Whenever I get an idea for a site project, I tend to run to the command line and bounce from whois to whois, looking to see if I can find a good name that isn’t registered. OK, sometimes I don’t even have a good idea, I just like to see what I can find among the ever diminishing top level domain namespaces…

I’ve gotten better (I don’t want to go on the cart!) about not registering my finds until I’m SURE I have something worth putting up… but at $10 or so for a year registration it can be pretty hard. In an effort to offload the burden I’ve decided to throw whatever I find and am definitely not going to register up here.

The funniest ones are the ones that can be parsed in multiple ways, or provide options for interesting subdomains or e-mail addresses. For example:

• meallover.com – As in “meal lover.” I was thinking ”me all over,” but who doesn’t love food? Good for a recipe / restraunt review blog. Ok, so there are other options too… like track, follow, lick…
• ssismine.com -How would you like to get an e-mail from “your@ssismine.com”? I don’t send enough threatening e-mails to register that one. Maybe a fisherman would like this.b@assismine.com? Or a metal reseller: all.br@assismine.com?

If anyone does register a domain I post here, please let me know so I can see what you do with it.