October 15, 2004

The ultimate dotcom

Posted by John Quiggin

I’m five years too late, and McNeil PPC has beaten me to the name, but it struck me the other night1 that iModium.com would have been the ideal name for an Internet/telecom/dotcom IPO in the late 1990s.

1 There was no medical reason for this thought, just a random neural connection

Posted on October 15, 2004 03:17 AM UTC
Comments

I know a lot of people who work at a company called Incipient, which is a fine word but I have yet to hear anyone who doesn’t immediately make an association with “insipid” instead. Despite having the “in” at the beginning to suggest something internet-related (which it’s not) and the “ent” at the end because all the cool kids do that, it came in at #36 on a list of worst company names.

My own favorite idea for a company name is “intransigent” - besides having the “in” and the “ent” it has “trans” in the middle to suggest motion. It’s even a real word, and it’s real meaning isn’t so bad, but those literate enough to know it will recognize some seriously negative connotations.

Posted by Jeff Darcy · October 15, 2004 12:57 PM

A reference to M. Mahathir as an “intransigent” was the cause of a minor political crisis between Australia and Malaysia a while back. But that shouldn’t be a problem in the US market.

Posted by John Quiggin · October 15, 2004 01:07 PM
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