In our age of world-wide web, cybersquatting (in its broad sense) is a major problem for choosing a name for a company, organization, etc. Of course, being 20 or more years late to the party, one shouldn’t expect to easily find a good unoccupied second level domain name. However, when you more frequently hit domain names that have been reserved with the sole purpose of selling them later than domain names used for a real website you start getting angry (at least, I, personally, do).
After some trying, I figured out that instead of registering the (yet to be found) name of my project as a domain name, I can rather secure a personal domain name and host all my projects therein. This opened up a whole lot of possibilities for synthesized words ending in ‘leon’. The first one that I liked was willeon. I committed my own sin of mini-cybersquatting at GitLab, creating a group with that name (as well as another one using the mutated version willion). Yet, it didn’t feel compelling enough to throw any money at the internet domain willeon.org (willeon.com was taken and I wasn’t as interested in .com domains anyway).
The search for words ending in -l or -le so that they could be extended to -leon didn’t last long before arriving at rebelleon. I liked that one very much. What made it different from other variants is that it can be both broken down to “rebel leon” (which to some extent matches my character) and resembles the existing word rebellion. I immediately registered the domains rebelleon.me, rebelleon.org and rebellion.dev, as well as became the owner of the rebelleon organization on GitHub and of the rebelleon group on GitLab. BTW, the doman rebelleon.com was being sold for $3000 but, as I already mentioned above, I don’t care about .com that much.
P.S. The search for words ending in -l/-le that was launched in my mind couldn’t be stopped as easily as it was started and continued in the background. A hilarious result was asshole which I also can be at times.