Name YOUR decentralized social network?

anonymint (65)in #cryptocurrencies • 7 years ago (edited)

We’ll award $125 – $500 in STEEM for a name idea¹ that we end up using that wasn’t already one of our ideas listed below. Feedback in the comments section please. Only suggest names for which the .com isn’t currently in (successful) use.

I’m leading a group that is developing a decentralized ledger and social network.

Please be encouraged to comment about which name ideas you strongly like and dislike. We’re throwing a lot of ideas on the community wall to see what sticks. A correctly decentralized social network should impart some sense of collective ownership and interest in choosing the name.

Please consider resteeming this so I can receive as much feedback as possible from community about the choice of names.

I thought of some name ideas:

Token	Website/App
`mosh`	MOSH
`bits` / `atoms` / `air`	Unglued / Airout / Uncaged
`dids` / `ad-libs` / `franks` / `deeds` / `truths` / `real` / `clear`⁇	Candid
`juju`	Juju
`oz`	Oz
`mojo`	Mojo
`ours` / `rep` / `tips` / `ecash`⁇	Ours
`cred`	CRED / Credom
`noos`	NOOS^_(sphere)
`links`	Links
`grok` / `knol`	Grok
`gush`	Gush
`taboo`	Taboo
`anarcash`	Anarcast / Anarchive
`ecash`⁇	Welog
`quid` / `tallies` / `sticks` / `yaketyyak` / `yak`⁇	Yard / Yak / YaketyYak
`acts`	Interact
`yon`	Yonder
`links` / `circuits` / `ecash`⁇	Junction
`crux`	Crux
`cha-ching` / `ka-ching`	Cha-Ching / Ka-Ching
`funbits`	JAMBOX
`chow` / `oats` / `viand`⁇	Oasis
—	Lucid
—	Illume
—	Gist
`knugget`	Knugget
`feed`	Feed
—	Crush

Note there’s an advantage for viral spread via word-of-mouth if the token name and the website name are the same.

Existing names for proposed or launched tokenized social networks on distributed ledgers that I’m aware of include: Steem, Minds, Kik (kin), Yours, (“gift of”) Gab, Ark, LBRY, and Synereo.

A brandable name is unique and memorable enough to standout amongst a see of copycat names.

A name should express what is unique and enticing about the product or service offered.

I want to read your comments about your preferences.

For the brandable name of a blogging system not factoring in the token name or other factors such as emphasizing decentralization and onboarding/gamification, my personal opinion in order of declining preference:

Medium
Lucid
Gist
Feed
Grok
Knugget
Blogger
Illume
Candid
Steem ←^{_{ranked lower because esteem has only an indirect correlation to blogging}}
Crux
Airout
YaketyYak or Yak
Ours
Yonder
Taboo
Mojo
Anarchive
Welog
CRED

For the brandable name of a video sharing system:

Youtube
CredTV (or Credtube)
Candid
Funtube
Unglued ^{_{(from your TV or screen)}} (or Airout)
Instagram
Pinterest
LiveLeak
Feed
MOSH
Taboo
Vimeo
Dtube ← ^{_{ranked lower because 26 copycat permutations of _tube}}
Gush
Vine
Knugget
Yard
Anarcast or Anarchive
DailyMotion
Yonder
Junction

For the brandable name of a discussion forum system:

Disqus
YaketyYak (or Yak)
Reddit
Feed
Airout
4chan
Junction
The Hub
Interact
Knugget
Slashdot
Yahoo! Groups
Candid
Ours

For the brandable name of a Q & A system:

Quora
Answers
Grok
Knugget
Crux
Askville
Illume
Gist
Feed
Candid
Junction
StackExchange

For the brandable name of a communication and chat system (c.f. also):

LINE
Skype
Kik
Telegram
Yak (or YaketyYak)
Links
Hangouts
Junction
Interact
Snapchat
WeChat
Cryptocat
Jabber
Tokbox
Airout
Feed
Scrollback
Anarcast
Welog
Candid
Gush
Viber
Yonder
Slack
Discord
Yard
Voxer
JAMBOX
Signal
WhatsApp
Yahoo! Messenger
Facebook Messenger

