# Need help with a domain name Dopers! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793 "2016-05-27T05:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/1 "2016-05-27T05:58:00Z")
Ok, youse lot being the smartest and hippest folk on the planet, I’m setting up a personal website and need some ideas for a domain name. Last month I went on holiday and kept my FB friends (and some on a page devoted to holidaying at the place) updated with our daily stuff, and the feedback I received suggested it might be a good idea to set up a blog. This was not meant sarcastically just for your info. 😃 So it seems that there are joints out there that will provide templates and domain names for barely more than a latte a week, and I’m happy to avail myself of their services… BUT I NEED A GOOD NAME! The blog will be a personal one: me, a grandmother living in chaos with her daughter and grandkids…travels…moving house…life as a telemarketer…which box of wine is the best value…musings on the meaning of life (not so much)… It will be a sardonic and often sarcastic look at life through my eyes as a 56 yr old woman living in Australia. I WILL try to avoid political comment as much as possible though. 😛 So, chuck 'us ya ideas for domain names folks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/2 "2016-05-27T10:12:45Z")
As much as I, as a fellow antipodean, want to avoid cliché, the only suggestions I can think of all have “Down Under” in them. _“Down Under Turned Over”_ _“Inside Under”_ Not very happy with either of those. Nor my final best attempt: _“Out The Back”_ _“The Annotated Antipodean”_ I should be better at this. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/3 "2016-05-27T10:25:12Z")
stufftotalkaboutinsteadofdrinkingalattebecauseispentmylattemoneynamingthisblog dot au You know, unless that’s the domain for Austria. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/4 "2016-05-27T10:31:44Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You know, unless that’s the domain for Austria. I think Australia was one of the very first countries to grab a regional domain, because we use “.com.au” instead of the more common “.co.au”. (Austria is “.co.at”) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/5 "2016-05-27T11:38:48Z")
listentoyourgrandmother(or grandma).com > **[GrandMusings](https://grandmusings.com)** > > Musings on Aging and Family Life ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/6 "2016-05-27T11:47:05Z")
Don’t bother with a domain name. Just sign up with Blogspot or whoever and you’ll be [xyz.blogspot.com](http://xyz.blogspot.com) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/7 "2016-05-27T11:47:45Z")
As a Graham Greene fan may I suggest _Travels With My Arse_. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/8 "2016-05-27T15:24:53Z")
grannysbeachinworld. com. au ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/9 "2016-05-27T17:54:46Z")
Youcallthatablog?THISisablog ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/10 "2016-05-27T18:39:28Z")
I have no ideas… but I want to follow your blog once it’s set up. 🙂 Also, if all you’ll be doing is blogging, then **Quartz** has a good idea to sign up with blogspot or blogger or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/11 "2016-05-27T21:37:43Z")
tougholdbird.co.au ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-domain-name-dopers/755793/12 "2016-05-27T22:47:21Z")
If you want it easily found, [YourName.com](http://YourName.com) (or .co.au, .net, or whatever) is your best bet. If you don’t care if anyone outside of your immediate circle finds it, figure out what theme you’ll be writing in (which can be broad); and name based on that theme.