Over at Domain Name Wire Andrew Alleman reports the true facts behind why Sony’s Online Gaming site recently went down for over 48 hours – someone forgot to renew a key domain name registration! This is exactly why I implore…
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Sony gaming site goes down from lack of a simple renewal
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Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Public Site Naming
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Public Site Naming
Where have all the vowels gone?
I recently saw on an ex-pats column that immigrants felt they had become American when they were used to spelling favour as favor and colour as color. Those unnecessary silent U’s are gone when you settle stateside – but it…
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Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Strange Names, Technology Names, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Strange Names, Technology Names, Trademarks
Longines – The French name for a Swiss Company
Now that we live in a consumer goods fast-pace change environment, it is nice to come across an article about some products and brands that have stood the test of time. Longines is one such brand. And it is great…
Enjoying the new Castrol Edge
I have often told people working for a company, that if they didn’t like the name or logo, there were only 3 choices available to them: Organize a program to evaluate and change it Live up to it Quit Usually…
New .Partners domain should be fun
Well those new gTLD domains are starting to rollout and I can’t wait to see how creative people are use them. While being promoted for business entities that are actual partnerships, as are common in the legal, accounting, medical, consulting,…
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Naming Education, Naming News, Naming Resources, Trademarks, Uncategorized
What The F*** would I do with a .wtf domain name?
I have been following the development and rollout of the new gTLD’s for some time. This means all the new domains we can start to register this year. A lot of them are very practical and long overdue in English,…
Oh how we love Lolly Wolly Doodle
Yesterday I was thinking we are going through a boring patch of only corny tech new names, and then today I see a company called Lolly Wolly Doodle featured on the cover of Inc. magazine. I love names that make…
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Strange Names, Trademarks
See how pronunciation changes when you spell it Flo Rida.
Since I don’t follow rap music or popular TV music shows, I had never heard about the rap artist named Flo Rida until today. And when I went looking for her picture, first thing I found out was that this…
Posted in Branding, Famous Quotes, Name Changes, Name Origins, Naming News, People Names, Strange Names, Trademarks
The new domains are live. Does anyone care?
Insiders and namiacs (like me) are excited that the new gTLD domain names are finally here and each day more and more go live. For all of those squatters out there sitting on many .com names and dreaming of hitting…
Coldwater Creek – R.I.P. but what a great name!
The big consumer news today seems to be all about Coldwater Creek filing for bankruptcy as they plan to wind down all operations. So be it, but why did such a news item from a store chain I have not…
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