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[{"user_id": 8269, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297742311.845022, "message": "Just curious. Am currently in the process of trying to name something I am working on with a few friends.", "group_id": 250, "id": 109126}, {"user_id": 8269, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297742749.6986239, "message": "I'm not looking for specific advice on how to name mine. I'm just interested in the processes that people go through to name theirs. This was inspired by this post: http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how-bvckup-got-its-name", "group_id": 250, "id": 109141}, {"user_id": 1809, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297826627.016855, "message": "We named our company happyMedium. We were looking for something evocative (meaning evokes thoughts greater than the weight of just the words), made of plain language (not made up or mis-spelled) and also having at least some connection to what we do (servant marketing)", "group_id": 250, "id": 117495}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297909570.314786, "message": "that feels like an iphone auto-correct gone awry", "group_id": 250, "id": 128702}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297909545.5711541, "message": "@nrose servant marketing?", "group_id": 250, "id": 128694}, {"user_id": 1809, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914451.9922111, "message": "heh, naw, it's a thing. We make services instead of ads. http://www.thinkhappymedium.com", "group_id": 250, "id": 129260}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914715.2498629, "message": "@nrose yeah, @leah asked me for feedback, so I was really going crazy on it for a while", "group_id": 250, "id": 129272}, {"user_id": 1809, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914508.4767821, "message": "servant leadership is a philosophy where you lead a company by thinking first \"how can I serve the people I work with,\" servant marketing is \"how can my marketing serve my customers\" instead of syphon away time, energy, goodwill like normal ads do", "group_id": 250, "id": 129263}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914722.9395199, "message": "in the two weeks before they launched", "group_id": 250, "id": 129274}, {"user_id": 1809, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914634.3727851, "message": "@djchall wow you've really been digging into the convore.. 1,000+ messages already?", "group_id": 250, "id": 129270}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297914526.461185, "message": "ah i see", "group_id": 250, "id": 129265}, {"user_id": 1809, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297915020.11272, "message": "friends/neighbors or something? I find her charming, I think I saw her do an intro video for pownce or somesuch. it's hard to find people who can code but that you'd also want to hang out with.", "group_id": 250, "id": 129288}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297916409.024694, "message": "@nrose we worked together at six apart", "group_id": 250, "id": 129353}, {"user_id": 12892, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297973625.57394, "message": "I called my company Javelin because I was planning to do Java on Linux. Now I'm making iPhone games - you never know...", "group_id": 250, "id": 135343}, {"user_id": 1590, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297977783.602072, "message": "\"Pocket Sevens\" came from a few places. It's a poker reference, the pocket part references the fact that I build iPhone apps (they fit in your pocket, get it? :) and the sevens part comes from my birthday, July 7.", "group_id": 250, "id": 136111}, {"user_id": 13327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297978538.2283449, "message": "my answer: n02.", "group_id": 250, "id": 136269}, {"user_id": 13327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1297978581.286217, "message": "sorry, no2. (:", "group_id": 250, "id": 136276}, {"user_id": 14161, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298234172.1948071, "message": "Seems funny, but naming can be kinda painstaking.  My team and I recently named a new feature and it took what felt like forever to come to an agreement.  We ended up going with a random, made-up name, as opposed to something that described the feature.  We thought that this way, we could really define it ourselves.", "group_id": 250, "id": 154706}, {"user_id": 11933, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298343514.571914, "user_id": 14022}], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298240003.0925009, "message": "here's a little well-kept secret :) http://www.bustaname.com/", "group_id": 250, "id": 154885}, {"user_id": 8985, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298300090.393939, "message": "Usually i play with abbreviations when finding a great name. Also cause alot of the more traditional domains are taken.", "group_id": 250, "id": 159085}, {"user_id": 14475, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298317930.3121071, "message": "bustaname.com and dotamator.com are both good resources", "group_id": 250, "id": 165347}, {"user_id": 3766, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298322449.0858679, "message": "@frankieammons yes, bustaname is good but never heard of dotamator.. Fyi, site does not loads up", "group_id": 250, "id": 169460}, {"user_id": 3766, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298322627.1064091, "message": "I usually write the words that are related to the business plan, and then i try those words with domain suggestion tools...", "group_id": 250, "id": 169631}, {"user_id": 3766, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298322754.4363041, "message": "But you should do that 3 - 4 times, once a day. it may sound weird but worked for me.", "group_id": 250, "id": 169753}, {"user_id": 14227, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298324971.462193, "message": "I would second the bustaname idea, looks like a great resource. Even though when creating a name I will usually just use thesaurus.com and just brainstorm off ideas from there.", "group_id": 250, "id": 171640}, {"user_id": 14559, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298342740.5895309, "message": "do most of you guys name your company in conjunction with the domain name, or do you focus on the name independently, then try to mold a domain to fit?", "group_id": 250, "id": 176612}, {"user_id": 14559, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298342856.664927, "message": "cause you can always go the route of preceding the name with \"the\" or \"get\" a la facebook and dropbox, until your business is proven successful...THEN you reach into