Those of you who have been waiting for me to announce the winner in my ‘help me choose a domain name competition‘ (catchy title I know) will be happy to know that I’ve selected a winner and it can now reveal it.
The winning entry was from Liam Daly who was one of the first entries within the first hour or two of the competition. He wins the $100 USD gift voucher for Amazon (or $100USD to his PayPal account).
He suggested the name ‘LifeTipper’ (lifetipper.com).
Now before you all go over to look at the new blog – it’s not there and won’t be for a little while as the last week has seen me swamped with life.
Why did I choose LifeTipper as a name?
There were a number of reasons for it including:
- It fit with the vibe and keywords that I mentioned as being the goal of the blog
- It has a similar ring to ProBlogger which might help to tie them together a little as sister blogs
- I think it’ll be pretty easy to remember
Close to 300 URLs were submitted so the choice was not easy. Some of the other short listed finalists were quite similar to this name and others were completely different. It was fascinating to see how people came up with names. They ranged from rearranging the letters of my name, to incorporating the ‘Pro’ from problogger into a name, to looking at Latin/ancient greek etc as a basis for names. I was very tempted by two names that were just ‘bizarre’ and had nothing really to do with the subject matter and three names that were ‘dad’ focused (I’m tempted to choose one of them for a second new blog down the track) but LifeTipper just fit with me (and V who was my other judge) and so it got the nod.
I know in choosing any one of the hundreds of domains that were submitted (close to 300) I’m rejecting 290+ others but I want to thank all who submitted URLs to the competition. As I mentioned previously – some of you put in quite a bit of work to submit your URLS and I appreciate that.
I hope no one is offended by me not choosing their entry but there can only be one winner.
In terms of when LifeTipper.com will be up and running. Stay tuned. It could be a little while but it’s definitely towards the top of my to do list.
