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108 Responses to “10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and cons”

1. on 23 Feb 2007 at 6:46 pm   Jajah

   Christopher,

   I enjoyed reading your post before taking off for the weekend. And of course it becomes harder and harder to find a brand/company name nowadays which is short/concise and still available as a couple of top level domains. We are happy with the result honoring Jajah Watamba.

   Thanks for having us in mind and talk Jajah

   Have a great weekend and best regards,

   Frederik

2. on 23 Feb 2007 at 10:40 pm   Greg

   Don’t you think Netscape is really a blend of net + seascape (not landscape), given all of the other nautical themes of Netscape?

3. on 26 Feb 2007 at 4:16 pm   Mark Bean

   What about latin sounding names? e.g. Incantis and another would be numbers e.g. Office20.com

   Any insight on those types of company name?

4. on 26 Feb 2007 at 6:31 pm   CyberMage

   I wasn’t aware that Microsoft was a smoosh of “Micro” and “Ware”.

   Makes you think, doesn’t it?

5. on 26 Feb 2007 at 7:33 pm   The Name Inspector

   Greg: Yeah, I guess that makes more sense. I forgot about that whole nautical thing Netscape had going.

   CyberMage: Oops, put the bold in the wrong place–thanks for that (I changed it).

   Mark: Classical-sounding names are indeed a whole category unto themselves. They were really a trend in the early 1990s, with Pentium and Acura and all the rest. I didn’t make that a category here, because it’s less a structural property than a matter of how recognizably Latin or Greek the origins of the parts are. Attensa is a good example of a Latinate name, but I categorized it with the other tweaked words.

   As for number names, they probably deserve a post of their own. I had a few things to say about them in my analysis of the name 37signals.

6. on 26 Feb 2007 at 9:08 pm   Rajan

   There is one category that you might want to look at which is neologism, being from India I love neologism which are based in Sanskrit.

   Did you know that Viagra was a sankrit derived from the word ‘vyāghrßh’.
   http://www.langmaker.com/db/Phono-semantic_matching

   My startup ‘Motvik’(www.motvik.com) is another sanskrit neologism which is simillar to the sanskrit word ’satvik’. ‘Satvik’ mean the one who has ’satva’(pious) ‘guna’(property). On that line we came up with Motvik as one with ‘mobile’ ‘guna’.

   Rajan

7. on 26 Feb 2007 at 10:47 pm   Bad Language / A rose by any other name

   [...] This blog has an interesting post about how other companies chose their name and Salon published a great article about the process of naming. [Added a year later, I also like The Name Inspector’s blog] [...]

8. on 26 Feb 2007 at 10:48 pm   ia

   somebody contests the origin of zillow here:

   http://qwerky.stellify.net/sites/zillow#comment-4939

   i’m tracking the weirder names of web 2.0 there. i don’t have ten, like your post.

9. on 26 Feb 2007 at 10:49 pm   Matthew Stibbe (Bad Language)

   Great post. I wish I had seen it a year ago. Reader’s might be interested in the process by which I came up with my company name. I don’t offer it as a role model, but I tried to document my thinking process clearly and that might be interesting: http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=72

10. on 27 Feb 2007 at 12:42 am   John Newton

    You might add that few brand names have been successful with more than 3 syllables. When we started Documentum (4 syl), the only brand that we could think of that had 4 was Panasonic.

    I wrote about our experience here: http://newton.typepad.com/content/2006/04/whats_in_a_name.html

11. on 27 Feb 2007 at 2:08 am   S Hassan

    Great post interesting to read,
    I would loveto hear your opinion in translating names for example is it all right to translate a name from English to another language? or just leave it the same?
    I am planning to name my start up “one2one” Trade events and meetings
    also will love to know your opinion Is it a good Name? it will be in the middle east so the official language is Arabic but almost all of the business community use English in names and all business corresponds but you have to have an Arabic name also weather it is a translation of your company name in English or the same name but written in Arabic it is up to you , but it is really difficult some time to translate a name as you well know it might give it a entirely different meaning

12. on 27 Feb 2007 at 3:00 am   Alex

    It is a great guide even for those online earners who do not run web 2.0. start-ups. I have made a few poor choices of domain names in the past – would not like to do it again.

