Update: A little late, but I finally got around to installing Ubuntu again and creating a blog on the domain.

Finding a good domain name can be very random.

Every once in a while I look through top stories on digg. Today I came across the article that talked about the next release of Ubuntu – 10.04 codenamed Lucid Lynx.

I was thinking about a domain for a new directory as I was reading the article. Than I thought about lucid lynx and what a great name it can be for one. After checking lucidlinks, which was taken, I tried lucidlynx.com. To my surprise it was available, as long as .net, .org and all the rest. I bought the .com, and left .net and .org in case you still want to buy one (assuming you are the first one reading it) since the value may go up by April 2010.

I don’t think that I will be making a directory on lucidlynx though, unless 10.04 changes the code name closer to the release date. I actually ran Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, for a while. It was pretty interesting to mess with it since I haven’t had Linux installed for several years, see all the changes to the kernel, UI and applications. I had to let it go since I installed it on my new i7 with all the new hardware and Jaunty didn’t have my video card drivers.

Anyway, to make a long story short, now I am thinking to install Lucid Lynx when it becomes available and blog about all the useful commands, learning experiences and tips. Just a plan for now, who knows, may be I will do something different with it down the road.

I thought I would post this article just to show how sometimes you can get a pretty valuable domain name or an idea as soon as you hear about something coming out. Even though you may think that digg is a distraction most of the time, you can always make something useful out of it.