That's probably a good idea, Megan. I need to re-do my sig at MiniGeek, too. You don't have to worry about getting into the nitty gritty of the parameters of the game. Just collect eggs and have fun!
Well, I've been naming them with Irish names. My black dragon's name essentially means "black dragon" but it is not one likely to be duplicated. You could use anagrams of your own name. If you have bred eggs, you can come up with combinations from the parent's names or something. But you are more than welcome to name a green dragon after me.
i'm pretty sure it's not a U.S. only site. I do know that it has been having some problems over the past several hours. It's just recently been moved to a new server, so I think they're still working out some bugs. If the eggs don't work, try just going to dragcave.net and see whether that gets you started. It may just be bad timing. It happens now and again. did it just time out?