For the brandable name of a microblogging system:

Twitter ^{_{(is fucked)}}
Feed
Blurb / Blurt ←apropos but currently in use for non-microblogging sites
Gush
Welog
Yammer
Yak (or YaketyYak)
Knugget
Crux
Tumblr
Plurk

For the brandable name of a music sharing system:

iTunes
SoundCloud
Pandora
Tidal
MOSH
Juju
JAMBOX
Spotify
Knugget
CRED (or Credom)
Anarchive
Yard
Feed
Junction
BandCamp
Deezer

For the brandable name of a decentralized ledger flexible enough to power all of the above social media and networking systems:

EOS
Ethereum ^{_{(scaling R&D ongoing)}}
NOOS ^_(sphere)
CRED (or Credom)
NEO
Aion
Ark
Steem
Cardano

Above list ranked by brandable token name where token name is same as platform name:

cred
steem
ether
noos
eos
ark
neo
aion

Most brandable token names:

cred
knugget
mojo
steem
ether
mosh
feed
funbits
anarcash
yon
dids
yak or yaketyyak
noos
crux

My tentative conclusion

Pending feedback from the community, my current preference is to name the decentralized ledger Credom — “Kingdom of CRED”, with a token name cred.

Functionality or App	Preferred Name
blog	Lucid, Gist, Grok, Knugget, or Illume
video	Candid, Unglued, MOSH, or Airout
live broadcast	Yard or Anarcast
discussion	YaketyYak or Yak or Airout
Q & A	Knugget or Grok or Crux
comm	Links or Junction or Yak
microblog	Gush or Welog
music	MOSH or Juju or JAMBOX
storage	Anarchive
dating	Yonder or Oasis
adult	Crush
photo	Illume or Candid or Lucid
ebook	⁇
fantasy games	Oz

Not everyone will like the same names because people all over the world have different cultures, preferences, and even perhaps prejudices. So by having many types of names for different apps will provide more probability that everyone will like at least one of the chosen names or a subset of them.

MOSH

Perhaps negative to some people but actually expressing insouciant, uninhibited, candid freedom, artistic expression, and playfulness. MOSH is playing into the punk rock, anti-authority, individualistic expression meme. MOSH could be a rebellious, artistic, punk, social name for money. Eminem popularized MOSH as a rebellious and self-expression concept:

mosh
/ mäSH /
^{verb: mosh; 3rd person present: moshes; past tense: moshed; past participle: moshed; gerund or present participle: moshing}
dance to rock music in a violent manner involving jumping up and down and deliberately colliding with other dancers.

^{Origin 1980s: perhaps from mash or mush. Concise of way of saying slam dancing.}

Urban Dictionary: Mosh

^{To mosh: A way of expressing yourself at an mental rock/punk concert. Almost always done in a “pit” with extremely cool people who you don't even know but they'll look out for you! You get pushed around, shoved, you fall on your ass but it's all in the spirit and you have a f*ckin great time!!!}

To those that don’t know of the concept or video, MOSH may connote mush or mash and not it’s obscure, abstract punk meaning. I suspect that MOSH appeals more to males than females. I particularly like it, because I’m rebellious and I like punk and eclectic styles and music. And anything abstract and creative tends to stimulate my interest. Problem is that those who know what MOSH is may on first mention think our website is pertaining to music only. Branding works though if people don’t already associate a product or service to a name beforehand, e.g. I ask anyone what Uber is and they respond “taxi”.

We registered mosh.sh, mosh.one, mosh.tube, mosh.cafe, moshone.com, moshtube.com, moshcafe.com, mosh.cash, moshing.us, and mosh.fun for $111 total.

_{The domain mosh.com was offered for $1000 monthly lease in 2016.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	`$34,498`	`$107,000`
`.net`	`$16,100`	`$7500`
`.co`	`$4999`	`$320`
`.me`	`$499`	`$130`
~~`.org`~~	taken
`.us`	not in use	`$1300`
`.io`	not in use	`$990`
`moshi.ng`	`$199`
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`.buzz`	`$33`
`.ooo`	`$63`
`moshme.com`	redirects to `billabill.com`	`$50`
`getmosh.com`	`$2500`
`moshsh.com`	offline	`$0`

Unglued / Airout / Uncaged

Unleashed from the corporate controlled social networking and medium. Freed from their control over your data, the privacy of your data² (c.f. also, and the feature limitations, closed source code, controlled narratives, forced subjugation to advertising and propaganda.

