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Living by the Numbers: What Happens When You Quantify Everything? — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:16 +0000

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By: Sam Brown

Sam Brown — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:14:32 +0000

Yrs! Great name article! :)

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By: Eligiendo el nombre adecuado para tu dominio « Blog de Luis Mondragón

Eligiendo el nombre adecuado para tu dominio « Blog de Luis Mondragón — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:21:50 +0000

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By: Catherine Cantieri, Sorted

Catherine Cantieri, Sorted — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:33:09 +0000

Oh, I hear you. I couldn’t get sorted.com or sorted.net, but I figured get-sorted would work okay. Not so much. Thus far, everyone seems to think the company name is Get Sorted, which is pretty frustrating. But at least it still gives you an idea of what I do, so I guess I should be grateful for that. :-)

By: WIll Brocklebank

WIll Brocklebank — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:24:26 +0000

The first company I started was a meeting place for creatives in the media industries and had a working title of encoreFORUM – which was atrocious… people on the phone would say “on-call forum?” and think we were either a help-site for medics or hookers.

So we changed the name… to Artism – which didn’t turn out to be much better as people usually leapt to autism and we were off on the wrong foot from the start!

By: stephenrb123

stephenrb123 — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:03:23 +0000

Hi Dawn,

This is Stephen Blankenship, co-founder of DailyBurn. Nice article, and thanks for using us as the example. From my experience, your first bullet is the most painful – almost all the domain names are taken! We cumulatively spent probably over 100 hours trying to find a domain name everyone liked. There are a handful of good tools that help make the process easier, which could make for an interesting follow-up post… just a though. Thanks!

By: neha bhushan

neha bhushan — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:49:56 +0000

hi Anne ,this is neha from India ,as u said that naming something is very important way to get someone’s attraction ,i dont agree to this fully becoz first a person or a company is known by their excellance and good works in the field and then whatever is the name ,comes in to light.so i believe name whatever u want but with full faith ,whole hearted devotion and hard work ,that will bring name and fame both for u.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:55:04 +0000

Mogulus.com just rebranded as LiveStream.com for $100k and Simulscribe.com rebranded as PhoneTag.com for $30k. I’d bet it cost them more than the price of the domain to rebrand those companies rather than picking a great name the first time around.

please insert all of the “damn cybersquatters” posts below here :)

By: jason

jason — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:39:14 +0000

Great domain name article! I also favor names that are short, 12 characters or less, always dot COM, trademark free…

It’s an art (often of desperation), picking good names that are still available for hand registration…

By: Leif Rehnström

Leif Rehnström — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:32:19 +0000

I believe naming is way more important than we know. Think of Apple’s success in the past 10 years. Is it only the design or is it also the naming of iMac, iPod and iPhone? Compare that to Sony Vaio FZ, Creative Zen or Nokia N97.

Other examples of great naming strategies: Twitter, Basecamp, 7-Eleven.

It’s definitely something inbetween science and art… ;-)