Wow, original artist names are hard to come by these days
I guess it's a good thing I came up with my artist name many years ago. I'm trying to come up with a name for this new downtempo side project and I've discovered that EVERY f###ing name I've come up with, even quirky mispellings, are all taken! I've come up with dozens of ideas over the past few weeks, mostly associated with terms that the general public probably wouldn't be familiar with, and nada - every single one has been used. I guess that's one of the casualties of the boom in music production and the Internet, eh? Anybody else noticed this?
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Last edited by cryophonik on Apr-18-2012 at 18:40
Apr-18-2012 17:02
meriter
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Registered: May 2009
Location:
Yeah I fucking noticed this. Took me months to finally settle on something. What pisses me off is these people parasites that just buy up domain names and resell them for 100x their worth. So many creative .com domains are taken and just sitting there unused for the sake of some scumbag making money. Talk about fucking things up for the rest of us.
All you can really do is settle on the name you want and be better and shine brighter than the others, then it's YOUR name.
Apr-18-2012 17:19
cryophonik
Boom shanka
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Elk Grove, CA USA
quote:
Originally posted by meriter
Yeah I fucking noticed this. Took me months to finally settle on something. What pisses me off is these people parasites that just buy up domain names and resell them for 100x their worth. So many creative .com domains are taken and just sitting there unused for the sake of some scumbag to make money. Talk about fucking things up for the rest of us.
Interesting sidenote: a friend of mine works for a company that just paid $14K for a domain name from one of those companies!
quote:
Originally posted by meriter
All you can really do is settle on the name you want and be better and shine brighter than the others, then it's YOUR name.
I've been considering that, since the name that I really want is taken by an east coast heavy metal band, which, incidentally, really does not fit well with the meaning of the name anyway. The other problem is that the domain name is taken by one of those companies mentioned above.
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Apr-18-2012 17:25
tehlord
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Windsor
Domain names should become available again after say 28 days if they're not used, and if the original owner wanted to sit on it, it should become progressively more expensive to do so.
Originally posted by tehlord
Domain names should become available again after say 28 days if they're not used, and if the original owner wanted to sit on it, it should become progressively more expensive to do so.
Don't those BS parking pages let them get around that?
Apr-18-2012 18:03
cryophonik
Boom shanka
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Elk Grove, CA USA
The future of artist names is looking bleak. I guess we'll have to start re-using old names and add numbers after them. I hereby claim Tiesto2.