your wallets to pay for the REAL name ;)", "group_id": 250, "id": 176618}, {"user_id": 2451, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298343468.2555079, "message": "i won't name a business before acquiring the domain name. In this day and age it's an integral part of any marketing efforts.", "group_id": 250, "id": 176656}, {"user_id": 13309, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298387910.7595251, "message": "Naming things is hard, companies even more so. what worked for us was bringing the team together over food, wine, music and lengthy conversation *not* focused on the name. By not focusing we found one that worked for us (more elaborate story here - http://potlach.org/feast/2007/04/08/zepheira/ )", "group_id": 250, "id": 179620}, {"user_id": 14776, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298407188.0147231, "message": "I am in the process as well. I use a bunch of different tools to come up with variations on words. Good for finding similar words or unlikely words with the same meaning you are looking for: http://www.onelook.com/ Some of it is funny some of it just helps you come up with other ideas: http://www.dotomator.com/ Then I looked up the domain name using http://ajaxwhois.com/ for speed.", "group_id": 250, "id": 182442}, {"user_id": 14894, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298420555.810051, "message": "I'm working alone (so far ...) so I use http://thesaurus.com and try to get creative with the english language and see if I can get the domain for it.  Another strategy is to use landmarks that are meaningful to you, but that will depend on the business as in whether that name will convey enough for your marketing to work. Or you can always use a made up word from your childhood or adolescent years. I am using all 3 of these strategies", "group_id": 250, "id": 185231}, {"user_id": 14902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298421009.1746459, "message": "@erimille I agree with you here. Putting together teams and then letting whatever comes out come out on its own accord without forcing, especially over good food and drink, is an excellent way to progress any idea.", "group_id": 250, "id": 185253}, {"user_id": 15100, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298480505.3420091, "message": "Definitely do NOT use http://www.writtenhumor.com/snooptranslator.html to help you name your business.  I can say with great authority it will fizzle bizzle tizzle...", "group_id": 250, "id": 188726}, {"user_id": 14475, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298480953.4638159, "message": "@Magazine3 http://www.dotomator.com/ should work", "group_id": 250, "id": 188812}, {"user_id": 15342, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298487092.213789, "message": "The thesaurus is a good start. I also like to go old school with a pencil and paper, pick a base idea and just write whatever comes to mind. Then just pare it down from there. For me it helps to have as little friction as possible between having ideas and recording them.", "group_id": 250, "id": 189829}, {"user_id": 9018, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298496084.9263721, "message": "2 solid days of trying out different word combinations before we get the naming structure that worked for us and the 50 or so domains we needed to buy\n\neg RedCarBlue\nwhere \"Car\" is the variable\n\nWe'd get to about 40 or so and find RedCatBlue and 10 others etc were taken.\n\nPeople are so lazy naming their companies - i laughed when one of the judges for round2 couldn't remember the name of the company - if someone cant repeat back your company anme you just pitched them 10 mins ago then you suck. try again.", "group_id": 250, "id": 191328}, {"user_id": 15541, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298529798.3884079, "message": "No joke I think that urbandictionary.com is a good place to get word ideas. You can find some less-used variations of words (everyone has tried the thesaurus already). Plus, you might find less-known meanings of words that may change your decision to use them.", "group_id": 250, "id": 195823}, {"user_id": 15941, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298647040.1070099, "message": "coffee.  coffee.  coffee and one colleague with vision.  coffee and lightness of attitude, everything on the table. coffee, and a mobile browser to check domain names.", "group_id": 250, "id": 208505}, {"user_id": 15889, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298795245.871268, "message": "Nilee - games, just wanted to name my company 3 years before. searched on net a good name but failed to get. last a name striked \"Nile\" which is a river but this name also was registered but its as similar to my first crush in school days. so i added extra \"E\". So name become Nilee and my first crush name was Nileem . Strange but lucky name \"Nilee\".", "group_id": 250, "id": 216830}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298942879.8431449, "message": "Alpha One Labs - just sounded cool :)", "group_id": 250, "id": 230732}, {"user_id": 2841, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1298944019.911166, "message": "I've squatted a few cool domains by using random generators like http://www.company-name-generator.com/", "group_id": 250, "id": 230844}, {"user_id": 17546, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1299238190.585151, "message": "There was an article on hn a while back describing choosing a domain name by writing a script that generates every 5 letter combination ending in ly or er or it or whatever suffix you want to use, then feeding it to godaddys bulk register to seeing what names are available.", "group_id": 250, "id": 268948}, {"user_id": 8501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1299250226.058749, "message": "@matwill is referring to http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/11/08/how-we-used-a-python-script-to-find-our-domain-name-yipit/", "group_id": 250, "id": 269822}, {"user_id": 8501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1299250728.779321, "message": "I've always had luck finding names with http://nxdom.com. http://wordoid.com is also useful.", "group_id": 250, "id": 269910}, {"user_id": 9445, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1299395041.939929, "message": "1. is the domain available? 2. when you type it on iPhone, does the auto-correct mess it up? 3. make sure it doesn't paint you into a corner (ex: \"tweetdeck\" makes it hard to go beyond twitter)", "group_id": 250, "id": 278870}, {"user_id": 13676, "stars": [], "topic_id": 5911, "date_created": 1299522475.3741069, "message": "Come up with industry terms... then thesaurus.com and play on words, search to see if domain name is there.", "group_id": 250, "id": 289445}]