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Monday, January 23, 2006
My Suggested Name Wins $100 !
A couple of weeks ago Darren Rowse, the Australian full-time blogger and co-founder of B5Media, ran a competition where he solicited suggestions for a domain name for a new blog.
We were told this new site would primarily be about helping people get the most from life and would include tips, inspiration, story and discussion. It would also likely tap into the prowess Darren displays on many of his technical blogs. The new blog however, would be designed to be broader in appeal than his existing web or tech sites and would take on emotional, spiritual and relational issues. As this coming June sees Darren become a Dad, fatherhood is also a likely subject.
A quite general brief then, but helped by being told he intended to write it in the tone he uses for the much-loved ProBlogger.net, the Web's primary authority on making money from blogging, and that he sees it positioned close to the likes of StevePavlina.com, 43Folders, and Slacker Manager.
All we had to do was find a domain name which met that brief of branding, tone and content, and was available of course. And for good measure a .com address was preferred. Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Domain-naming tools, and Look-Ups in hand, and an hour later I had a suggestion: LifeTipper.com Earlier this evening on ProBlogger it was announced as the winning entry and my dog was wondering why I was suddenly cheering.
We were told this new site would primarily be about helping people get the most from life and would include tips, inspiration, story and discussion. It would also likely tap into the prowess Darren displays on many of his technical blogs. The new blog however, would be designed to be broader in appeal than his existing web or tech sites and would take on emotional, spiritual and relational issues. As this coming June sees Darren become a Dad, fatherhood is also a likely subject.
A quite general brief then, but helped by being told he intended to write it in the tone he uses for the much-loved ProBlogger.net, the Web's primary authority on making money from blogging, and that he sees it positioned close to the likes of StevePavlina.com, 43Folders, and Slacker Manager.
All we had to do was find a domain name which met that brief of branding, tone and content, and was available of course. And for good measure a .com address was preferred. Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Domain-naming tools, and Look-Ups in hand, and an hour later I had a suggestion: LifeTipper.com Earlier this evening on ProBlogger it was announced as the winning entry and my dog was wondering why I was suddenly cheering.
And Here's The Stuff I Wrote Earlier:
