cartesian-heights.org

[jack]

How about cartesian-heights.org? It's distinctive, it's a nice name, it looks fairly easy to type.

Are hyphens sane in domain names? I know many sites automatically reject[1] any email address with a "+" in, is a "-" likely to be a problem?

If you saw it, would you remember if it had a hyphen, dot, underscore or nothing between the words? If I said "cartesian heights dot org with a hyphen" would you understand it?

Are you familiar enough with the adjective "cartesian" to be able to remember it if you hadn't heard it before?

[1] See standard "why go to such an effort to make life more difficult for people?" rant

Comments

[liv]

I like the idea of "Cartesian heights", it obviously connects to you, but it's your place, not you personally. And it's common words that are at least relatively easy to spell. On the negative side, it's still kinda long, so a similar problem to "cartesiandaemon", which is a very cool username until you have to type it.

I think a hyphen is likely to cause confusion though. Without the hyphen it's hard to read, but with the hyphen it's hard to remember. AFAIK it will only confuse humans, computers deal fine with hyphens in URLs.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I like

Thank you, yes exactly.

common words that are at least relatively easy to spell.

That's what I thought. Better than "daemon". OTOH, "Cartesian" isn't very common for non-mathmos, though I think easy to spell :)

a similar problem to "cartesiandaemon"

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Long is annoying just from a typing standpoint. I think it's probably _less_ problem in an URL, as most of the time you have autocomplete, but you if you start having email adresses (name@cartesian-heights.org) it gets complicated.

AFAIK it will only confuse humans,

:( Apparently so. I thought it would be fairly distinctive, I see hyphenated URLS fairly rarely.