As compared to ‘unleashed’ and ‘unstuck’, Unglued is semantically compatible with the token name bits because when things come unglued they’re in pieces. And it may additionally convey a dissident, nonconformist, politically incorrect, schismatic, iconoclastic, rebellious, artistic, uninhibited state-of-mind (which some may interpret negatively as psychotic). Compared to Unbound, Unglued emphasizes becoming Untied instead of also limitless frontier. Unglued doesn’t have ‘unlaced’’s off-topic association with loosened shoelaces and lack of contamination.

Unglued has another positive meaning coming unglued from traditional mainstream media such as the television. However, some may perceive it and Uncaged negatively or disassociated with the most conspicuous functions of social media and networking. Airout also conveys a dispersed system semantically compatible with the same token names. Airout can be interpreted as “open communication”, and thus a system which fosters freedom-of-speech.

We registered unglued.co, unglued.me, unglued.us, airout.co, and airout.me for $26 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.org`	not in use	`$190` for `unglued.org`
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`unglued.com`	make offer	`$3600`
`unglued.net`	`$477`	`$530`
`airout.com`	`$5864`	`$770`
`airout.net`	not in use	`$250`

Candid

Candid isn’t just about impromptu camera snapshots. The etymology derives from a Latin word meaning white and pure. It signifies genuine, uninhibited, frank, unsuppressed, and unscripted expression in any form including writing.

We registered candid.one, candid.cafe, candidlive.com, and candidcafe.com for $34 total.

_{The domain candid.com is registered to Candid Color Systems which presumably is unlikely to sell the domain at any price. However, their not so popular business isn’t any way related or relevant to social media and networking on a decentralized ledger. Thus search engines and browser address bar autocomplete would tend to send users to the more popular candid.* domain. Ditto app stores for the mobile app.}

_{The unpopular company that is using getcandid.com is also using candid.io.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
~~`.com`~~	taken	`$62,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$4100`
`.org`	make offer	`$3700`
`cand.id`	redirects to `okusi.co.id`	`$60`
`.co`	not in use	`$670`
`.me`	not in use	`$95`
`.cam`	`$1941`	—
`.us`	`$495`	`$210`
~~`.io`~~	taken
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`candid.tv`	`$15000`	`$140`
`candid.live`	`$75`
`candid.video`	`$3125`	`$660`
`candidone.com`	`$488`	`$230`

Juju

If Uber can be branded to associate with taxi service, then Juju can be branded to associate with “charm and magic attributed to” social media and networking and the “amulets” that represent the tokens.

ju·ju
/ ˈjo͞ojo͞o /
noun
    1. a style of music popular among the Yoruba in Nigeria and characterized by the use of guitars and variable-pitch drums.
    2. a fetish, charm, or amulet of West African peoples.
    3. the magic attributed to or associated with jujus.

So many people all over the world will identify with this name because of the popularity of recent Hiphop/Rap song Juju On That Beat:

We registered juju.cafe and juju.cash for $11 total.

_{Although the domain juju.com is in use for a jobs website (and they control juju.net also), that website has no new press releases since 2013 and within the past year its Alexa ranking has dropped in global ranking from Top 50,000 to 80,000 websites. Thus presumably the business is withering and can be bought out if the price offered is high enough.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	withering use	`$282,000`
`.net`	redirects to `.com`
`.org`	redirects to a Twitter account	`$5500`
`.co`	`$10,000`	`$460`
`.do`	`$75`
`.lu`	`$39`

Oz

If Uber can be branded to associate with taxi service, then Oz can be branded to associate with “an ideal or fantastical place” for social media and networking.

Oz
/ ˈäz /
noun
an ideal or fantastical place or mythical land

Westerners will identify with this name because of the popularity of the Wizard of Oz movie and the numerous adaptations before and hence such as the Disney’s 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful.

