How did you choose your blog/website name?

My blog is named gtoosphere. Incidentally my first blog post was on how I named my blog. I am Jayanth and my friends call me g2 short for jeetu... and hence gtoosphere (the world around g2)

an extract from my first post... http://gtoosphere.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-do-you-name-blog.html

"... I decided to try something new, something out of the ordinary, then I tried 'Salman's shirt – I write about things that don't exist' but eventually dropped the idea because I felt that Salman and his non-existent shirt joke were overdone in all circles.

The next big idea was to append any two of the most random of words, so I decided to name my blog 'Blashedged and Quenosted – these are not even in the dictionary' or blasquenos in short. I liked the idea for a night or so but realized that I am already suffering from a really stupid gmail id because I thought it sounded cool a long time back and didn't want to make the same mistake again.

So, I zeroed in on gtoosphere which makes sense and will continue to do so as long as I am g2. Anyways I feel that the concept of a blog is a tad greater than it's name so, it shouldn't really matter..."

gtoosphere !! That is one unique name.

Concept of blog is surely greater than its name, but name has some significance too... A point justified by the fact that sometimes people dedicate a post on how they chose there blog name

My blog domain is http://parth-dave.blogspot.com

My Blog Name is The Indian World

I thought about the blog title very spontaneously and I have no plans of changing it as such. I basically blog about India and its various aspects and issues. So, I feel the blog name is very apt.

I also don't think that the Blog Name and the URL should be the same...

The blog name and URL need not be same at all.

Your blog does raise a lot of aspects and issues on India and you write very well too.

Nice topic!!

My blogs domains are http://asatishc.blogspot.com and http://asatishc.wordpress.com

I chose the first one (blogspot) back in college and thought I would simply put my name there. The title back then was 'Routine' which I thought would be apt for my daily routine.

Later on when I got into my job, I felt as if happiness is being sucked out in real life and so I changed it to 'Absconding Paranoid' refering to a mad person running away from real world. Theres a post about this name change -> http://asatishc.blogspot.com/2008/02/me-heh-p.html

I post routine events, my thoughts, poems/songs/quotes, sketches etc. More like a personal diary. So I thought the name 'asatishc' in the URL would justify the content :)

I started the second one (wordpress) to put all the Telugu posts at one place instead of cluttering in the first blog. I put the same name for this one too for the same reason.

This ones title is 'Aluperugani Alpasanthoshi'. In telugu, this means - 'A tireless optimist'.

I post my Telugu posts, poems, sketches etc here.

The title "A tireless optimist" is too good. If you are one such person in real life then success is taken for granted.

Bloggers name is a better choice for personal blogs, but when initials are put together with the name, people will find it difficult to pronounce, like in your case we can also read it as - 'as' 'at' ishc. kind of a word. Same prob is there with my blog url too..

What is the job that you are doing which made you run away from real world

My blog's domain is  http://miilee.wordpress.com/ 

I've named it Latent Thoughts. 

since Miilee is my short (and commonly used ) name, That's what's gone into the domain. and I've named my blog that way cause that's what my blog is about. I write on the thoughts that are at the back of my mind as I live my daily life.... in case my content changes with my writing, I'll change the name, probably..,, but I will still identify with my domain. 

Your thoughts eventhough latent, is rich, diverse and seem to cover lot of things as is evident from the categories of your post. Since its a reflection of miilee's mind, the domain name and blog name together conveys it clearly

Hello people, it was soo much fun to read all your posts on how you named your blogs.

my URL  http://diabolic-ness.blogspot.com/ 

My pals had aliased me this name "diabolic ness", which is a typo because it should have been "diabolical ness". But its been years and thats how it is now, can not help but live with it.

My blog title: Serendipity of Nonsense

A name that came up after a week of high sighed debates over cups of machiatos and i finally christened my blog "Serendipity of nonsense". My buddies mostly do not read my posts but take a great interest in helping me out with stuffs like that. Suggestions came flowing (read:snowing) in, ranging from "Shashaying in stilettoes" to "My world...my words". But a true like a true aries woman, i fought for my choice. and that was it ....Thats how the cookie crumbles!!!!

Serendipity of nonsense was an obvious choice depending on how I am and how my buddies see me through. Happy reading, only if you do!

