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Agreed.

I think the moment you have "not to be confused with" listed anywhere on your homepage, it's probably time to change the name, no matter what you're building.

I'm hoping it is intentional, just to mess with people confused with nodejs.

How about "knodes"?

That sounds like a mix between nodes and the german Knoten. I like it, it's just a small change but would definitely reduce problems.

Go Greek I say: κόμβους

kómvous

or k5s!

This almost begs for some solution where you could buy names previously checked by the system to be appropriately uncommon.

Node.js isn't some niche project in the Javascript space that they accidentally collided with.

Just search Github for existing projects. Easy.

Doing this will likely exclude a lot of perfectly suitable names: a name needn't be a uuid, just distinct enough from well-known names.

That's hard to tell in GH search; stars only give a good indication for very popular projects.