Name & URL for Jewelry/accessory site
 

I am in the process of putting some of my jewelry up on Etsy and would like to decide upon and secure a domain name. I really like Adornments.com (or adornment.com) but both are taken. So I'm trying to modify this name a bit without getting too over the top. (I want to avoid things like "for you", "store" etc) I probably want to stick with a .com but I'd be open to other options.

I would like to keep the name open enough to be able to add different types of craft to the site in the future (ie: wearable art).

Ideas:

Uncommon Adornments
Unique Adornments
Vintage Adornments
Classic Adornments
Adornaments
inspired adornments
Art of adornment
adōrnāre (latin)

Synonyms:
Festoon
Bejewel

Thoughts???

Assorted Adornments (AA!)

Or Adornment Assortment

Adorable Adornments might be too cutesy

I'll put on my Pooh cap and think think think

Too bad shiny.com is already taken ;)

On your list, I like Art of Adornment.

Are you picking a style or era you're going to emulate? How would you describe it? Words like Vintage are so overused.

Darling Adornments
Lisa's Adornments
"Adorn" by Lisa

Just thinking out loud.

I second Art of Adornment.

How about LoungeofTomorrow.com?

Oh damn... I see that is already taken

I want to keep the name reasonably open so that it doesn't sound to pigeonholed. If I want to expand the "shop" to have home goods or hair accessories or whatnot the name would still suffice. That's why I like the word "adornment" because you can adorn anything from your self to your house. I think the key overriding idea is "accessories" for the body and home. I agree that vintage and retro are overused terms these days and encompass a WHOLE lot of styles.

Adorne Me
Adorne Yourself

eDornments.com

Adore Adornments

AdoratheExploraDornments

Ornamental Adornments

iAdore Adornments

A Window and A Door-nments

Michael Dorn-ments

Another vote for Art of Adornment.

And I kind of love Adornaments

Art of Adornment

How about: buymystuffdammit.com?

:D

Terms of Adornment

I likes it. Yes, sir, I certainly do.

Adornments now sounds funny to me. A door n ments. A door. Mints! That's how it's sounding in my head.

Funny when you say a word (even in your head) over and over it sometimes goes weird on ya.

Lisasfamilyjewels.com

feedmycats.com

buymycrap.com

RougeBijou.com

CrazyCatLady.com

Why I decided to check every single submission so far is beyond me...

Uncommon Adornments - uncommonadornments.com - not available
Unique Adornments - uniqueadornments.com - not available
Vintage Adornments - vintageadornments.com - available
Classic Adornments - classicadornments.com - available
Adornaments - adornaments.com - not available
inspired adornments - inspiredadornments.com - available
Art of adornment - artofadornment.com - not available
Assorted Adornments - assortedadornments.com - available
Adornment Assortment - adornmentassortment.com - available
Darling Adornments - darlingadornments.com - available
Lisa's Adornments - lisasadornments.com - available
"Adorn" by Lisa - adornbylisa.com - available
Adornments by Lisa - adornmentsbylisa.com - available
Adorne Me - adorneme.com - not available
Adorn Me - adornme.com - not available
Adorne Yourself - adorneyourself.com - available
Adorn Yourself - adornyourself.com - not available
eDornments.com - available
Adore Adornments - adoreadornments.com - available
AdoratheExploraDornments - adoratheexploradornments.com - available
Ornamental Adornments - ornamentaladornments.com - available
iAdore Adornments - iadoreadornments.com - available
A Window and A Door-nments - awindowandadoor-nments.com - available (both with and without hyphen)
Michael Dorn-ments - michaeldorn-ments.com - available (both with and without hyphen)
Art of Adornment - artofadornment.com - not available
buymystuffdammit.com - available
Terms of Adornment - termsofadornment.com - available
I like adornments - ilikeadornments.com - available
Lisasfamilyjewels.com - available
feedmycats.com - not available
buymycrap.com - not available
RougeBijou.com - available
CrazyCatLady.com - not available

Well. maybe Inspired Adornments is the one. Such a long name, though.

Self adornment?

Yeah, but what about variations?

art_of_adornment.com
artofadornment_boutique.com?