13. on 27 Feb 2007 at 9:31 am   Angel Invenstment Journal » Squirrel Nut Zippers.com

    [...] Chris at the NameInspector, has a good post on Web 2.0 names. It covers 10 categories that encompass nearly all Web 2.0 companies. He has some other interesting posts which you may want to check out including one on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, How to Change the World. [...]

14. on 27 Feb 2007 at 11:53 am   hans

    Another benefit of compounds and phrases is the opportunity to create a double entendre. Our name, postreach, uses the word ‘post’ both as a noun (blog post) and as a prefix (post=after).

15. on 27 Feb 2007 at 3:28 pm   Naming Stories: Tinfinger : The Name Inspector

    [...] In the typology of names, Tinfinger counts as a compound rather than a portmanteau (blend), because it consists of two whole words rather than word parts. The sound is natural and easy, and gets a little poetry from the near-rhyme of the first two syllables. In the orthography this is reflected in the repetition of in, and enhanced by the similarity of the letters T and f. [...]

16. on 27 Feb 2007 at 4:18 pm   links for 2007-02-28 | BrandBrains

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17. on 27 Feb 2007 at 4:43 pm   John Koetsier

    Google Talk totally belongs in #3, Phrases. It’s just like Yahoo! Answers, and I’ve never heard anyone refer to it as googletalk.

    Thanks for the analysis – very interesting!

18. on 27 Feb 2007 at 5:54 pm   Startup Your Lists at Deeplinking

    [...] 10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch Compound or blend? (tags: business analysis language) [...]

19. on 28 Feb 2007 at 2:03 am   Brian Laks

    I have to agree with the popularity of compound names. That is the strategy I have used for many of the pages on my site with great results. For example, brownbeaver, smoothcall, and windfarmer, though, those are adj-noun, adj-verb, noun-verb (i see the noun-verb most frequently). I even thought about making a page called nounverber, but alas, it was already taken!

    To a lesser degree I resort to blends like roboprophet and videonomics. Check out my keyphrase page for some others.

    Great article! I thought I was the only crazy person out there…

20. on 28 Feb 2007 at 7:19 am   Massimiliano

    Firefox is not a compound word since it is the name of the Red Panda so it should go in the real words category.

21. on 28 Feb 2007 at 8:09 am   Eric Kline

    There are many 4 syllable brand names: Mitsubishi, Black & Decker, Ben & Jerry’s, Motorola, Osterizer. They all seem to have that iambic rhythm OSTerIzer, BLACK and DECKer, etc. It flows out easy, so it’s not much harder than a two syllable name.

    The Latin, Greek, Sanskrit names seem to me to fit into the “obscure origin” although some have become so generic that they are just bad names. Examples are Polaris, Mercury, Eureka, Oracle, etc.

    I find that names with punctuation or odd capitalization, like Pro/Engineer are frustrating, because there are too many variations on their use. People do not consistently spell them the same. Also they cannot be used many times because the / and . cannot be used in file names on computers. I see Pro/E as Pro-E, ProE, Pro_E, and Pro/E which makes the name hard to find with a search engine.

22. on 28 Feb 2007 at 8:24 am   Mostly Technical

    Thanks for the article. It’s harder and harder to think of a good domain name that isn’t taken. Your ideas will help feed my lateral-thinking engine!

23. on 28 Feb 2007 at 8:40 am   Discover Doug » Archives » How to Choose a Good Domain Name

    [...] I found this interesting article about domain names on the LearningCentre forum. The article covers ten types of domain name, with a description, pros, cons and examples of each. Here is a summary of the name types: [...]

24. on 28 Feb 2007 at 8:42 am   Rob

    In the Pros and Cons section, you might add an additional test: if a name contains a unique combination of characters, it will be much easier to search for. These days, names like “Apple” and “Adobe” are not so good, since they can’t be easily searched for.