The The Wonder Wizard of Oz was book written by L. Frank Baum who participated in the 1983 Coxley’s March on Washington, D.C. to protest against austerity and the gold standard which was imposing massive deflation. The Yellow Brick Road represented the march against the gold standard and the Wizard was Congress or federal government. The Tinman (c.f. also) was Industry, the Scarecrow Agriculture, and the Cowardly Lion was William Jennings Brian and his fiery speech “Thou Shalt Not Crucify Mankind Upon a Cross of Gold.” Coxley was arrested for walking on the grass to break up that March. The book and the board game Monopoly were a product of a rising passion for social and economic justice which for the fore-bearer of FDR’s New Deal in the 1930s which launched the U.S.A. into the socialism which destroyed the West. By the 1930s, the book lost its political meaning and became a children’s movie in 1939. There’s hidden symbolism in the movie such as the Wizard ends up being only one man controlling the fiery Wizard from behind the curtain, which some of equated to the powers-that-be that control the government (and Federal Reserve central bank) from behind the curtain. Sadly, there were also horrors in the production of the movie.

Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C. in 1932

We didn’t register any domain for this idea yet.

_{Although the domain oz.com is in use for a sports telecast website, that has a very low traffic Alexa ranking at less than Top 50,000 to 80,000 of all global websites. Presumably this website can be bought out if the price offered is high enough. Estibot (valuate) estimated the price of $3,200,000 but that seems high given the actual use of domain currently although two letter domains justify a premium.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	withering use	`$3,200,000`
`.net`	redirects to `sitestar.net`
`.org`	not in use	`$20,000`
`.co`	make offer	`$6100`
`.us`	not in use	`$8100`
`.me`	make offer
`.uk`	make offer
`.xyz`	`$3250`
`.im`	`$863`
`.buzz`	`$520`
`.pub`	`$500`
`.cafe`	`$250`
`.land`	`$124`
`.life`	`$124`
`.cool`	`$84`
`.gy`	`$48`

Mojo

mo·jo
/ ˈmōjō /
noun
a magic charm, talisman, or spell.

We registered mojojo.co and mojojo.us for $10 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	redirects to `elevate.com`	`$107,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$33,000`
`.org`	`$1999`	`$21,000`
`.co`	not in use	`$490`
`.me`	not in use	`$560`
`.io`	not in use	`$710`
`.to`	not in use
`.bo`	`$199`

Ours

I think Ours is a better name than Yours and it definitely implies that the ledger and social network is owned by the community, yet it’s a weird name for a token.

We registered ours.network, ourz.org, and ourz.us for $13 total.

Note we also registered eca.sh as a potential token name.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	make offer	`$33,000`
`.org`	`$18,488`	`$2600`

CRED / Credom

We purchased the domain name cred.me before Verify publicly announced their project would use CRED as their token name. I put that project on notice that we might proceed with the use of the name. We haven’t decided whether to proceed with that name. We haven’t yet purchased the CRED.net domain name is for sale with a minimum bid offer starting at $10,000. It looks unlikely that we could obtain CRED.com. I like the concept of credibility and artistic Street Cred. I like that the domain, project name, and token name would all be the same so that word-of-mouth adoption would be facilitated. The one syllable name which is easily to pronounce and spell is also very favorable. And it’s one letter shorter than STEEM. Disadvantages are it connotates credit and debt to some people. And emphasis is on remuneration and/or accrediting as opposed to generalized social networking benefits. There’s also an extant BitBounce project with a CREDO token name.

click for some other logo ideas

We also registered credtv.com, cred.cash, cred.tube, cred.cloud, and creds.network for $40 total. We also purchased cred.me.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
~~`.com`~~	taken	`$45,000` ^{_{vlog.com sold for $50,000 and trap.com for $52000}}
`.net`	`$10,000`	`$17,000`
`creds.net`	`$1495`	`$630`
~~`.org`~~	taken
`.co`	`€10,000`	`$1200`
`.to`	make offer	`$300`
`.us`	make offer	`$840`
`crednet.com`	not in use	`$560`
`credme.com`	not in use	`$60`
`getcred.com`	not in use
`credtube.com`	not in use

An alternative variant idea is Credom — “Kingdom of CRED”.