Self adornment - selfadornment.com - available
artofadornment.com - not available
artofadornmentboutique.com - available
(you can't use underscores in domain names)

ArtDornment.com?

Huh. Who did you use to check them?

Wow. I just laughed so hard. Thank you for that :)

OK, I have one more that I'm liking.

The Modern Adornment

It is either that or Inspired Adornments.

Thoughts?

Adornations (a play on adorations)

For some reason "Modern Adornment Mart" sounds good to me.

I like "The Modern Adornment". Yes, ma'am, I certainly do.
:)

I like "Bob"

Vote here for "The Modern Adornment"

I vote Modern Adornment as well

I like "Modern Adornment" but it's kind of a mouthful, or a keyboard full. www.modernadornment.com is a long url (says the guy who came up with www.loungeoftomorrow.com - but we're about keeping the riff-raff out, not inviting the customers in :p). If you go with it, you might want to consider also registering an abbreviated version of the domain (like ModAd.com) along side it, just to give customers something easy to remember and type.

Adornables.

I have a choice between The Modern Adornment or Modern-Adornments.

Will there be a day when the world runs out of URLs?

And, what's all of this stuff that gets added on to Go Daddy? My $10 registration quickly ballooned up to $100. Do I need all of this other stuff? Do I need to hold every other version of the name with .net, .org etc? I don't think I need an email address since - or do I? And, do I want Private Registration? Am I really going to get slammed with spam without it? (Of course, I'm using my home address, so maybe that one is worth it.)

GD will probably have more experienced answers than I, but here is my $0.02:

• Do I need to hold every other version of the name with .net, .org etc? - No
• I don't think I need an email address - or do I? I would, but it probably isn't necessary. If you don't, make sure that the an email address is prominently displayed. (Well, even if you do get an associated email address, make sure it is prominently displayed.)
• And, do I want Private Registration? Am I really going to get slammed with spam without it? (Of course, I'm using my home address, so maybe that one is worth it.) Since you are using your home address, I would go with the Private Reg. There's enough weirdos in the world (besides me) that you really don't want having access to your home addy.

No, no, private maybe.

Where will you be hosting the actual site? They will provide email addresses with your domain, included in the hosting fee. Don't take godaddy's, it's not necessary. Unless you plan on using godaddy as your host (I wouldn't).

No, I think I can host somewhere else. I need to look into what my .mac account can get me as well.

You get one free email address with your domain address at Godaddy

Might I recommend lunarpages (which reminds me, I haven't updated the affiliate banner ad in a long long time, and now $5/month gets you unlimited bandwidth and storage on a shared server).

The .mac account is really reliable and affordable. That's what I use for both my regular and wedding service sites.

Once you have a domain, Google Apps can use it to host your email (ie lisa@familyjewels.com or whatever) It's free and lets you create up to 50 email addresses.

What about Bob's Web Site Hosting and Laundry Service?

I'd sell you this one if I owned it.

I like Modern Adornments.

I added a poll with three variations to choose from (these are all available).

I think this idea is worth exploring, call your website Modern Adornments, but have a simple domain name that's easy to remember and key in correctly

I'll have you know you've just caused CP and I to have a discussion about diphthongs.

ETA: And now I've learned that a diphthong means something a little different than I've always been taught it means. You learn something new every day.


Anyway, just don't go with "Modornments", that's horrible.

Jing Jing-a-ling-a. JingJing.com?

By modern, do you mean contemporary? Or do you mean modern as in early to mid-twentieth century? The term modern adornment makes me think of something I'd see in a 50's issue of McCall's or BH&G.

I think if adornmentsbylisa and artofadornment are available, they should be grabbed and pointed to whatever the final site is, because they're both excellent names (and could be used as sub-stores later). Also, if buymystuffdammit is available, it should be grabbed with all haste and used to sell geek goodies. No, seriously.

So far I like it. Modern Adornments.

adornment eclectica

Don't chose a URL with dashes in it. Think of all the site you go to... Do any of them have dashes in the name? The only one I can think of is coca-cola.com. People just don't use dashes in their URLs.

