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What makes it a good name? Personally I think its pretty terrible. Does not mean much of anything, makes me think of a celebrity blog or something. The domain is hard to pronounce. If you don't use the OMG acronym its completely meaningless. Always amazes me when companies with millions in funding put their sites on such crap domains.

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Some people on here are just outright ridiculous.

It's a website of poppy glossy Flash games for teenyboppers. How is this not a perfect name for the site and its demo?

Remind me how "ombop" appeals to teenyboppers... they don't meditate, and Hanson went out of style years ago.

I went to the local junior high around here and asked the girls hanging around to come over and I told them whether or not omgpop.com sounds awesome. They said yes. Then some school admin guy came over and told me to go away.

Did you ask about ombop.com, the name that this thread about?

Oh hey, I'm a tard with the grayed out texts.

I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about "ombop.com" and not "omgpop.com." If you read only the first four words of my post, before accosting junior high girls, this would have been obvious.

Have you talked with any, or are you just guessing? For all you know they ran a targeted ad campaign and picked the highest converting product name for their target demographic.

That's what I'd do, at least as an input into the decision-making process.

That aside, having built products for teenagers, I think this name is totally fine. They all use txtspk and omgpop makes perfect sense in that vernacular.

I think omgpop.com is an awesome name, and I think that they're going to do very well.

I don't think that "ombop.com," what I assumed this sub-conversation was about (by virtue of replying to the post about it), is a good name.

Ah, ok! It's unclear what "it" refers to in the original response. In the OP "it" refers to omgpop, while in the first response it could refer to "ombop."

Anyhow, I agree with you.

> If you don't use the OMG acronym its completely meaningless.

I don't use that acronym and I knew what it meant.

How do you know it's crap? I think it works well if you're targeting teenagers. Maybe that's exactly what they're doing.

I think that's what the 30 something business guys who decided on the name would say.

google did pretty well out of a weird name

Google is easy to pronounce and does not have any slang acronyms. I wonder if they chose omgpop because lolgamez was already taken.

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