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My quick guide on naming apps: I'm seeing a trend of using an actual word for a brand because it's available on an obscure TLD. Unless you have a $10 MM+ to spend on marketing efforts, and that word is seldom used (especially in your industry), I think it's a mistake to use a single actual word for a brand. Some factors to consider for naming. Suggestive meaning: Your name suggests a meaning, but doesn't box your app into a narrow featureset, e.g. Amazon. It's a judgment call as to where to draw the boundary. Google SEO dynamics: If your name is two distinct words, it will take time, effort, and money to make Google search recognize that two-word name as a distinct entity. Does your brand, or a distinct component of your brand, have a word with a high cost per click? That may be okay as long as you don't see yourself paying for ads for that word alone. Shorter names are better. But SurveyMonkey was still successful. Google explicitly says the TLD doesn't matter, but is that really so? Even if the TLD choice is not explicitly weighted, there may be other aspects of SEO boosting .com. Formality: In general, a name for selling to businesses should be more formal than a name for selling to consumers. If your business is based on credibility, like providing real estate data, have a more credible sounding name. Fun fact, CB Insights had to change their name from Chubby Brain because Goldman Sachs wouldn't list a business named Chubby Brain as a data source. The sound: If you need an international presence, you want a name that people around the world can say, hear, and type into Google Search. This is harder than it seems. My first employer, Appian, has a name that is not universally said and heard the same way. You want your name to be recognizable or at least inferrable by voice-to-text algorithms. This goes for TLDs as well. For example, .co sounds a lot like .com. The .world domain kind of sounds like "the world". Branding uniqueness: For example, one strategy, especially if you're selling to businesses, is to concatenate two words, like Datadog. Completely made up words need lots of marketing spend, e.g. Zillow. Actual words make it hard to find your community's content. For example, Neon dot tech has a great product, but it is very difficult to find sites talking about Neon the serverless Postgres service because you get flooded with results about the color neon. Legal stuff: No trademark collisions, especially in the US. The USPTO provides a free search experience, and it had a big update recently. Regarding worldwide trademarks, I haven't heavily researched it, but Madrid Protocol is for international multi-country trademark registration. Useful resources for naming: instantdomainsearch dot com for domain searching with refreshed results upon each keystroke The book: Hello, My Name is Awesome. Its main point is to prioritize memorability over shortness.

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