Help name a Fiber ISP

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by pmccarren • 10 years ago

4 23 10 years ago

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I'm looking for help to name a new Fiber ISP based in Michigan. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated!

ubertaco• 10 years ago

Pure Fiber? (playing off of the Pure Michigan tourism slogan)

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

Ah that's a very interesting concept. I appreciate your time! Thank you!

neoncontrails• 10 years ago

When I think 'fiber,' I think of a fast, tensile, vaguely biological apparatus whose overarching job is to shunt. For an edgy, thundrous, monosyllabic word, 'Shunt' works quite nicely for an ISP I think. It's fun to say, too: 'Shunt.'

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

Thinking about it from a biological perspective is quite intriguing. I agree, 'Shunt' is indeed fun to say and the monosyllabic nature is a sure plus.

I wonder if it has too much of a negative tone as it is very similar to 'shun'. Thoughts?

breakingcups• 10 years ago

Well the negative review write themselves

keane• 10 years ago

Streamleap / CloudStream / Flyhop / SkipEcho / Fibereal / Fiberate / Fiberising / Fiberide / Surefire Fiber / SureFiber / Foolproof / Strongfiber / Woven / Verifiber / built / Amplitude

adamretter2• 10 years ago

Loom or Weave?

adamretter2• 10 years ago

Or perhaps just Fabric

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

Love the simplicity of it. Could definitely build a strong analogous marketing campaign around laying fiber is to stitching the service together.

Also could go the route of a strand of glass is the thread in which we sew you into the fabric of the Internet but I suspect this would be lost by the average consumer.

freestockoption• 10 years ago

Michigan Fiber

FiberOne

FiberHand (playing off Michigan looks like a hand)

How important is it to have fiber or relations to fiber in the name?

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

I believe FiberOne is already taken by a different type of fiber ;)

It is not important nor a requirement to have the word 'Fiber' in the name. A possibility is to have <epic name> and then attach 'fiber' secondarily (e.g. "Google Fiber").

AdmiralAsshat• 10 years ago

Braid.

gesman• 10 years ago

FiberLight

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

I've been playing with 'light', 'lumens', 'illuminate' and 'photon' as base words but haven't yet come across something that seems to fit. However I'm always open to any and all suggestions :)

chris_va• 10 years ago

iRefract (just kidding)

Do you want "Fiber" in the name? "Web"? "Internet"? "Michigan"?

(riffing off keane) - FiberStream - EchoLine - CloudLine

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

Hah might as well just go iFiber ;)

There are no inclusion requirements for the name.

pasbesoin• 10 years ago

Well, FiberUP -- but I doubt that's your geographic center. ;-)

FiberUS -- potential for use beyond Michigan.

FiberMi or FiberMI -- could pronounce "me", though might be confusing.

I like ubertaco's "Pure Fiber". I trust you are to the premises? ;-)

pmccarren7• 10 years ago

Hah I was thinking along very similar lines! One name that has occurred to me is MiFiber (pronounced My Fiber") to play off the Michigan concept.

I do think that Pure Fiber is a pretty smooth name.

tucaz• 10 years ago

MyFiber

tomkap• 10 years ago

Fibernet

type0• 10 years ago

Opticon or FastNet

Mz• 10 years ago

I am less tech savvy than a lot of people here on HN. I had to look up fiber and the first hits were for dietary fiber. But it looks like you mean high speed internet.

If so, I will suggest you go with something that a generic internet user doesn't need to Google to comprehend. I assume you want to sell to everyone, not just tech insiders, since everyone needs internet these days. Plus "Sell to the masses, live with the classes. Sell to the classes, live with the masses."

So:

Data Demon

Mi Data Demon

Mi Broadband

Mi Internet

Mi-Fi

tylercubell• 10 years ago

Quickhatch.

One of Michigan's state nicknames is "The Wolverine State" and quickhatch is another term for a wolverine. It has the word "quick" in it which gets across the message that fiber = fast. Additionally it's low competition in Google as the only results that come up are a knife company and a few dictionary listings.

Boom. Check please. :)

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