a good domain
breakfast thinking
Doing my morning scan of my Mastodon timeline, I saw a post by someone saying that we should try to make the fact you're going to google something a Bad Thing now. We should turn the verb use of googling into an insult.
Example: "That's so unbelievable it sounds like you googled it."
Apparently, the kids are not saying to google something as a verb any more anyway. They just say 'I'm gonna search that up'.
It's naturally falling out of favour to be specifically 'Googling' things, as actually Googling things with Google gets more ever more useless.
It's googled out. We're all de-googling. Google's boogled (I don't know what that means either).
(NB: This is only gleaned from what I have read – I haven't actually used Google to search with myself for a good few years now.)
Then, about three seconds later – because that's the kind of tab-skipping my morning involves – I read a blog post in my RSS feed, extolling the virtues of various small web blog directories.
I'm not surprised. There is still a lot of very good human web to be enjoyed, bubbling away merrily below the behemoths.
coffee thinking
And my brain went 'Hmm... google bad, small web good... I wonder if you could do a cheeky small web search or directory website of some sort that used the name Goodle'.
Genius creativity! Or the usual bonkers.
Goodle!
"I'm hitting the web for a bit of goodling"
I can hear the cool kids saying that now.
It would have the benefit of being a kind of knowing poke at Google's famous, but now literally ditched 'Don't be Evil' motto, and be mischievously close to Google by having the 'le' ending.
So I went off to Namecheap to search the domain name goodle.com
And it's available!
For just £258,309.34
Yeah, OK.
Would probably get a cease and desist lawyers letter for your trouble too.
OK. May need to rethink that TLD.
overworked thinking
So looking down the list, you could get goodle.ai for a trifling £230.68
Nooooooo!
Ah, goodle.work
That has a pleasing 'good work' sort of vibe. Only £10.37 annually.
Or goodle.fyi at only £5.38
Nice. Goodle for your information.
Heh heh. Wouldn't that be a nice nose-rub?
realistic thinking
There is a small problem with me buying either of these. And that is that I would no idea what to do with them. I don't know how to build anything on the web to use them. My web technology knowledge is about as good as my tap dancing ability. None.
I'm the ideas man. No need for a whiteboard. Brainstorming is basically a description of what is going on in my brain all the time.
Only very occasionally do I remember anything long enough to write it down though.
So there you go. If anyone wants to have a bit of fun and taunt the Google lawyers with a website called Goodle, (.com even, if you have a quarter of a million to invest in it) a site doing I don't know what, but is very much not evil, then I'm open sourcing the idea – i.e. writing it down here for a reader to do something else with it.
All I want is a credit for naming it. And perhaps a packet of custard creams. And a small quiet room away from all of this.
Of course, there is a good chance that absolutely no one can see why this tickles me so much and leaves here muttering 'Idiot' to themselves.
I have that effect on people.
post link for sharing: https://skryblans.com/a-good-domain
If you got this far, you may as well click the star below on your way out.