    Years ago, friends of mine went for a “made up” name when starting a business. They chose “Milum”. It sounded vaguely familiar and sort of Latin. Then the internet came along and they found that having a unique name was really helpful.

25. on 28 Feb 2007 at 1:13 pm   In The Works » Blog Archive » Words and Language

    [...] Guy Kawasaki’s last two posts over at How to Change the World have focused on language and how people use words to express ideas. Yesterday he pointed readers to The Name Inspector, a PhD in linguistics blogger who has great insights into, you guessed it, names–especially those of businesses. Take this insight on the naming of Apple: Apple Computers is a great name. It’s a model solution to a problem faced by all technology companies: how to make something that’s fundamentally abstract and mysterious seem accessible and appealing. [...]

26. on 28 Feb 2007 at 1:31 pm   Fred

    Hi, Chris –

    I very much enjoyed this post. By the way, I believe you mean “Bix Beiderbecke”.

    best,
    Fred

27. on 28 Feb 2007 at 3:06 pm   blog.cguy.org » C’est quoi ton nom?

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28. on 01 Mar 2007 at 12:38 am   spotplex vs. digg vs. ? at Alex Mayrhofer

    [...] As the buzz withing the web 2.0 crowd spreads faster day by day,TechCrunch speculates whether spotplex is a better digg. Instead of using explicit votes by site members, spotplex (whose name might be something between a compound and blend, according to this nice classification) uses actual page views on blog posts to rank them. [...]

29. on 01 Mar 2007 at 8:29 am   Sonny

    A hosting company I used to work for used a billing product named Ubersmith. When we asked them about it, they said it was a prefix and a suffix smashed together.

    I used to ask them a lot about it, because it seemed like such a bizarre word that was hard to remember.

    They said that people used to mispronounce it all the time, but once they got the hang of it, it was easy! Their argument was that it was a name they could define, rather than getting lost in the crowd.

30. on 01 Mar 2007 at 7:50 pm   What’s in a Name? « Entrepreneur Architect

    [...] The Name Inspector has a great blog all about naming. In this post, he uses the TechCrunch Company/Product Index to help us understand how names can be categorized into 10 types: [...]

31. on 02 Mar 2007 at 9:29 am   Cosmox

    The science and art of naming is facinating.

    I gravitate toward the rhythmic-sounding names, thus MightyFineHouse.

    I have a great deal of admiration for the truly fun names out like Yahoo! and Woot.

    … and I’ve never understood Amazon.

    Thanks for the great article!

32. on 02 Mar 2007 at 11:51 am   Rob Lord

    Thanks for the mention.

    FYI, Songbird isn’t a compound word; It’s a real word:
    http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?songbird

    Best, Rob

33. on 03 Mar 2007 at 11:34 am   Jonas

    Nice summary! It´s really facinating how deep you can go in the “art of naming”.

34. on 03 Mar 2007 at 11:42 am   etools blogg » Fördelar och nackdelar med olika företagsnamn

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35. on 04 Mar 2007 at 2:33 pm   Gary

    Hi – I am tempting to build a brand – Scarecrow Consulting. The feedback is that people do remember – but lots like to take the Mickey – is this because they do not have creative bones in their bodies?

    Gary

    http://www.scarecrowconsulting.co.uk

36. on 06 Mar 2007 at 2:29 pm   noname-community project » Wie nenne ich denn das Neugeborene Web 2.0 Baby?

    [...] Wie sehen aber nun die Namen im Web 2.0 aus? Guy Kawasaki hat einen interessanten Artikel gefunden, wo jemand fast das komplette Namensregister von Techcrunch durchgeht und die Namensgebung erläutert. Die Namen werden unterteilt in: [...]

37. on 07 Mar 2007 at 1:45 pm   Jason Alba

    This is a great post – I had a ton of fun with my own company name (JibberJobber.com) and there are some interesting things tied to it. People would frequently say “I’ve heard of that” when they were probably mixing it up with Jibber Jabber or something like that.

