discuss Domains and Phonetics

[Want2learn]

I have noticed a few more domains popping up that are being advertised on the radio. It has gotten me to thinking. Wrynt = Rent . . .

Think names like this that do not pass the "radio" test have upside at all?

 

[Recons.Com]

Plenti does not pass radio test, yet they do lots of radio ads ))

That said wrynt is nowhere near rent.

 

[Kuffy]

You should try to explain some of my at-tail mail addresses such as n@ughty - people have real problems getting their heads round that.

 

[Lox]

Wrynt = Rent

@ wikisource - scroll to the middle of the page.
("Macbeth")

 

[everythingmustgo]

Lord that is a bad name. I think one letter is OK. Like Lyft or Duud. But even with you telling me Wrynt is rent I still don't see it. To get around the homophone/radio test problem I like to pronounce duud as rhyming with good when talking to people IRL. Then they say what? And I say d-u-u-d dotcom Can't say "double u" though or they might go to dwd haha

 

[anantj]

I like to pronounce duud as rhyming with good when talking to people IRL

And then they're likely to also spell it as dood instead of duud
So can't get around spelling it out for them anyway

 

[Kuffy]

Sound like a duud name.

 

[everythingmustgo]

And then they're likely to also spell it as dood instead of duud
So can't get around spelling it out for them anyway

I'll see how it goes. I think duud is good

 

[anantj]

I'll see how it goes. I think duud is good

Oh yes. I did not mean to imply it is not. Not all good domains necessarily pass the radio test.

 

[Kuffy]

The Coca-Cola name in China, for example, was initially rendered as “ke-kou-ke-la” on thousands of signs before it was found that the meaning of the phrase was either “bite the wax tadpole” or “female horse stuffed with wax" .

I found this quote whilst researching something else.

 

[lambo.com]

I have noticed a few more domains popping up that are being advertised on the radio. It has gotten me to thinking. Wrynt = Rent . . .

Think names like this that do not pass the "radio" test have upside at all?

Absolutely not

 

[james haw]

"Reddit" is not similar. It's a catchy name and has relevant meaning to the site content, and is fine for the type of site/business it is.

Rental based companies should have a quality business sounding name, "Wrynt" is a terrible tacky name for a business of that nature IMO. It's not clear, and it reads as "rint" more than it does "rent". The silent "w" just makes it worse.