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9 CommentsI have been thinking about company names for a couple of weeks now and trying to figure out which ones capture my attention. I don't mean the brand or what the company does, just the actual name of it. When I think about the old school companies before the web, no names really stick out, but web companies names seem to capture my attention.
- Yahoo
- 9rules (oooo right up with the big dogs)
I'm not sure if you have to be a bit more creative now so you can get a good domain name, but being creative with the name just seems to be as important as everything else. I would love to start a list of creative company names (not sites, actual companies) so if you find any please list them here.
Heliophage
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
There is a hardwood floor place near me called "Long Hardwood", apparently the owner's last name is Long.
elliothere
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
I think skinnyCorp is a pretty awesome name, as well as Connected Ventures.
Nils
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
Not sure why, but the first company I thought of was not web related at all (weird, I know), it was Shell.
I especially love the Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe quote from "Some Like it Hot".
It's just a weird name for an oil company, but it sticks. No one raises an eyebrow over it.
RightOn
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
Some people do not think their names through before they set them in stone... that "Long Hardwood" one is a GREAT example.
Tyme
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
Haha, I just clipped an article the other day about bad domain names lol. Pays to think things through, write it out, etc.
Scrivs
Written Feb. 12, 2008 / Report /
Shell does stick with you. Xerox is kind of cool.
Nils
Written Feb. 12, 2008 / Report /
We (used to? not sure) have an ISP called Skynet here in Belgium — just like the evil "revolutionary neural net-based artificial intelligence" in Terminator that took over the global computer network and ruled the world.
No wait, that's Google.
Anyway, there's a cool Skynet tee here.
wrttnwrd
Written Feb. 13, 2008 / Report /
Shell is great.
Some others:
Cyberdyne Systems
Mordor (more of a non-profit really)
Wang (who can say that and not giggle?)
shadowsun7
Written Feb. 13, 2008 / Report /
The first thing that came to mind was Coke. Yeah, I know it's actually Coca Cola and all, but Coke just has a nice druggy ring to it.
Oh wait, is Coke actually a company? :\