    Anyway, its been fun, clever, etc. Even though its longer than what I’m used to, it rolls off the tongue and is easy to spell and remember. And its ties into career management with the “job” part…. cool stuff.

    Oh yeah, in fairness, my buddy came up with me. I had boring name ideas. His was a no-brainer.

38. on 09 Mar 2007 at 1:50 am   Ionut

    Hi, I have some problems understanding the trademark principles.
    I doubt these names can be registered as trademark:

    Mybloglog
    Multiply
    Payperpost
    Indeed

    what do you think ?

    Another question, I’ve bought some domain names a little while ago with intention of developing them, now I’m wondering if they have any value on domain names market. Can you guys take a look ?
    http://www.domainnamesauction.org/

    Thanks

39. on 09 Mar 2007 at 11:53 am   Mi otro blog… » Blog Archive » Los nombres de los servicios web 2.0

    [...] Dejando a un lado la categoría “divertido aunque inútil” a la que he dedicado el párrafo anterior, en un reciente e interesante artículo titulado “10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and cons” del blog The Name Inspector, podréis comprobar que los nombres de las aplicaciones web 2.0 en pueden clasificarse en 10 grupos: [...]

40. on 09 Mar 2007 at 1:03 pm   Start a StartUp » Name your startup:

    [...] If you manage to go through a few names on Techcrunch, like The Name Inspector you will find a few patterns: [...]

41. on 09 Mar 2007 at 4:19 pm   Search engine names: 10 types + mashonyms : The Name Inspector

    [...] The post on 10 company name types was so well received that The Name Inspector has decided, shamelessly, to make a sequel. This time we’ll look at names for lesser-known search engines, in which The Name Inspector has a special interest. [...]

42. on 10 Mar 2007 at 6:31 am   BrainBlog » Blog Archive » Product naming

    [...] Chris Johnson from The Name Inspector wrote a really interesting article about the pros and cons of product naming, splitting everything up in the following categories: [...]

43. on 11 Mar 2007 at 9:00 am   Vero Pepperrell

    Just like Ionut, I’m interested in how easily trademarking “Multiply” and “Indeed” would be? They’re such common words!

    I never thought much of business name creation, ours came out of necessity – We chose pepsmedia for our web dev & marketing company since prospective clients spelling Pepperrell Media correctly was unlikely to happen

44. on 12 Mar 2007 at 1:15 am   Shiley

    What about metacafe? how would you define it?

45. on 16 Mar 2007 at 2:06 pm   Skype : The Name Inspector

    [...] What makes Skype unusual? First, while sky peer-to-peer is an extremely descriptive name for a peer-to-peer telephony service that works worldwide, the -pe portion of Skype is almost impossible to associate with peer-to-peer unless you’re told to. So Skype is really more like a tweak of the word sky. When looked at that way, the name is still unusual because the addition of a single consonant to the end of a word (The Name Inspector is talking about the pronunciation here, not the spelling) is a very uncommon naming strategy. No tweaked word names on the TechCrunch index list or the alternative search engine list are derived that way. [...]

46. on 26 Mar 2007 at 4:01 pm   10 tips for naming your company, product, or service : The Name Inspector

    [...] One good way to increase youir chances of having great name ideas is to try creating different types of name. You might start with The Name Inspector’s classification of names and try to think of something in each category. This will make you consider possibilities you otherwise might overlook, and will help you learn what kind of name is right for your company, product, or service. [...]

47. on 03 Apr 2007 at 1:22 pm   max

    hi inspector. and thankyou for our interesting post, i enjoyed it.
    one question: what about “quote” names, one example for all: mr wolf (the pulp fiction problem-solver character)?
    ciao from milano/italy!
    max

48. on 07 May 2007 at 8:35 pm   David Smit

    This post is a vary interesting read. I created a service for finding a domain name for web applications: http://grabagooddomain.com/ It uses real people to suggest available domain names.

