Looking for advice on a name I regged

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 11:14 AM

I'm looking for some advice, and this is probably going to be hard to follow. If anyone would like to help I will gladly PM them the names in question. Here's the problem:

I regged a name the other day (a six-letter dotcom). Before regging it I had checked out its meaning, and found that it was an obscure but real word. Having regged it, I checked it out again and an innocuous word kept coming up referring to the first part of my name , although there is one extra letter in my word to the one that was coming up.

I checked to see if my name spelled the way the first part was coming up was available and it was (is). I was about to reg it also, when I put it into the search engine. And up came a reference to something horrible, that is, another spelling for the way the whole name would sound without the extra letter (it would be a five-letter pronounceable dotcom). Am I confusing you?

Anyway, my question is: will the name I've regged be affected by the sound of this shorter word, and should I just delete it? Or would it still have a value for branding. It really doesn't remind me of the other, shorter word, but maybe it would others.

**Devil Dog** · 03-13-2008, 11:18 AM

:head spinning:

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 11:20 AM

Ah, I was afraid of that. Sorry.

**SlickDomains** · 03-13-2008, 03:32 PM

Maybe Reg the shorter one and redirect it to your 6-letter dot com domain that you want to use?

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 03:50 PM

I don't see how that would help. Basically, my problem is this:

I've regged CVVCVC, because it seemed a good brandable name to me.

I discovered that C(V)VCVC was free, that is, leaving out the first vowel. But although I was pronouncing it as the one I regged (CVVCVC), the search engine turned up CVCVC (that is, without the first V) but showed me that when pronounced it had bad connotations. So, now I'm wondering if the original CVVCVC I regged will also be tainted, or if my original pronunction of it will stand.

OMG, I'm not explaining this very well.

**Banned: theinvestor** · 03-13-2008, 03:52 PM

It's easier to explain if you told us the domain. I would stay away from domains that could be used with a bad connotation. You don't want people to be confused.

**james2002** · 03-13-2008, 04:42 PM

It is like a puzzle and you will make people wondering what you are talking about.

**stewie** · 03-13-2008, 04:49 PM

let me get out my decoder ring ... I might be able to help you....LOL

**robmac** · 03-13-2008, 04:58 PM

Perhaps if I call Dr Who or perhaps a charactor out of lost........

just post the URL - it wont kill you ( honest ) and then perhaps you will get some good advice

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 05:26 PM

Okay, folks, here it is. The one I regged was quikes.com (I actually dreamt the name and checked first thing to see if it was free, as I thought it sounded very brandable.) I turned up an obscure meaning for it of quirks.

When I had regged it and put it into the search engine again, a lot of qi words turned up. So I thought, I wonder if qikes would be better, more like an extension of qi (which I think has to do with energy or something). Being cautious, I put it into the search engine and came up with someone using it as if it were spelled with a k instead of a q.

So my question, again, is. Is quikes.com any good now, as I would always pronounce it kwi, or is it tainted with the minus u word?

Sorry to have been so long-winded about this, but I hate offensive words. Seems like my dream might not have been such a good one after all. If I can't use it, maybe I'll write an article about the experience and at least get some good out of it that way. :(

**VTEC** · 03-13-2008, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by MAllie

So my question, again, is. Is quikes.com any good now

sorry to say this, but NO=reg fee. Off course it could be developed into something good, but from that many available names you could have chosen something else

and people would probably make many many typos IMO

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 06:35 PM

No, you're quite right, VTEC. Live and learn, eh? And it's a cheap lesson, just for the reg fee. Being a trained typist I keep forgetting that typos are an important factor when people are searching.

**Banned: theinvestor** · 03-13-2008, 06:41 PM

When i type out that domain, it tells me i spelled it incorrectly and comes up with "quakes".

Another typo you do not want. Too many similar things that it would be tough to develop.

Good luck

**MAllie** · 03-13-2008, 06:43 PM

Yes, thanks to you all, especially for your patience with my roundabout question

**peanutbutterX** · 03-15-2008, 08:31 AM

what were you dreaming about? genocide?

**MAllie** · 03-15-2008, 08:36 AM

No, I actually dreamt the word itself - quikes. I often dream words and numbers, and sometimes I win money of the numbers (by betting in the bookies that they will turn up in the lottery) and sometimes I turn the letters into numbers and they win. Actually, now you mention it, I didn't check to see if any of the quikes' letters turned into numbers woud have won anything.

**Onward** · 03-15-2008, 08:40 AM

Yes, imagine advertising on the radio....

**peanutbutterX** · 03-15-2008, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by Onward

Yes, imagine advertising on the radio....

exactly......I wouldn't want to be the public relations officer the next day

**biggedon** · 03-15-2008, 09:12 AM

Hi

Please, in the future post your domains in "Appraisal" section if you want opinions.

Thanks

**MAllie** · 03-15-2008, 09:17 AM

Thanks, Biggedon. But I wasn't looking for an appraisal and, even if I were, the first two times I posted there I got no response whatsoever.

But no, my question wasn't to do with whether the name was worth anything and, if so, what, but whether I should use it at all. This has been answered most satisfactorily for me. Thanks again to everyone who replied.