The 15 dumbest names for Web 2.0 startups

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12 points·jasonlbaptiste··10 comments

Some of those were only moderately bad, some were awful. Without a doubt the worst was ooooooooc (and I'm not going back to the page to figure out exactly how many "o"s there were supposed to be in there).

I agree. I don't think he knows how hard it is to obtain a non ridiculous domain name these days.

You're not going to be able to get the one you want for $7.95, but you'd be surprised what you can get for under 1k.

You could also take the 37signals route and slap an hq at the end of your domain and call it day.

I do know that. You should read the beginning of my post too.

1. Google - They didn't even spell it right!

2. Yahoo! - Named for "a boorish, crass, or stupid person" OK, given the Microsoft episode, maybe.

3. Amazon - A river? Are you freaking kidding me?

Weebly is pretty good as you can at least assume someone will know how to spell it when they go home and Google the term.

I vote for Doostang and whatever Ebay's craigslist competitor is.

You don't think Kijiji is a reasonable name? Reddit and Digg are hard to spell right at first, too.

From their list I don't think Thoof or SocialThing are bad names at all. SocialThing in particular is easy to remember and describes what it does.

Kijiji is a name you can stare straight at, and still not be sure how to spell it.

Who cares about names? As long as you can copy/paste them they work, right?

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