Where does the Sportner name come from?
June 8th, 2007 by Jeremy Chone |
From Christophe Coenraets‘ brain. It is pretty amazing, when you think that we had been looking for a name for more than a month without success. All imaginable names were already taken; more frustrating, most of them were only being used as “parking pages.” |
We were almost in the process of buying a name for over $5,000 in desperation.
Then one day, we got an IM from Christophe saying “Did you find a good name?”, “I found a name for you”, “It’s available”, “sportner.com”, “sport + partner = sportner”, …
Although Christophe gently recommended that we buy the name immediately (for $8.99) and think about it later, we, for some complex reasons relating to neuron interference, decided to wait a day or two. Not surprisingly, a day later, the name was gone. However, surprisingly, couple of days later the name was available again. We took it for $8.99 and sent a big THANK YOU email and IM to Christophe. Everybody likes the name so far (which is pretty rare).
Off the record, we are convinced it was meant to happen. There are no other explanations to Chistophe’s sudden IM, or to the very mysterious name’s resurrection.
Tips: We would like to say that www.godaddy.com has good customer service and a really great price. We used to use other more expensive services (~$30 for a domain name), because we had the feeling that by paying more we would get better support. We were wrong. Godaddy.com is cheap at $8.90 per domain name, and its technical support is top notch.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:15 am
> for some complex reasons relating to neuron interference
I was the neuron interference and I still hate the name! It reminds of the guys name from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Ratner).
June 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Ho, yes, I remember now, it was you.
Correction: “(Everybody - Todd) likes the name so far (which is very common with Todd).”
June 8th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Nice name though .. hmmm frustating enough when you you see all the common ones are taken and used as “parking pages” …. good luck in your venture ..
June 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Thank you Sudip.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
$8.99 from godaddy? what about 1and1.com? I paid $5.99 for all my domains. Do they offer different service? Also for some reason I “feel” there’s some kind software that capture the domain name you search. If it is available and you didn’t get it right then, the software will automatically register it and it’s gone for you. I can’t think of what’s the odds is one day you found it’s available and the next day is gone. anyway, at least you got the name you want at the end. best of luck!!
June 14th, 2007 at 8:39 am
@Zenger
Yes, I do think that there are such services that grabs “almost bought names”.
About Godaddy, I really like its “Domain DNS Console”. Easy and powerful.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
This is going to sound very bizarre but I had a dream last night my girlfriend started work for a company called “Sportner” so I googled the word (I don’t think I’ve ever seen it anywhere before) and found this webpage. Crazy I know! Errr so good luck anyway!