, it's not wildly uncommon, either.
At the moment, my business cards say [zingerella]: Grammarian at Large. My home e-mail address is syntactician@[myisp].com. Both grammarian.ca and syntactician.com are available. So is grammarlicious.ca. Editorialeyrie.com is available, but I probably won't live here forever, and I can see that being difficult to explain if, say, I move into a ground-floor apartment.
So, dear wise ones, what do you think of the following domain names? Do any strike your fancy? Can you think of other good names for domain for the website of Zingerella: Grammarian at Large, Fearless Wielder of the Blue Pencil, Champion of the Subjunctive, and All-Around Word Nerd?*
1) syntactician.com
2) grammarlicious.ca
3) grammarian.ca
4) [firstnamelastname].com
5) [lastname]words.com
6) editorialeyrie.com
* No corporate publication too boring! No book too bumbling! No pubishing process too perplexing! No stylesheet too snarled! ... okay, I know. I won't put that on my website. That's too much personality. But I can have fun here, can't I?
This brings us to the first important question: domain names, and here I'm calling in the wisdom of my flist (again!). Because domain names? Are challenging. On the one hand, you want something easy to spell and easy to remember. On the other hand, you don't want something dorky or boring. On the non-existant prehensile tail, almost everything succinct and easy-to-remember is taken.
HALP!
[mylastname].anything is taken. This is odd: it's not a wildly common last name. Then again, it's not wildly uncommon, either.
At the moment, my business cards say [zingerella]: Grammarian at Large. My home e-mail address is syntactician@[myisp].com. Both grammarian.ca and syntactician.com are available. So is grammarlicious.ca. Editorialeyrie.com is available, but I probably won't live here forever, and I can see that being difficult to explain if, say, I move into a ground-floor apartment.
So, dear wise ones, what do you think of the following domain names? Do any strike your fancy? Can you think of other good names for domain for the website of Zingerella: Grammarian at Large, Fearless Wielder of the Blue Pencil, Champion of the Subjunctive, and All-Around Word Nerd?*
1) syntactician.com
2) grammarlicious.ca
3) grammarian.ca
4) [firstnamelastname].com
5) [lastname]words.com
6) editorialeyrie.com
* No corporate publication too boring! No book too bumbling! No pubishing process too perplexing! No stylesheet too snarled! ... okay, I know. I won't put that on my website. That's too much personality. But I can have fun here, can't I?