With the 2 names I've had to choose one was brainstorm -> short list -> check trademarks -> check domains. This lead eventually to "Barefoot Ceramics" (a paint your own pottery studio, http://www.barefoot-ceramics.co.uk). One of the top names "Ty Pots" (pun on teapots and "house of pots" in Welsh) I really liked but we discounted in because it's just too clever and can't be dictated easily. Barefoot is sometimes misspelt Bearfoot, but rarely - it's a term in pottery as well as being a reflection on the relaxing environment and earth friendliness we've tried to build.
The other was choosing a name that was a double-entendre from my location and the nature of the activity, I chose early and then scouted around for domain variations using different TLDs. This lead to BridgeHosting.net (web design, SEO, internet hosting, http://BridgeHosting.net). The pun is "connecting people" and that my location has lots of bridges.
My personal webspace is at http://www.alicious.com - I chose that because it can be an ending for various subdomains, eg "web.alicious"; noone can spell it or pronounce it!
With the 2 names I've had to choose one was brainstorm -> short list -> check trademarks -> check domains. This lead eventually to "Barefoot Ceramics" (a paint your own pottery studio, http://www.barefoot-ceramics.co.uk). One of the top names "Ty Pots" (pun on teapots and "house of pots" in Welsh) I really liked but we discounted in because it's just too clever and can't be dictated easily. Barefoot is sometimes misspelt Bearfoot, but rarely - it's a term in pottery as well as being a reflection on the relaxing environment and earth friendliness we've tried to build.
The other was choosing a name that was a double-entendre from my location and the nature of the activity, I chose early and then scouted around for domain variations using different TLDs. This lead to BridgeHosting.net (web design, SEO, internet hosting, http://BridgeHosting.net). The pun is "connecting people" and that my location has lots of bridges.
My personal webspace is at http://www.alicious.com - I chose that because it can be an ending for various subdomains, eg "web.alicious"; noone can spell it or pronounce it!