All you need from GoDaddy is the registration. No email, no extra add-ons, etc. They try and upsell so much crap that you don't need. Private registration isn't necessary, but if you are worried about a stalker or getting spam or junk mail you maybe might want it. I personally don't use private registration and I've never had an issue with junk mail or anything like that.

I'd be happy to get you a coupon code and walk you through the process of purchasing the domain or do it for you. It will cost under $8 if you don't add on the private registration.

On a side note, modadornments.com is available. You can always call the site Modern Adornments, and use the shorter URL for the address...

Also of note, modernadornments.com is expiring in September and it doesn't seem like the domain holder has plans for it. I'd say it's likely to become available shortly thereafter.

Keith, I miss you!!!!!!

So, I can't seem to pull the trigger on GoDaddy. I am not comfortable with the hyphen (hell, I didn't do it with my last name!) and, today, I couldn't even remember the name I like. That's not a very good sign.

I'm still thinking and thinking and thinking......

Still thinking.....and researching...I looked up Moderne again. I have anti-love for this definition.


Oh, and NotAfraid.com is taken. Bastards!



mo·derne

 
–adjective pretentiously modern; striving to appear modern but lacking style or conviction.

www.techbargains.com go to coupons (upper right part of screen) and scroll down to GoDaddy.

Looks like TWT247 will get you 30% off a .com

I almost broke my brain over this one, but when it came down to it, I didn't want a dash, I wanted a .com and I didn't want anything closely related that could be confused with my site. Plus, I kept forgetting the name I "wanted" and kept calling it the name that was available. I guess that's what I needed to choose, so I did.

Inspiredadornments.com is it.

Not that this is a reason not to use it but when I first read it I parsed it as "inspire dad ornaments." My brain just provided the missing a.

I'm glad I decided on a name because I was asked by the owner of a wonderful shop if she could carry my stuff. That made my day!

Hooray!

Lisa, that's awesome news!

Yay!

Lisa, that is FABULOUS news.

I won't be South for the breast cancer thingie. When will your site be live or have you got anything up on Etsy yet?

The banner and Moo cards are being created, I took some actual GOOD photos last night, so the shop should be up very soon. Meanwhile, I got a poster for the Event. I'm going to do a Save the Date thread.

I like you too, Kevy!


I missed it, I was goung to say LoungeOfAdornments.com!

I can't belive this:

:eek:

NA, I'd like to congratulate you on much success of your craftiness! Can't wait to see how well you do at Patchwork. :snap:

Speaking of which, I know we have the occasional "quilt days", but how about just a monthly general craft day (quilts included)?

Thanks, DP! Same to you!

We don't don't only do quilts when we meet (although, we'll finish our quilts one day). We'll be working on other projects in the future. We all have so many skills to share.

NA, cannot thank you enough for the little bi-plane and le Tour Eiffel gift. I love it, I'm wearing it now. Awesome! Can't wait to see more of your craftiness!

New goodness happening making August a very busy month for me!

1) I'm going to be the featured artist at Bella Cosa for the August First Fridays event.

2) I'm collaborating with the band Summer Darling on some jewelry using their fantastic art work Download the CD from their site too - it's great! (Thanks for MP for the introductions!)

3) I may be participating in the OC Foodie Fest on August 28th. (I should have confirmation soon.)

(Not to mention that my other job is in full swing at the moment - summer vacation and all.)

Whew!!!!

NA

1) Yay!
2) Yay again! (ps. the album download is free)
3) I hope you don't get it. Selfish me.

Dang, NA, you are kicking some ass.

Way to go, NA! :snap:

I got into the OC Foodie Fest on August 28th! I also got another commission this weekend to do some work for a local bakery. Now all I need is some extra time!

Lisa, I am so proud of you {of course, not that I've done anything to make you who you are just watching you makes me proud!} doing the things that you love to do and being successful at them!!

Your talents are endless and I love to see you flourish!

Congrats!

Lisa, this is so awesome! :snap: :cheers:

You just keep knocking my proverbial socks off, lady. I love hearing all of this great news.

Proverbial socks have such weak elastic.