Technopotomus is born

Why Technopotomus?

One day I spent countless hours trying to find the right words to describe my domain name.  It was a hard battle, as every time I found a word or combination of words, someone had already owned the domain name.

I was using a thesaurus to find even lesser used words.  I was scouring the web for ancient artifacts or historical places that could have some relevance to what I wanted my site to be about.   Places like the Walls of Babylon.  As strong as those were for some time, they were breached overnight, therefore I did not want to have that associated with Network Security.

So as I was trying to work the word Tech/Techno/Compu into the name, even trying to marry one of them with an animal, I was finding that many others had the same idea over the past years and have secured them.

Although, many were taken, some were not in use.  Some of these had no content, in fact were not really in existence on the web, but they were owned.  Some for a later purpose, but some for profit.  One of them was for sale for $7500.   It wasn’t even all that great of a domain name.  But I suppose if someone chose their business name first and then just HAD to have that name, they can haggle for it.

I did find another that was setup in 2002 and had not been updated since then.  It actually just had links on it another domain name that had information regarding the wedding and reception of a couple.

So here we are.  I did get to use one of my preferred suffixes and an animal (or part of one).  Since Technopotomus rolls off the tongue as easily as Hippopotamus does I figured it was a decent choice.

You may notice it is misspelled, however the correctly spelled domain is . . . yes you guessed it.  Taken!

Now regarding my  mascot. If any of you are familiar with Linux, you’ll notice  resemblance to the mascot of that OS, Tux.  It is no coincidence.  Since I was going to be discussing a lot of Linux material here, I figured I’d give my technopotomus a familiar feel.