Zillow
Posted in Blend Names, Company Names, Good Names, Metonymy, Names, Soft Names on January 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
As a denizen of the Emerald City, the Name Inspector has been intrigued by the meteoric rise of the online real estate service Zillow, and has speculated on the origins of their name. Those speculations, though enjoyable, have turned out to be pointless, because it says right there on their website how they came up [...]

