My current project is Blogumbus (check it out at: blogumbus.com). It's a type of blog search engine with a graphical layout. The most important thing to me wa

My current project is Blogumbus (check it out at: blogumbus.com). It's a type of blog search engine with a graphical layout. The most important thing to me was the availability of domain names. I wanted a dot com, not a .ly .me .whatever else. My intended audience includes lots of people who aren't necessarily the best with computers, and that audience still thinks dot com is the only thing out there. Now I'll tell you the story. I knew I the product had to do with blogs, so I tried to brainstorm names that had blog in it. Obvious things like combining two words, e.g. blogcloud or blogstar, were all taken. It suddenly occurred to me that I my product would help people "circumnavigate the blog-o-sphere" while I was out sailing with my dad. This made me think of bloggellan (from Magellan). This name had the unfortunate side effect of two g's next to each other. So I brainstormed a bunch of other explorers and settled on Blogumbus (for Columbus). I'm not sure yet how good of a name it is, but it's at least tolerable.