Ask HN: what do you think of the name Squiry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3350607

by Ritu • 15 years ago

4 7 15 years ago

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I have been looking for a brandanle domain to launch a service for quite sometime. I picked squiry cause it's short and brandanble, in my opinion.

Would love to hear your take. Also what are some factors you base your decision on when choosing a name?

hendrix• 15 years ago

something like "s" "query".

mjs00• 15 years ago

Often you can have name relate in some direct or indirect what to what the service does, or something unique about it.

If you are playing off '(In)quiry', FYI my first impression was pronouncing more like 'Squirrel', "SQUIR-Y" rather than "S-QUIR-Y".

leeHS• 15 years ago

I agree with this. I saw squiry, but my mind instantly converted it to squirrely. My 2 cents.

chris_dcosta• 15 years ago

Names are hard to choose, but you shouldn't spend too much time on it at the expense of developing your idea.

It's common now to try to make an english-like brand name, but there's an implicit false assumption that everyone will be able to work out a pun-like significance, but that doesn't work in countries where english is not a first language.

Of course that depends on who your target audience is going to be.

petervandijck• 15 years ago

It's fine.

rodw• 15 years ago

For what it's worth, I'm not sure how to pronounce "squiry". I would have guessed "skwer-e", but that sounds unlike most English words I know. Reading this page, maybe "squire-e"? "s-queer-e" (as in s-query)?

It's not even that I couldn't choose between two ways to read it, but that I couldn't come up with one good way to read it.

To me that seems like bad sign.

Ritu• 15 years ago

Thanks for your feedback. The idea was to go more like (In)quiry

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