We also registered credom.comand credom.net for $24 total.

NOOS^_(sphere)

We have registered no-os.net, no-osphere.com, noos.network, no-os.us, and noosphere.network for $30 total.

_{We haven’t yet decided whether to purchase noosphere.net for $649 because we’re undecided whether it would be better to focus on the shortened name NOOS which would also be the token name. Also noosphere.com might already be in use. My guess is that NOOS.com is available for sale at some price although I haven’t inquired. Estibot (valuate) estimated the price of noos.com to be greater than $0.5 million. An alternative variant idea which we haven’t registered is noos.is (yet that sounds very similar to extant project Gnosis).}

i think cred is better but as you mentioned it may not translate in to all the use cases this project may encompass. seems to me cred is mainly a unit of trustworthyness. noos can take that meaning on also as it gets popular. sorta like google (not the other [googol] spelling anyway) means search now instead of a mathamatical term. noos also has the advantage of being more or less unique as far as the general population is concerned. we can make it mean anything. cred already as a more or less set in stone definition. not sure if that is an advantage or not.

Also CRED (as in CREDO and Credom) is cartoonish. NOOS is more intellectual, abstract, and nebulous ethereal (isn’t that what we really want?). And I agree it is plausible to be used as a verb, as in “noos it” but kinda weak as a verb compared to “google it”.

OTOH, noos is not as easily spoken. CRED crisply comes off the tongue.

However, if you asked me which site I could remember as a place to go spread and attain knowledge (blogging, wikis, discussion) I would remember NOOS more than CRED. It stands out more as unique and associates more with knowledge. Yet I hate the way it sounds as one syllable. I prefer to say no-os. Noose (nous) sounds like something I will use to hang a person by their neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

^{The noosphere is the sphere of human thought. The word derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous "mind") and σφαῖρα (sphaira "sphere"), in lexical analogy to "atmosphere" and "biosphere". It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922[4] in his Cosmogenesis.}

^{In the theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. […] The noosphere is therefore as much part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. As a result, Teilhard sees the "social phenomenon [as] the culmination of and not the attenuation of the biological phenomenon." These social phenomena are part of the noosphere and include, for example, legal, educational, religious, research, industrial and technological systems. In this sense, the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere thus grows in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the earth. Teilhard argued the noosphere evolves towards ever greater personalisation, individuation and unification of its elements.}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noos

^{In the Aristotelian scheme, nous is the basic understanding or awareness which allows human beings to think rationally.}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noogenesis#To_the_parameters_of_the_phenomenon_.22noo.22.2C_.22intellectus.22

^{The emergence of the human mind is considered to be one of the five fundamental phenomenons of emergent evolution. […] Development of an individual mind (ontogenesis ) […] Appearance of the Global Intelligence concept}

Links

We registered links.cafe for $7 total.

_{The domain links.comhas never been seriously used throughout its 18 year history. The domain was offered for sale at an original asking price of $500,000 with a minimum offer of $200,00 as of February 2001 by Richard Finkelstein. The asking price was increased to $1.2 million as of February 2011, then increased again to €1.3 million as of July 2017. In [October 2017)(https://web.archive.org/web/20171004134059/http://www.links.com:80/) the asking price and offer to sell was removed from the website. I believe (the Jewish I presume) Mr. Finkelstein is a bit unrealistic because the domain while being premium, isn’t the most ideal fit to the type of social media and networking sites which could pay a $million for a domain. He should sell at a more reasonable price before decentralized ledgers and/or the Chinese disrupt the .com monopoly. He probably doesn’t realize that the value is peaking or has peaked already because of disruption on several fronts including the devolution of Western civilization and the rise of China which may prefer a non-English spelling of .com.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$327,000`
`.net`	not in serious use	`$20,000`
`.org`	not in serious use	`$17,000`
`.co`	`€10,000`	`$19,000`
`.to`	make offer	`$920`
`.us`	make offer	`$4100`
`.me`	make offer	`$1400`
`.center`	`$26`
`.one`	`$650`
`linksone.com`	`$877`
`linkscafe.com`	`$7475`

Grok

“grok it” to know more about it.

