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Sorry but I don't see anything wrong with it. Personally I prefer a relevant (if cutesy) name like status.ly and enrolled.in than a made up nonsense name like G
by AmberShah 16y ago
Sorry but I don't see anything wrong with it. Personally I prefer a relevant (if cutesy) name like status.ly and enrolled.in than a made up nonsense name like Google. Besides, success and time will make these names seem normal and in 5 years there will be brand new silly trends to scoff at.
- nroach 16y agoThere are two potential problems, one legal and one perceptual. On the legal side, you may run into trademark issues if your name isn't sufficiently different from a generic term. You can already see this problem in Apple's App Store. When you search for "flashlight", you get a lot of generically-named apps. None of them can prevent any of the others from using a confusingly similar name because they're all based off a generic term. The second problem is one of branding. It's the same basic issue as the legal trademark issue, but from a different perspective. In the end, it's about confusion on the part of your customer/buyer. Trademark attempts to use the legal system to prevent confusion. Marketing uses branding and ad-spending to achieve the same goal.