49. on 05 Jul 2007 at 12:18 am   Frank fernandis

    When thinking of the name for my company, I tried to conjure up what my clients are desperately seeking, Business Sanity. Thanks for pointing me to Chris Johnson’s site.

50. on 11 Oct 2007 at 1:40 pm   infovark » Playing the Name Game

    [...] Naming a company or a product is harder than you might think. It’s tough to find an interesting, unique and concise name that expresses the goals of the project in a memorable way. We consulted the Name Inspector, Vitamin, and Guy Kawasaki’s blog for help. The global nature of the Internet and the importance of keyword search means that most of the obvious — and not so obvious — company names and domain names have already been registered. [...]

51. on 30 Oct 2007 at 11:15 pm   10 tips for naming your company, product, or service - Krikor Ohannessian | The Blog

    [...] One good way to increase your chances of having great name ideas is to try creating different types of name. You might start with The Name Inspector’s classification of names and try to think of something in each category. This will make you consider possibilities you otherwise might overlook, and will help you learn what kind of name is right for your company, product, or service. [...]

52. on 01 Nov 2007 at 5:43 pm   Ron

    I think domain names with “.tv”, “.fm” extension might be used even more. Names such us, “http://www.justin.tv” or “http://www.wtop.fm”

53. on 04 Nov 2007 at 1:16 pm   Mehmet

    hi inspector.
    And thank you for our interesting post, i enjoyed it.
    But you didnt write Sony. Why?
    Mehmet from Afyon/TURKIYE
    See you.
    Bye

54. on 19 Nov 2007 at 12:38 am   Kale

    Great site, learned a lot from just a couple posts that I have read so far.

    You mention the compound type, but one that you don’t see very often is using “and” to join two words (a true compound!). What do you think about using “and” in a company or site name. The only ones you usually hear of is law firms, but it seems like they might fit in more places as well. I am starting a freelance gig on the side and was thinking of using compound name with “and”…but wonder if it is a bad idea since you don’t see it much.

55. on 20 Dec 2007 at 1:51 pm   Domain Name Generator

    There are some tools at DomainNameSoup to find some of those domains such as del.icio.us and flickr.

56. on 02 Jan 2008 at 5:03 am   Lee

    Thanks for the post. This is good inspiration for trying to think of a domain name

57. on 08 Mar 2008 at 1:22 pm   KoOoZ

    i am trying to come up with a suitable name for a software company. i am avoiding techs and softs,
    i havent found anything goodd yet, any ideas

58. on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:28 pm   Carolyn

    I am hosting a product manager training site which will run on its own domain name. The work is directed at pharmaceuticals. I am thinking the website name is Product ManageRX training 2.0 and the abbreviated version is especially important. Seems to violate all the rules listed here. should email be different? e.g. PM911 is a lot easier to remember although the connotation may not be so positive.
    Thanks very much,
    Carolyn

59. on 24 Apr 2008 at 10:21 am   Withoutabox & Unbox : The Name Inspector

    [...] start with the basics. In The Name Inspector’s typology of names, Withoutabox is a phrase name. A prepositional phrase, more specifically. Without is the [...]

60. on 22 May 2008 at 8:35 am   geap

    great info, really easy to know how to name my company now

61. on 28 May 2008 at 3:09 pm   lynnfredricks.com / The Name Inspector Offers 10 Name Types for Naming Products, Companies

    [...] Name Inspector in Seattle has posted an article entitled 10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and Cons, with a thoughtful analysis of categories the names fall into – he divides them into the following [...]

62. on 21 Jun 2008 at 9:58 am   LEON

    There’s also Reevoo and Mixx, as misspelled names, which are relatively new. http://www.leonbaileygreen.com/index.php/site/permalink/misspelled_internet_brands_names/

63. on 10 Jul 2008 at 1:32 am   Pigsaw Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2008-07-10

    [...] 10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and cons : The Name Inspector Categorising the names of tech companies (tags: naming branding marketing web2.0) [...]

