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Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Sports Naming, Trademarks
Absolutdata forced to run from their own trademark application.
I am not a teetotaler (well not quite) nor a prude, but I still don’t like software companies named after alcohol drinks. Yes I know Blue Martini was successful for a while, but I never could bring myself to even…
Why Airbnb is a really cool, good name
I am not so sure about the logo, but for a service that thrives so much on word of mouth and word of mouse, not to mention publicity to spread the brand name, who cares. But for those of you…
Pono – The iPod for the serious audiofile
In the older tech days, there was the MP3 players and the Digital Audio players, and they all had such generic descriptive names you could not remember which one came from Dell or Creative or Sony or Microsoft. Then that…
Posted in Branding, Consumer Goods, Name Origins, Naming Education, Naming News, Technology Names, Trademarks
Where will names come from in 2015?
For 2015 many news magazines are predicting that the age of innovation is alive and well. For me that translates into lots more products, systems, solutions and start-up companies. All of which need a name. So how will the management…
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
Voya – A Voyeur to take you on the Voyage of life?
As a naming professional I know how hard it is to come up with new names. Especially short ones. So in that sense I applaud ING changing their name to Voya. Why it has to be so short and awkward…
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…
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
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