Comments on: How not to name your company

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos riffs on one craze that the Internet bubble unfortunately could not kill.

[maiyali]

you mean Pendejo?

but yes, Panteho does sound remarkably like the spanish word for
- well you know!

[talus7]

funny stuff

I am from El Salvador and fell off my chair when I read his comment. LOL! Good stuff!

[marycnet5]

ha ha this tickled me pink

ha hah...

I write for "That Damn PC" at
http://thatdamnpc.com

and I didn't choose the name, but I like it.
That said, I also use it in my sig line
(as requested by my company, b5media)
and ummm.... gosh, some people are so offended, well, I'm sorry.
b5media wants me to use it in my sig ... so what can I do? except laugh.

and I hope google or some other site doesn't

and my other sig? it's got three words in it
http://ChowRescueDogs.org

I'm clippin' this article
A friend of mine is trying to choose the perfect
name for her company. Wouldn't you know it: her current company name (withheld) has three words in it too, for both domain and letterhead...

Thanks for the great insight!

Mary

[knowledgeSeeker]

Load of crap!!

This article makes no real sense. Choose whatever name you like. Just make sure that you deliver what you say and your company will profit and who knows, even become famous.
Check these silly names:
Google, IBM (International Business Machines), Apple, Dell. They all have terrible names but we love them.

[Roseythepug]

Actually, I think Apple is good name.

[Gomphos]

More questionable names...

Yes, all real. List gathered while I was in college (pre-internet).

- Dress Barn
- Chandelier Shack
- Nail Cove
- Envelope Mart
- Security Hut

[alteal]

Not dot com

OhNoNot.com

[dmm]

How about?

Ineed$BIGTIMEorITSbellyup4me.com

[zarph2]

you mean like news.com.com ?

hmmm.

[katamari]

Exactly :D

Had me laughing. I still want CNet to fire whoever came up with that.

[thedreaming]

actual domain names

like-duhh.net
idiot.com
hell.com
heaven.com
presidentmoron.com (believe it or not)
googleityoumoron.com (yes, it's real)
redneckworld.com

Scary!

[crutchfieldtravel]

How about this?

howifiredmyboss.com

[michael kanellos]

Dress Barn!

I love that one. There's no way it can sound upscale.

PS, I found a new one today:

Wretch.

It's a taiwanese online gaming site.

[crutchfieldtravel]

What do you recommend?

How about www.howifiredmyboss.com?

[shawnlin]

Wretch

Actually, Wretch (http://www.wretch.cc/) is a Taiwanese online social site. Featuring services such as Photo Albums, Blogs, Message Boards, ... etc, with 5GB of storage for each user that sign up.

There is actually an English interface for this website if you select "English" on the "Select Language" pulldown menu bar.

[Sirspa]

Its tough.

It seems like all the good names are taken, for someone starting out a new business, its difficult to find a domain that relates something to the business and means something to your customers. Hopefully I chose the right name for mine, but I am sure you guys would let me know if I didnt.
Sirspa,
http://www.free4youhosting.com

[wiley14]

The Best: WackenHut

At work, the security is outsourced to WackenHut Security. 'Nuff said!

[lonny paul]

Have you lost it?

First of all, "Central European Media Enterprises" sounds like a group of either ad networks or television stations - and import / export company?

Also, your racial references regarding spanish restaurants and what the El Salvadorians called your during highschool, was probably short of appropriate.

CNET is well known as a respected journal with reliable, fair and non-racial profiling journalists.

At large?

Hope you still got a gig.

Lonny Paul
http://www.oy9.net

[Hulser]

Giving political correctness a bad name

First off, "El Salvadorian" is not a race. So I'm not really sure what you think are "racial references". Secondly, I find it quite disturbing that anyone would consider simple reference to race (your "racial references") inappropriate. Would you have us expunge all references to race from all news publications?
And even if you did mean "racist" when you wrote "racial", the author didn't make a racist comment. He didn't state or even imply that his co-workers were inferior because of their race. He simply made a joke based on similarity of a (made up) word in one language to a word in another language.

[shawnlin]

Central European Media Enterprises

"Central European Media Enterprises" sounds ok to me. The only reason that some people may think it that sounds like an import/export company is becuase of the word "Enterprise".

But the word "Enterprise" just be corresponding to a word used in a non-English language to indicate the "type" of incorporation.

Since most names of non-US or Western European companies that Americans see or hear of are mainly import/export companies, thus the association I suppose.

THIS is the best URL EVER

I laughed my ass off when I read it. It's
"PENISland.net."












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[Roseythepug]

This article is very opiniated.

[jojopwnsu]

It's actually pendejo....