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Some of these suggestions are awful. This explosion of companies named phoodcaphe.com and this dropping the e is not a good trend. It's cheap knockoffs of a f
by LPTS 18y ago
Some of these suggestions are awful.
This explosion of companies named phoodcaphe.com and this dropping the e is not a good trend. It's cheap knockoffs of a few successful companies and products that did it well, like iMac and Flickr. You will not get the same advantages is terms of uniqueness and descriptiveness unless you do it well, which, if you're using nameboy, you're not.
Also, if you aren't inclined towards verbal skills you really should delegate the decision to someone who is. You need a visionary idea that distills all the hard creative and technical work you did down into a word or two. Harder then haiku or poetry, and the result of that decision is going to be the lens through which the world views your technical work. A bad decision here could cripple your company, and a good one could make everything from funding to securing partners to advertising easier. Take it as seriously as any other part of your business.
- sabat 18y ago"explosion of companies named phoodcaphe.com and this dropping the e is not a good trend. It's cheap knockoffs of a few successful companies and products that did it well" Some of the names are awful, I agree. But most of these companies -- including Flickr -- are using this kind of technique because all the domain names in the world are already taken. It's a defensive/desperation thing.
- LPTS 18y agoI must of got really lucky because we got our first choice (for facing customers) and second choice (for facing Doctors) and third choice (for facing investors/internal). I also got the websites I wanted for my music composition hobby. Not one person had anything we went for across .com, net, or org. Our conversation went like this. "Blah blah" "Blah Blah" "So we're settled, we want these names?" "Yup" "I'll see if they are available." "Cool" "OK, we're golden. All done" "I'm gonna register the name for my music studio too." "Cool" "Done"