Sunday, January 22, 2012

Shorten My URL!

I handed out close to 200 business cards at SHOT Show this past week, meaning that it's time to start thinking about another printing. There are several substantial changes I want to make, like adding a QR tag to the card as well as incorporating the shiny new banner from Robb Allen. If I'm going to be redesigning the card, one of the things I want to do is get a custom (read: non-blogspot) URL for the blog, specifically something shorter (so I will no longer be jokingly referred to as "www.thelongestURLontheinternet.blogspot.com"...).

Unfortunately, "www.marooned.com" is taken (but not currently in use), and "www.marooned.net" is being auctioned at a price you'd need to smoke crack to agree to, so my options are limited. I'm looking for something that incorporates the "marooned" aspect as well as significantly shortening the link itself.

I've got a couple ideas of possible URLs to use, but I'm not married to any of them. The criteria are that they incorporate "MArooned" or "jayg" in some way, and don't approach the length of my current URL (IOW, no "www.jaygismaroonedinmassachusetts.com"...). I thought I had a winner when I set up a Wordpress back-up blog with "stuckinmass" until Unc pointed out that it looked like "stuckinmyass.com"...

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas are all welcomed; and if you're the person that owns "www.marooned.com", let's talk!

That is all.

26 comments:

LC Scotty said...

Given what the laws have done to folks like TJIC, perhaps "stuck in my ass" is not as wildly inappropriate as it might first sound...

Borepatch said...

You know that there's a new Top Level Domain ".xxx", don't you? And you are the home of Friday Gun Pr0n.

;-)

WV: "bedulood". Sorry, not going there.

AuricTech said...

So "minuteofberm.com" isn't in the running?

WV - conutin: "Ask your doctor if Conutin® is right for you."

Johnnyreb™ said...

If you haven't tried yet, you can get a custom domain from blogger. I was able to change the url of mine, thus shortening considerably.

Yeah, shooter-ready.blogspot vs. therebelyell

The .com was taken, but .net, .org and a couple of .'something or another' i don't recall were available.

Couldn't beat for $10 a year ...

Also, either url will take you to your page which is good if some readers have you bookmarked.

Dave H said...

Maybe a .us domain? "StuckInMA.us" maybe? (It's not currently in the DNS.) Domain names aren't case sensitive but on a card you can print them any way you want.

ZerCool said...

I also like StuckInMA - and the .com is also available.

TheMinutewoman said...

How about ma-rooned.com?

Anonymous said...

Both marooned.met and marooned.ws are available, it seems.

Anonymous said...

Oops. marooned.me

Jay G said...

OOH. "www.stuckinma.com" has a ring to it. Hmmm...

"www.ma-rooned.com" is also really good. Since URLs are lowercase, MArooned doesn't translate, so having the dash in the middle makes sense...

There was a movie called Marooned in 1969; perhaps there was a planned remake that generated interest in securing the URL?

cej102937 said...

wherethehellisjay.com

Mopar said...

How about StuckIn.Ma

Borepatch said...

There may be a ".ma.us" domain, in which case you could be stuckin.ma.us ...

Angus McThag said...

MstuckA

It's clever. Then we can also call you Ms Tucka!

Ryan said...

MAroonedinMA.com and variations are available.

chiefjaybob said...

I'm kinda fond of stuckinMYass.com

Might just get that for myself, if you aren't interested......

breda said...

jayg.us

Short enough for ya?

Jim said...

The one you really oughta use is: "movingtoTexas.com"

No need to thank me, I'm only too happy to help!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

The Scribbler said...

jaymarooned.com is apparently available also, if you'd prefer to stick with the .com appendation.

.45ACP+P said...

Dude, I tried combining your 2 tags as one item and found no link. It should be worth a try to you. I did not print it here to prevent some pirate jumping on it.

BikerDad said...

marooned.us. Or, with a hat tip to The Honorable B. Bunny : ultra-marooned.com

:D

Jay G said...

Heh. www.whattamaroon.com...

Dave H said...

I think we have a winner!

Justin Buist said...

jayginma.com would seem pretty natural.

Adding a hyphen to kinda get the URL you want (like ma-rooned.com) could be hard. The hyphen isn't spoken easily. I remember when the movie Without Limits released in 1998 their URL was without-limits.com. If you went to withoutlimits.com you got a porn site. Ooops.

Ed said...

MA-Marooned.com?
When I Google searched the text string "MA-marooned" the first two sites noted were:
MArooned
stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com/

and

MArooned: Again, It's Not Just MA...
stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2011/.../again-its-not-just-ma.htm...

Claim what already is yours.

jumblerant said...

http://goo.gl/ is google's URL shortener - just keep clicking 'shorten' until something funky turns up.

Or you can always use something like 45or9mm.com

I work in e-commerce and my advice is to only use .com as an ending. No-one remembers any other one.