Somebody emailed me recently saying that I should change the name
of MyBestFive to something else. He thought it was stupid as it does not tell
you anything about what the site does.
Names are very difficult due to
limitations: not too long that you cannot remember it; all the obvious ones are
already taken and have been for years; trying to encapsulate what you are doing
in less than a dozen characters.
We own the site positivehealth.com and
when I registered it in 1994 I also tried to get PH but was turned down because
at the time they would not accept 2 letter names. I tried PHOnline but this and
combinations of it were already taken by phone companies. I tried other
combinations without success, so in the end settled for positivehealth and
after almost 20 years it seems about right, for me at least.
When I got the email I looked at some
other famous names and wondered what the writer might have thought of them.
tumblr – probably would have thought this
was for acrobats
Digg - for labourers
delicious - food tasting
Google - good for babies
Windows - window cleaners
facebook - a book about faces
MySpace - for troubled teenagers
We also have: Bebo; 43 things; WAYN and a
host of others.
Getting the right name is tough,
particularly now as so many billions have been taken already.
Come to think about it, MyBestFive ‘aint
that bad!
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