The word meaning of Serenpidity seems to be fate, fortune or destiny. So I assume your blog is the destiny of non sense.  But your posts does make lot of sense even amidst your lazy style of writing. One quick comment though - plz change the background color just to increase the readability

Well after experimenting with 2-3 names I settled on the current name

i.e http://prashantnepayments.blogspot.com/

this title contains my name prashantn, so it can never be copies

and epayments - the one area which i am passionate about

A very simple logic. Only problem I see is that people may read it as prashant followed by 'nepayments'

First I chose to name my blog as Chronicles of my life (that still is the URL, which unfortunately will stick forever since cannot be changed now). Then I understood that my life is not such great that someone may be interested to chronicle it, except for me.

So within weeks I renamed it One More Day In Life (should be read as - just another similar, no adventure, nothing-has-change-a-bit day in my life). But people seldom seemed to understand the reason and I had to explain to them...imagine explaining a joke or punch you made. Horrible.

So I changed to ItyaAdi (which actually is a play with my name and that's not really Rahi). But there's one more reason behind the choice of name. If you go through my blog, you will see that I am talking about just any topic under the sun. So if you wanted to find a specific category for my posts, I am sorry you can't. So you call it as miscellaneous. And that's where Ityaadi comes in. 

I think I should use this explanation on my blog as well. That ways people will not keep pestering me with reason behind the blog name. 

Yes you should. you can include it as an "about" page.

http://klishmaklaver.blogspot.com/

My blog name comes from the word clishmaclaver dictionary meaning of which is gossip.

I have taken the liberty of its wider meaning being 'lot of talk' which I do..:) Then it could be on any subject! Surprisingly I didnt get the blog name with the original word so I tweaked it a bit and made it 'Klishmaklaver'...I'm happier with this one though! :)

So luckily I got more than what I desired..:D

I was trying to guess the reason behind the url klishmaklaver, but failed to do so. Hmm gossip is transformed to Klishmaklaver. Your blog indeed contains "lot of talk" in the form of facts, pictures, poetry et al.

Yep buying a blog domain is dirt cheap...it costed me just about Rs.400 per year...hosting is more expensive so currently I am hosting it on Blogger.

mine is www.tysonice.blogspot.com

Tys is the nickname and i like my Jack Daniel on ice, hence the name. Luckily I got the name I wanted. Guess there arent many tys out there who likes their drinks on the rocks.

The name of my blog is Life and more such nonsense. It was Life and other such nonsense but one day I went on a destructive streak and deleted the whole content of 3 years. Boredom made me come again in the new avatar.

Thats my story

Interesting name, no one will realise the code behind the name, unless revealed. But you deleted the content of 3 years.. How could you do that?

subups : it was easy. I went to the edit content and deleted the whole thing. Building is fun only when you can topple it later on.

1.Site : www.xoxymoronsx.wordpress.com

2.*Points to link. Click it. 'Cuz we're awesome!*

3.We're called : The Oxymoronic Oxymorons.

4.We just decided something to do with Oxymorons sounds fun, and here we are.

yes oxymorons sounds fun, but oxymorons does have a meaning of contradictory statements, but oxymoron statements are missing in your blog. The user names of the 3 authors are quite inventive, especially the convolution one. oxymorons u rock !!

I used to have a blogger blog called Musings of my Mind but shifted to my own domain name under 'www.lazypineapple.com. I was looking for a catchy and short name. It has definitely helped me to have my own domain and I suggest most of you to do that if you love your blog. It hardly costs anything and you can host it on blogger for free :)

Lazy Pineapple is a  name for a game of poker and I like the name cause it sounded fun and I primarily write a humor blog. 

Didn't knew that lazy pineapple is a game. Yes the name does gives a feeling of something funny inside and sure all the blogs have a tinch of humour. Yes who wouldn't like to have own domain, but is it true that it is so cheap?

Mine is http://theanalystquotes.blogspot.com/  

I started out as a movie reviewer in my older blog http://thegreatdanton.blogspot.com/  and then since a username was not available I called myself theanalyst. So when I created a new blog I didn't think too much about the url, It started out as a satirical work mainly and my blog is titled 'My experiments with the hyperbole' , which was used to describe my intial posting style which often used extravagant exaggerations.

The analyst at his best making extravagant statements. Good that you gave the meaning of hyperbole in the blog title itself. Your moview review also is good. But you seem to blog only rarely.

To  be frank, I didn't think much about my blog name. I just used parts of my first and last name to get sarathyraghav.blogspot.com

Like many others who have posted here , it is the title that was important to me. I love Nirvana and hence chose the title "It is better to burn out than to fade away". It symbolizes my attitude towards life.

