Picking a good web site address

From the beMWeb file... (beMWeb was the web site making division of Melançon Enterprises before I became part of Agaric Design.)

Picking a good web site address is important, and difficult.

For instance, the URI bemweb.com is a horrible domain name. [note to self: install automatic acronym identifier]

It's short, but impossible to remember if spoken, even for people who know I'm weird (think BEnjamin Melançon WEB design).

My main business address, MelanconEnterprises.com is too long, let alone the fact my last name has a cedilla under the c (Melançon) which could never be successfully used in an address, even if it were a legal character, because no one knows how to type it (it's ALT-0234 on Windows and Option-c on Macintosh, by the way).

And shortened to MelanconEnt.com the web address is worse, because (four years after I got it people start telling me) people misread it "malcontent."

So what privileges me to give advice on this topic? Experience, obviously.

The organization of everybody who cares about making the world a better place, People Who Give a Damn, has a pretty good web site name: pwgd.org, which I also have in the .net and .com varieties.

The hard part of course is finding a domain name that fits you and that isn't taken.

But with repeated inspiration trial and error you too could come up with an excellent brand-name type URL for your web presence.

UPDATE: Such as Agaric Design, heh. Soon to be a household name.

I haven't found a domain name registrar I'm completely comfortable recommending, but if you're paying more than $9 a year contact me.