64. on 18 Jul 2008 at 4:25 pm   Vijay

    The best article i read on naming companies!!

65. on 09 Aug 2008 at 1:32 pm   Bill G

    Naming a company is a job, it need knowledge. This article is really interesting, clearly some up the process of minding a company name is a good idea, find the name is another step …

    Thanks for all this article.

66. on 13 Oct 2008 at 3:01 pm   mrepro

    I agree with your first idea that Netscape is net + landscape. “Scape” is a combining form whose origins are with “landscape”.

    The nautical themes, such as the ship’s steering wheel, are as a result of “Navigator,” the name of the browser.

67. on 18 Nov 2008 at 2:56 am   Roger

    For the web 2.0 search website that I recently built, http://www.yimmiy.com, I looked at a name that is short, quick to pronounce, easy to pronounce in many languages, energetic, fun and it turned out to be a palindrome.

    The name is also to be used as a logo, which is the case in many site names.

    Do we have a category for palindromes?

    Kind regards

    Visit http://www.yimmiy.com

68. on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:15 pm   Cedar Mill Communications » Blog Archive » Finding a Good Name

    [...] of the more interesting is The Name Inspector blog who recently broke down the 10 categories that account for all the name in the TechCrunch [...]

69. on 25 Mar 2009 at 1:31 pm   queleimporta.com » Blog Archive » Company naming guides

    [...] http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-name-types/ [...]

70. on 04 Apr 2009 at 2:32 pm   Phillip Davis

    It’s always difficult to narrow naming strategies down to a set list, but this one is fairly thorough. Another popular technique/method is the use of alliteration (Best Buy, CocaCola, PayPal, LifeLock, etc) I’m not sure that would qualify as another category per se, but it helps create “sticky” names.

    Of the strategies above, the “Compounds” provide the best opportunity to find an exact matching .com domain name, while still providing a name that makes some sense.

    On the flip side, I wrote a piece in Entrepreneur on the 8 Mistakes to Avoid When Naming a Company…
    http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/startupbasics/namingyourbusiness/article76958.html

    Hopefully this proves helpful to your readers. Great piece, great analysis, keep up the good work.

71. on 25 Apr 2009 at 12:19 pm   Branding with your Domain Name - 網域名稱設計 « brand-forged resistance

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74. on 07 May 2009 at 11:57 am   Effective Strategy for Choosing Right Domain Names @ Brian Crow

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75. on 22 May 2009 at 10:26 am   אחד העם » Blog Archive » אסטרטגיה נכונה בבחירת שם דומיין

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76. on 24 May 2009 at 6:46 am   beboanswer

    bebo = blog early, blog often

77. on 28 May 2009 at 5:48 am   KARAM

    I NEED A NAME FOR MY FIRM, IT IS AN ARCHITECTURAL AND WEB DESIGN DEVELOPPERS.

78. on 30 May 2009 at 6:55 am   The Name Inspector

    Karam, please send me an email about that so I’ll have your address and be able to respond.

79. on 09 Jun 2009 at 8:47 am   dave henry

    i found a great post over at onthebutton on how to name a company or product. worth a read: http://onthebutton.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/10-ways-name-your-company-product/

80. on 20 Jun 2009 at 12:07 am   Fellow Podunkers, I Need Your Creativity - Game Podunk

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81. on 22 Jul 2009 at 11:46 pm   Conny Westh

    Great article about naming companies!

    I put my company name in the category of blends as it is made up by parts from the two words Verifying and Mentoring, and the company is “Verimentor AB” (AB is a abreviation in the swedish language for “Aktiebolag”, Aktie=share and bolag=corporation, e.g. Corporation with shares).

    This name came to my mind as the 5th try to get it accepted by the authorities , and I have already started doing business with an old company name “Jibeco 1701 AB” that was made up by the legal firm that sold the ready company off the shelf, that made me start up faster than otherwise.

    It is a fact that many company names around the world use words that is well known to the international community for naming businesses, with the intension to geting into global business some day it is of course a lot easier to use an internationally accepted company name, it whould be rather tricky to use a specific national naming convention when going global.

