Leave it to GoDaddy to be the first to really promote some of the new domain names, and have fun with it as well. But before you rush out and get a .nyc domain, available as of Nov 3, you…
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What’s Fast, Free and has a Funny Name?
First of all, full credit for the title of this blog belongs to Business Week magazine. Interestingly enough that was the title of the article in print, but online the same article is titled “Hadoop data software spreads beyond Silicon…
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
Alibaba steals Wall St with brilliant, courageous name
In all the hoopla surrounding Alibaba Group’s IPO, am I the only one stopping to think about what a strange, and brilliant, name choice Alibaba was for the first company, and now the group? No Jack Ma did not pick…
Naming Disaster on Inc 500 List
Finding your company on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing small businesses must be exciting. Well at least until you notice that there is another company, in the same category, with the same name as you, in a neighboring…
Tagged with: Creative Naming, Naming resources
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Naming Education, Naming News, Trademarks
Posted in Branding, Domain Names, Naming Education, Naming News, Trademarks
Sony gaming site goes down from lack of a simple renewal
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…
Tagged with: domain protection, new domain names
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…
Tagged with: Creative Naming, Naming resources
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…
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
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