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Why not just start a naming-contest?

It should be pretty simple to make a webapp for this kind of thing.



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You probably could use a distributed group of brainstormers/researchers. But having a process that's too public has other risks: desirable names falling to trademark/domain-squatters; valuable also-ran names being reused by others; marketing/product themes leaking to competitors.




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