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What’s a good name?
You have this great idea for a business or organization. Now what are you going to call it? Here are 5 suggestions:
- Available
- It’s easy to find a unique local name, but think globally.
- Make sure you can secure the domain name.
- Meaningful
- Comcast - Communication Broadcast.
- FedEx - Federal Express.
- Google is a mis-spelling of Googol, the number, a one followed by 100 zeroes! A very big number which accurately represents their big ambitions.
- Raytheon - “Light of the gods.” Maker of missiles.
- Memorable
- Apple, eBay, Google, Pixar, Yahoo! are a few memorable names.
- Short
- No one likes to type a long domain name.
- Unambiguous
- Only one way to spell it (saves buying many domain names).
- Watch out for numbers mixed with letters.
CATEGORIES: Business
TAGS: apple, brand, comcast, ebay, fedex, google, pixar, raytheon, startup, yahoo
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August 14th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Wow. I really thought this blurb was interesting and completly relevant to creating a name. I wonder if we should follow the same rules for naming children?
August 16th, 2007 at 12:58 am
People should be named the same way corporations are :)