Once I had decided on a topic, but before I found my niche, I was already looking for a name for my website.  It seemed best that I keep the website name and the domain name the same, for branding purposes, and to make the site look as professional as possible.  So I set out to find a catchy name for a motorcycle site.  I would write down anything that came to my mind, and even solicited some suggestions from friends and family.

Having come up with a few names I liked, it was necessary to see if the domain name was available.  It wasn’t enough to type the name into the address bar; many registered domain names are not in use, but still not available.  To find out I had to check the domain registration.  There are many ways to do this.  For directions, click here.

Many of the names I thought of turned out to already be taken.  Those that weren’t I gave a lot of consideration to; I wrote them down and typed them to see how easy it was, I said it out loud, a lot, to see if it was something that would sound good when one person spread the name to another, and I went back to my friends and family and ran the names past all of them.

One name stood out amongst the rest.  Two Wheel Soapbox.  The name was available.  It sounded good.  It spoke to what I anticipated writing about.  Had my niche not come along, it would be the site I was writing about here.  But things happened the way they did, and I fell into my niche.  But I liked the name so much that I built upon it to come up with the eventual name of the website, Three Wheel Revolution.

*On a side note - I liked the Two Wheel Soapbox name so much I started that as a personal blog.