I’ve been pondering similar issues. The domain my blog sits on right now is the title of the blog, which worked well at the time, but I no longer identify with said name. In addition, given that I’d like to get into web design, trying to ever host a portfolio on it would be a bit awkward. It seems to make more sense to try to get a domain where I could do both. Or at least to concentrate on the “more important” professionally expandable domain name for now, and worry about the blog if and when I decide I want to write it again. It’s hard. Even though I have a fairly clear idea what I want to do with the domain, and that I do want it to be expandable, picking a name sucks.

Your points are all good. I’m not sure I thought of them all, either. Of course in my case, spellable is more difficult. Presuming you can spell my name, you’d be all good. And one would hope if I give you my domain, you know my name. But I know people who get it wrong often. However, I’m not going to go around trying to buy up every variant of Jaemi…..that’s just not plausible for little old moi.

My real issue is just of my options, what to end jaemi -with-. I think my main choices are .net info and .us ...although it might just be the latter two. And through my current registrar, of those two, only .info is an option. It would probably suit my needs just fine as well, it just seems so lifeless. If that makes any sense.

- Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 15:48 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Those are good guidelines, but most of them aren’t that important for personal sites. I actually think “bladam” is just fine for you. It’s probably as close to your actual name as you can get with such a common name, and it’s easy to spell and remember. I don’t think pronunciation is an issue, since it’s just regular “adam” with “bl” in front (which is how you can head off spelling questions when giving it out verbally, as well).

On the other hand… what language does it mean “smelly” in?

- Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 17:45 [ Permalink to this comment ]

lasnikweb.com

- Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 17:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Jaemi, you definitely understand where I’m coming from re: the trying to fit a broad bunch of stuff in one domain name .  And yeah, I agree that trying to buy all the jaemi in the world would be tough.  And jaemi-?  Hmm… tough one!

And yep, Graham, good points.  Re: “smelly”... er, that didn’t apply to my domain names (I hope!), but was just a colorful way to emphasize potential trans-linguistic challenges in naming .

JohnT… interesting timing! I just started playing the game Portal :D.

Jillian… at least some people (like you and Graham and others) got and appreciate the meaning(s) of bladam!  re: real name… some bastard squatter claimed adamlasnik.com the day my boss announced (on his blog) Google’s hiring of me.  And I can guarantee you, the squatter does NOT share my name .

And Joe, thanks for the suggestion!

- Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 21:12 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I was lucky to get my name dot com

- Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 11:55 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Since I was running out of time (my old domain registration expires Saturday, I bought jaemi.info. It seemed the best of the options open to me at the moment. Now I just have to make sure to do something with it.

- Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 at 9:26 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I am lucky to get my name dot com.haha

- Posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 at 7:44 [ Permalink to this comment ]

You could have done this:

ad.am/lasnik

but that domain has gone and I don’t think you can buy 2 character domains anymore.

You could always use this one:

adaml.as/nik

- Posted on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 9:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Well, I don’t think your domain name is yucky!  I thought it was “short” for Blogging Adam!  Kinda like “blog” is “short” for “weblog.”  I like it!

- Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 15:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I’ve heard many nicknames over the years. Bladam is not the worst i’ve heard.

- Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 18:22 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Those are good tips for choosing a domain name, but I don’t see anything yucky about the domain name you have chosen.  Remember that “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

- Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 16:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Bladam looks like it fits you!!

- Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 12:07 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Bladam is a very good name, unique, easy to remember, simple and easy to say it. But may be less good for a domain associated with doing business online. It seems less familiar But I believe, with a short name, people will easily to remember your name. Thank you for the tips, very useful for me. I will select a suitable domain name for me.

- Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 14:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Nice compilation, but unfortunately it is almost impossible to get a domain name like this these days.

- Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 6:41 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I would like to get id.com But i think it is quite impossible for now till the end xD

- Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 12:19 [ Permalink to this comment ]

No offense, but I thought bladam was a clever combination of blah (as in blah! blah! blah!)(that might be the part that offends you - sorry) and your name, adam. I didn’t give it much thought and would never criticize you for the domain name you chose unless it was blatantly offensive or vulgar.

- Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 0:04 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I would suggest if possible, get all generic top-level domains. For instance, suppose your domain is bladam, buy bladam.com, bladam.net, bladame.org, bladam dot whatever you can think of.

- Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 22:27 [ Permalink to this comment ]