Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Path 101 posted this image on his blog. I laughed, a little… Just days before I had had lunch with the founder of one of the first – if not the first – naming firms During our conversation, he mentioned he had met with Bimbo maybe 20 years ago and the [...]

The folks over at Strategic Name Development explore the naming of premium and “whole” foods in response to two other blog posts. Two trends of note:

1) Foods that are named the same as the company that manufactures and markets them.

2) Popular snack foods are investing heavily in the concept of the personalized brand experience.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Delay for .xxx ‘net sex’ domain
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ICANN approves .tel domain | CNET News.com
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Lawyer buys hundreds of ‘Aussie’ domain names : – Flash Player Installation
One domain squatter’s tale

Domain name system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
domain names
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Howstuffworks
basics of domain names and dns

Zillow.com – Real Estate Search Results
gives you prices of recent sales with satellite or hybrid views
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Agenda Inc. Live Feed
(tags: branding, trends, coolhunting)

theproguy: Most expensive adwords – ‘Loan consolidation’ clear winner
(tags: google, adwords, adsense)

Richard Dudley : Dotster Worries Domain Names Are Running Out
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Domain Hijacking: A Dirty Business
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Domain suffixes not an [...]

Of the many, many medical dotcom businesses, WebMD (technically, a health information portal) survived. And thrived. And because they’ve existed for several years, they built some brand equity.

Now, the folks at WebMD have decided to throw all that intangible brand equity and start all over again with a new name: Emdeon.

Their reasoning? Economics. Parent WebMD [...]