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What about the name is so negative for you? Do you feel the same about other companies like MailChimp?

In Australia the name is synonymous with online surveys - it wasn't until I moved to the US that I realized that some people think it's such a strange name.

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A key difference is that MailChimp is invisible to the end recipient, while surveymonkey.com links are not.

They support a whitelisted research.net domain, but genuinely curious why the name has negative connotations.

A monkey is someone dumb. Isn't a survey monkey someone dumb who takes a survey?

Spank the monkey...

Depending on where you live, calling someone a monkey can range from mild to terrible insult implying stupidity through to full on racial epithet.

Where I come from the word "monkey" is used to describe an incompetent or fool. I doubt anyone would see a racist connotation here, but it has been used in that context too.

I don't know what MailChimp is but I'm already not taking a company with that name seriously! And definitely not having that name visible to my own clients or customers.

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