Choosing the name
Naming my business has been one of the hardest tasks so far. I have been on a hunt for a name for weeks. As my name is hopefully going to be with me for a long time, i needed it to be able to include these things:
- I wanted the .com and .co.uk domain names.
- I wanted to be the only obvious LimeLocket on the web.
- Relevant.
- Be cool/girlie/pretty/appealing.
- I wanted the name to be able to cope with expansion out of jewellery into other accessories.
Why was it so difficult?
First of all i thought i could just use the internet name which i have been blogging under for 2 years now. However when i searched for knottedrose.com, i was redirected to godaddy.com with a message saying that for $69.99 + commission, somebody at GoDaddy will help me negotiate a deal with the owner. Err NO. Not likely. So i have been on a hunt for a new name.
I cant tell you how many names i have been through. Most have just sounded awful, but some have been good, but a quick search on the either Google or GoDaddy proved that they were too good and had already have been taken. I even tried translating some of the names into Welsh, but even these have been "parked for FREE". I even found one that wanted £2,577.72 for gemau.com (jewels in Welsh).
For a while i did sort of settle for Silver Rose Accessories, but just felt a little uneasy about the name. Also there were several other Silver Rose's already on the web.
Then once day i just thought of Lime Locket. It does not really mean anything much, lime was just a random word that for some reason popped into my head, and locket began with L just like lime and it is a jewellery word. I thought that i would probably have been taken already, but i was wrong. So i jumped at my chance to snap up limelocket.com and limelocket.co.uk.
