What's in your family domain name? Mar23 '07

How does your full name sound (and look) as a domain name? Your family may appreciate you coming up with "domain naming trend" for future generations.

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Now you can see why I never registered my full name:

MATTTHOMMES.com

The three T's in a row is bad form. Also, "THOMMES," although pronounced like "Thomas," is spelled strange, so it would be too hard to remember. For example, here are some questions I get very often:

How many M's? Is it an "A" or an "E"?

So I scaled it down: removed a "T," and drop the trailing "MES." (The trailing "MES" wasn't necessary anyway - it was an extra syllable I could live without.)

This left:

MATTHOM.com

I was satisfied with this for a few reasons:

Only two syllables.
Combines portions of my first and last name.
I am often called "Tom" by accident.
"THOM" rhymes with "COM," so the full name MATTHOM.com sounds right and is easy to remember.
This is really "cheesy" but I'll mention it anyway. The latter portion, "THOM," is a tribute to my favorite vocalist in the world - Thom Yorke of Radiohead. (And even more useless facts: Thom Yorke's middle name is Edward, just like myself.)

But, it's not perfect. People still confuse the pronunciation by saying the "TH" softly, as in the word "The," or "Thimble." It should be a hard "T" like "Tomato." The "H" is silent.

Also, this doesn't scale well for other family members. It only works if the first name has a "T" at the end, so the two portions can be merged together.

Perhaps I will name my children Brett, Janet, Juliet, or Kurt.

I hope my ancestors don't cringe in their graves with my butchering of our name.

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matthom is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago. Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.