I have a research/education website I've been working on with the name of Phoebe2.com.

I must say I'm not a big fan of my own site's name for three reasons:

1. I got the 2 because Phoebe.com was taken. I justified it by pretending it meant "faster" or "better", but in honesty I think it makes it sound amateurish. You don't see a Google2.com
2. The name says nothing about what it does. It was named Phoebe because she was the "wife" of another website I did named Coeus. The two websites intergrated into each other. It had this greek mythology theme. Unfortunatly I had to change the name of Coeus, so the theme no longer works.
3. It's hard to spell. Phoebe goes against spelling rules, and as a result frequently gets misspelled and gets lost traffic. "If two vowels go a walkin' the first one does the talkin'"

I've bought the domain name WordPit.org. I wanted to use a .org, but I also wanted the .com to redirect to the .org because I know that people will try WordPit.com if they know the site name is WordPit.

I'm posting this message to see what everyone thinks of WordPit. I wanted some opinions before rebranding and hiring somebody to do a new logo, etc, etc…

Think of it as WordPit, where the words are, or where words hangout, or the place to go for words.

Thanks

I moved this to "Starting your Design" because it's not something that should be reviewed (plus I would have had to kill your other actual review request), but I'm not sure this is in the correct place.

I'll have to think about it.

WordPit like sandpit, where the words play nicely together? I like that, and it is easy to remember. I do think you are right about Phoebe2 as a name, though chiefly on spelling grounds.

The other two associations for me at least are moneypit (something that eats all your money) and armpit - less good. But I think once the WordPit name is known, people won't make negative associations, they'll just see the name for itself.

I agree with Lucent. The sandpit analogy works for me! WordPit... rolls nicely off the tip of my tongue...

WordPit is nice for an educational/research site. Like the games name Literati and Bookworm are directly related as these are word games.
It is really easy to remember. But I am not sure what sorta educational content will you have in it? ummm I mean I would like it if it is name of a vocabulary or dictionary sort of site.
Regards
Maryam