A personal blog with a url containing your name and a title depicting your attitude. Well said buddy

hey yaa....

URL:-  http://hiteshrawat.blogspot.com

Title:- The Way It Is

2. The reason behind the selection of the blog name

Cause i always wanted write personal stuff....(It's a personal blog)...... so the URL is pretty handy and the title too

3. Did you get the blog name which you desired to have?

well by default it showed the one i'm using ......though i thought about it for like 2 mins...then stuck with it.

4. Have you ever changed the blog name and why?

No, never ever felt the need to.

5. Have you ever felt like it is not the right name for the blog?

naa.......it will be 3 years in March this year....hoping that feeling never gets induced in me......

URL selection for personal blogs seems to fairly simple job, since any combination of blogger's name is good enough.

Title needs to be a little bit more thought of, just like it is here.

So you are a very experienced blogger !!

http://iscribblesx.blogspot.com/  - this is blog's current url. Obviously, its not an original idea. It is quite clear it has been abducted from the apple names for their products (iTunes, iMac etc) 'x' is there 'cause .. errr well I couldn't register 'iscribbles' :P so yeah, that's about the url. I changed the url quite recently it was 'a-soul-apart.blogspot.com' before. Reason - it looked kiddish/emo to me.

My blog's title is 'A world of Illusion'. I came up with this title almost 3years back. It has stayed almost the same since then. I changed it in between, then reverted back to the original. I like it that way. Reason for selection of this title is that when I started posting on my blog, I wrote this little poem 'Illusion'. Hence, it was a random title, but turns out to be a lil' deeper than that if I sit down and think about it. :)

Nice selection of URL. Your blog is indeed filled with your scribbllings. 'x' in the URL makes this URL look unique and this 'x' makes your URL not looking like a lift.

Well your x can be given a meaning since 'x' does have a meaning of Unknown, the same way rontgen used in naming X rays. 

In programming terms whenever we think of a variable, we put 'x', so x is associated with variables, so your blog can be termed as scribbling the unknowns, or variable scribbling or random scribbling. So 'x' does have a meaning in ur URL.

If you ask me to chose whether URL or the title is matching your posting, then I will pick your URL. May be because the title was chosen based on your first post.

Hehe thanks :D

And wow description, really like it! Never thought of it that way you know :P hehe

I changed my blog title to 'iSribbles' once, but reverted back :]

In a way the blog is a place where I think aloud and come to conclusions. Some of those conclusions may be part of an analysis which looks at the underlying probabilities that are unspoken or are not highlighted. In that respect there is a attempt to out think events, circumstance and people.

I just visited your blog and what you told here is cent percent implemented there. Loved your intellectual blogging. Continue analysing and out thinking, for it will be really useful for many people looking for information (Slightly off topic - your blog on shares is quite informative).

My Blog: http://coffeeandchess.wordpress.com/

I have been wanting a blog name that I identified with and experimented with a lot of names and finally one fine day I had the 'Eureka' moment (Yes, I was in the shower and no I did not run out).

I am addicted to coffee and like the game of chess because it is a strategy game where you are trying to out think your opponent. And since my posts can be on a variety of topics the name had to be generic and lastly it has to have easy recall value.

No one will think that ur topic evolved from a eureka moment coz it looks simple. But the way u have reasoned is good. :)

Do u really mean that in your blog also you are trying to out think your opponent?

my blog: http://thoughtfulrandomness.wordpress.com/

i got it at the first shot, then i wasn't so sure about it.. but now i just love it..

to me 'thoughtful' and 'random' show a little contradiction, i.e. me..

my posts are on any random topics i choose to write about. i don't follow any trend. still a lot of thought goes into it. i guess that's it..

and i don't want to change it anytime soon... maybe another blog with a different name in a couple of years, but this one's here to stay..

Thoughtfully laid out articles on random subjects !! It does match your blogs content.

Well, nice topic! Many have asked me this before and I have never replied!

My blog's URL is http://sign9.blogspot.com . Its name is 'sign9'. Why it is so? Well 'sign' is abbreviated from signature (meaning expression) and '9' is my favourite digit, it is the biggest single digit numeral and therefore represents power also! :)

Nice thinking Manik

to the optimist 9 means just one more to reach the perfect 10

to the pessimist 9 is one below the perfect 10

wow interesting and smart!!!!