You know what's funny?

[dan_Vt]

Since the really good names are taken, there are some good sites out there with some bad names. Like, for stock photography DreamsTime.com is pretty good, but what a name!

So, what are some other bad names for decent sites? (mine excluded )

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[Grrilla]

:hehe:



Do you think this will have better results than using the actual keyword domains for the sites? Or is that the experiment?

Part experiment part by design. My primary focus is on optimizing and building up a few of my "logonym" sites to help demontrate the viability of the concept. I am not turning all of my keyword domains into pointers, but I have some good ones that jibe well w/ the sites that I want to brand and feel that the domains can be put to better use by pointing traffic to a domain that I want to develop (that does not have the benefit of type-in traffic), than to develop them as stand alone sites. The keyword domains I have in mind are not premium .coms but they do receive a modest amt of traffic and when combined w/ 4-5 other domains that recieve similar traffic and that are, also, pointing to the site which is relevant to the search, the numbers start to look better. This seems like a logical approach but, time will tell.

 

[nametruck]

Funny

How about

Godaddy.com

 

[Grrilla]

PS relative to made-up/novelty/nonsense- the jury is still out as to whether the names I reference above are examples of "outside of the box", or "over the top" thinking. For what it's worth, I regged my first "logonym" a year ago and the competition for this group has risen markedly, as evidenced by a sharp increase of domain registrations over the period that I have been monitoring. "logonyms", the word I am using to define the category, have been around for several years. I looked for a definition and information about this type of name, as a unified category and after several unsucessful searches, landed on "logonyms" and "alphaglyphs" for labels and decided to categorize and codify a the names, myself. The pursuit has brought me deep into the world of linguistics and marketing psychology and I will be publishing more on the subject soon.

 

[dan_Vt]

The pursuit has brought me deep into the world of linguistics

Be careful you do not slip into a world of secret societies, dark plots and conspiracies (a la Foucault's Pendulum).

 

[DropLister]

i always thought eharmony was a crappy name, and mobizzo.com

 

[Grrilla]

The "logonym" is getting a great field lately.

I'm glad to hear that it is getiing a great something. By "getting a great field lately", do you mean that that the field or market for the "logonym" is becoming greater in size? The style is breaking through commercially? That the field is being promoted by, yours truly, in my own threads and in threads discussing the "made-up" niche? If you are referencing one or all of those 3 possibilities, I agree, wholeheartedly. :hehe:

NQQb.com page concept seems familiar

How so? Maybe, it's the eyes. I see "lQQk here", "owl" or "spy" eyes used alot as icons and I ran actoss a host or registrar the other day that was using eyes that were sort of loosely connected to the logo up in their header, but if I would have run across a set of eyes that were integrated into the name using letters, I would have remembered it. For me, the fact that you did sense something that was vaguely familiar about nQQb, is a positive sign because it exemplifies the "visual catch" attribute of these names.

Be careful you do not slip into a world of secret societies, dark plots and conspiracies (a la Foucault's Pendulum).

A world filled w/ grammatology, semantics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and morphology, not to mention mindshare and traffic metrics!
A world filled with concepts that help us better understand what it is that we are playing with- affixation, alliteration, blends, clipping, coinage, initialisms, medial capitals, reduplicatives, and much much more...!
Foucault's Pendulum? Hmm... haven't run across that one yet. Is it a made-up?

BTW, Given that self-interest plays into all of our games, I won't deny that it doesn't factor into my "logonym" posts. However, I'm genuinely interested and enthusiastic about this category- my head has been wrapped up into it for several months, now and my interest in the subject goes beyond, any income that I may or may not derive, somewhere down the line, through the promotion of the "logonym" concept, . So you'll have to excuse me if it seems like I'm trying to turn the topic and point it towards my own thing. Just trying to share my approach, my angle, w/ you. That being said, donations and contributions will, graciously, be accepted, although, you will derive no tax benefits, from doing so.

 

[harkster]

Hey Grrilla you sho be messin up the mind of this old country bumkin usin all them big wUrds(an active site). Damn, even I can visualize a cool (QuHL) logo using wUrd.

While I sort of understand what Grrilla is doing my mind balks. I am having fun playing with my beloved Q. Just found an active site (sort of) CQQL-net. KQQL is more visual.

You might be supprised how much money is spent by very large companies every day inventing names for their products. Wonder how much was spent just coming up with the name Qwest.

I think the internet and unavailability of choice .com names is feeding this movement. In todays fast paced world you need something that will 'stick'.

 

[dan_Vt]

Foucault's Pendulum? Hmm... haven't run across that one yet. Is it a made-up?

It's a book by linguist Umberto Eco...where the protagonist feeds random data into a computer...and the computer begins building connections that reveal a dark plot.