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Help name a Fiber ISP
I'm looking for help to name a new Fiber ISP based in Michigan. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated!
- ubertaco 10y agoPure Fiber? (playing off of the Pure Michigan tourism slogan)
- pmccarren 10y agoAh that's a very interesting concept. I appreciate your time! Thank you!
- neoncontrails 10y agoWhen I think 'fiber,' I think of a fast, tensile, vaguely biological apparatus whose overarching job is to shunt. For an edgy, thundrous, monosyllabic word, 'Shunt' works quite nicely for an ISP I think. It's fun to say, too: 'Shunt.'
- pmccarren 10y agoThinking about it from a biological perspective is quite intriguing. I agree, 'Shunt' is indeed fun to say and the monosyllabic nature is a sure plus. I wonder if it has too much of a negative tone as it is very similar to 'shun'. Thoughts?
- breakingcups 10y agoWell the negative review write themselves
- keane 10y agoStreamleap / CloudStream / Flyhop / SkipEcho / Fibereal / Fiberate / Fiberising / Fiberide / Surefire Fiber / SureFiber / Foolproof / Strongfiber / Woven / Verifiber / built / Amplitude
- adamretter 10y agoLoom or Weave?
- adamretter 10y agoOr perhaps just Fabric
- pmccarren 10y agoLove the simplicity of it. Could definitely build a strong analogous marketing campaign around laying fiber is to stitching the service together. Also could go the route of a strand of glass is the thread in which we sew you into the fabric of the Internet but I suspect this would be lost by the average consumer.
- freestockoption 10y agoMichigan Fiber FiberOne FiberHand (playing off Michigan looks like a hand) How important is it to have fiber or relations to fiber in the name?
- pmccarren 10y agoI believe FiberOne is already taken by a different type of fiber ;) It is not important nor a requirement to have the word 'Fiber' in the name. A possibility is to have <epic name> and then attach 'fiber' secondarily (e.g. "Google Fiber").
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoBraid.
- gesman 10y agoFiberLight
- pmccarren 10y agoI've been playing with 'light', 'lumens', 'illuminate' and 'photon' as base words but haven't yet come across something that seems to fit. However I'm always open to any and all suggestions :)
- chris_va 10y agoiRefract (just kidding) Do you want "Fiber" in the name? "Web"? "Internet"? "Michigan"? (riffing off keane) - FiberStream - EchoLine - CloudLine
- pmccarren 10y agoHah might as well just go iFiber ;) There are no inclusion requirements for the name.
- pasbesoin 10y agoWell, FiberUP -- but I doubt that's your geographic center. ;-) FiberUS -- potential for use beyond Michigan. FiberMi or FiberMI -- could pronounce "me", though might be confusing. I like ubertaco's "Pure Fiber". I trust you are to the premises? ;-)
- pmccarren 10y agoHah I was thinking along very similar lines! One name that has occurred to me is MiFiber (pronounced My Fiber") to play off the Michigan concept. I do think that Pure Fiber is a pretty smooth name.
- tucaz 10y agoMyFiber
- tomkap 10y agoFibernet
- type0 10y agoOpticon or FastNet
- Mz 10y agoI am less tech savvy than a lot of people here on HN. I had to look up fiber and the first hits were for dietary fiber. But it looks like you mean high speed internet. If so, I will suggest you go with something that a generic internet user doesn't need to Google to comprehend. I assume you want to sell to everyone, not just tech insiders, since everyone needs internet these days. Plus "Sell to the masses, live with the classes. Sell to the classes, live with the masses." So: Data Demon Mi Data Demon Mi Broadband Mi Internet Mi-Fi
- tylercubell 10y agoQuickhatch. One of Michigan's state nicknames is "The Wolverine State" and quickhatch is another term for a wolverine. It has the word "quick" in it which gets across the message that fiber = fast. Additionally it's low competition in Google as the only results that come up are a knife company and a few dictionary listings. Boom. Check please. :)