    Thanx again for a great webpage, with a lot of useful information!

    Regard
    Conny Westh
    Sweden

82. on 12 Aug 2009 at 7:13 am   sampath

    It really very interesting website.I really enjoy reading this.Here i am going to start a company. It is like doing projects for other companies and i want you to suggest me a good name for that can you?

83. on 14 Aug 2009 at 10:06 am   stephen

    Great website. But all the good names are already gone man!

84. on 14 Aug 2009 at 10:10 am   The Name Inspector

    Stephen, it’s not true! You just have to look hard from them.

    Sampath, I do consulting. Contact me by email if you’re interested.

85. on 08 Sep 2009 at 11:31 pm   jamesaag

    hi i wish to start a web design ,development company.i want a name for it.plz suggest!

86. on 13 Sep 2009 at 3:13 am   asghar dousti

    I need a name for a web design cpmpany
    please help me!

87. on 14 Sep 2009 at 7:43 pm   Choosing a Striking Domain Name « Gizemist

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89. on 04 Oct 2009 at 9:06 pm   iLike & Sons

    A new company name required plz.

90. on 29 Oct 2009 at 4:57 pm   Brainstorming a Tech company name « Jaffer Haider

    [...] company that I’m a part of (well, as soon as we sign an LLC with this name). A post on 10 company name types on TechCrunch is useful. Leave a [...]

91. on 11 Nov 2009 at 7:45 am   phoebe

    i want to make a name for my company ,my company who make laptop bag ,laptop skin ,privacy filter ,more…..
    laptop accessirous

92. on 23 Nov 2009 at 9:10 am   GaGa Designs » הבלוג שלנו » אסטרטגיה נכונה בבחירת שם דומיין

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93. on 13 Dec 2009 at 10:30 am   Rao Rohit Singh

    Interesting to go through the thread of commenters. I was looking for ideas to look for a name for my new company to be launched. I got my time’s worth going through all the comments. thanks.

94. on 14 Dec 2009 at 5:47 am   Sensex

    Can anyone suggest a good name in sanakrit for a tech co??

95. on 12 Jan 2010 at 2:48 pm   5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know

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98. on 15 Jan 2010 at 10:32 am   uday

    Hi,

    I want to Start a new IT Firm.

    I want to put as xxxxxx Consultancy Services or Infotech or just the name

    xxxxxxxx–Is my Company name ..Please suggest some very meaningful, or Inspirational names Or which sounds very Pleasant…I may not know you but you are playing a vital role in my future.

    Thank you in Advance

99. on 15 Jan 2010 at 10:36 am   uday

    Hi,

    I want to Start a new IT Firm.

    I want to put as xxxxxx Consultancy Servicesor Infotech or just the name

    xxxxxxxx–Is my Company name ..Please suggest some very meaningful, or Inspirational names Or which sounds very Pleasant…I may not know you but you are playing a vital role in my future.

    If time permits please mail me at udhay143@yahoo.com

    Thank you in Advance

100. on 18 Jan 2010 at 3:07 am   kevin

     hi,
     I am planning to start a Computer Networking Firm. Can you suggest me a meaningful (ie. from the name itself we can understand that which type of works are doing in that firm), simple but an elegant name? Please help me.

     with regards,
     kevin

101. on 20 Jan 2010 at 8:19 pm   5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know

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102. on 24 Jan 2010 at 10:19 am   Eric Axelson

     Kevin, with something so generic, most names will likely be taken. You may have to take it down to the local level. What geography region will you be primarily serving?

103. on 26 Jan 2010 at 12:26 am   Branding Secrets Of The World’s Best Brands « crowdSPRING Blog

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105. on 05 Mar 2010 at 10:19 am   chowdary

     i am looking one good meaning small name to my software company any buddy help me in this matter pls, good meaning will be there,good looking also will be there in that name ,
     waiting result as soon as possible
     thank you

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