funDiva

Back in 2002ish, I was ready to have my own web page, rather than continue using the premade overview sites I had been using. I already owned ChristyHoffman.com but since there are many ways to spell both christy and hoffman, I thought I'd better come up with something shorter and easier.

I have always been a happy extroverted person so I started with the keywords of happy, happiness, fun, smile, stuff like that. And then I was looking for a word that would describe that I was an individual like guru, master, gal, etc.

I wrote them all out in a spiral notebook and started combining and checking them in domain lookups.

I actually did not buy funDiva.com right when I had discovered it, I waited a few days. Back then I didn't think there was such the domain kiting that goes on today, including the suspicion I have that some domain search spinning sites actually track your searches and kite the names based on lookups.

In retrospect, it's a really great name, it's short, memorable and really describes my personality well.

However I have to wonder sometimes if I have grown to be more of a funDiva as a result of having the name and branding myself as such. Hmm. OK so I made up the name funDiva, but did I make up the personality to go with it?