We registered grok.fyi, grokfyi.com, grok.one, and grok.network for $28.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$24,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$2700`
`.org`	not in use	`$2600`
`.it`	not in use	`$45`
`.us`	not in use	`$110`
`.me`	make offer	`$45`
~~`.co`~~	taken
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`groknetwork.com`	`$499`

Gush

Overflowing with uncensorable social media/networking activity and information.

gush
/ ɡəSH /
verb
    1‍. flow out in a rapid and plentiful stream, often suddenly.
    2‍. speak or write with effusiveness or exaggerated enthusiasm.

noun
    1‍. a rapid and plentiful stream or burst.
    2‍. exaggerated effusiveness or enthusiasm.

We registered gush.sh, gushsh.com, gush.one and gush.network for $57.

_{The gush.com domain served a shopping website until August 2016, then it remained blank until January 2017. The .SH registrar may offer gu.sh for auction eventually.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$24,000`
`.org`	not in use	`$3000`
`.me`	`$2500`	`$40`
`.to`	`$100` biannually

Taboo

An example of a negative name with a potentially positive Streisand effect of intrigue.

We registered tabooo.net and tabooo.org for $24 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$137,000`
`tab.ooo`	asking `$45,000`⁇	`$1500`
`.me`	`$5175`	`$1400`
`tabooo.com`	`$2499`	`$4400`
`.to`	`$100` biannually

Anarcast / Anarchive

Negative meaning for many people analogous to Taboo, yet emphasizing decentralization as the positive interpretation of anarchy for those who grok this meaning. We registered anarcast.net, anarcast.org, anarcast.me, anarcast.co, anarcast.us, anarcast.cloud, and anarcast.network for $45 total.

The token name could be anarcash and we registered anar.cash and anarcash.com.

Anything related to anarchy will not be good for mass adoption. The idea of anarchy frightens the average user.

What do we mean by mass adoption? Do we mean an initial critical mass of 1 million daily users of the site, which would less than 0.25% of Facebook’s usership.

We’re not initially targeting the average user. We’re targeting the indie publisher (blogger, video, games dev, etc) who wants to eliminate the middleman. And the users who consume their content.

However Jeff Berwick of anarchast.com might not be too thrilled with someone using a name that differs by only one letter, unless perhaps he was bought out and/or felt he could earn much more by publishing on the new social network. My opinion is anarcast is a better name than anarchast for a content media site (i.e. the ‘cast’). Jeff is emphasizing the ‘anarchy’.

An alternative variant idea is Anarchive for which we registered anarchive.io, anarchive.co, anarchive.us, and anarchive.cloud for $50 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`anarcast.com`	`$2000`	`$320`
`anarchive.com`	`$28,750`	`$1900`

Welog

We registered welog.org and welog.co for $20 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	`$20,000`	`$1200`
`welo.gg`	`$69` annually
`.to`	`$100` biannually

Yard / Yak / YaketyYak

Homey, neighborly, yakety-yaking (c.f. defined) in the backyard. Southern comfort gossip on the porch ambiance.

We registered yard.cafe, yak.cool, yak.fyi, yakfyi.com yaketyyak.co, yaketyyak.us, yakety-yak.us, yaketyyak.in, and yaketyyak.cash for $47 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`yard.com`	not in use	`$91,000`
`yard.net`	`$9995`	`$6500`
`yard.org`	make offer	`$4800`
`yak.com`	not in use	`$156,000`
`yak.net`	not in serious use	`$17,000`
`yak.org`	not in use	`$14000`
`yak.co`	`$6899`	`$1400`
`yak.us`	not in use or expired `$9999`	`$3900`
`yak.to`	not in serious use	`$1500`
`yak.live`	`$250`
`yak.network`	`$26`
`yaketyyak.com`	make offer	`$9300`
`yaketyyak.to`	`$100` biannually

Interact

~~Inter~~act on the ~~Inter~~net.

We registered interact.zone and acts.cash for $9 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	redirects to `act.com`	`$35,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$9200`
`.org`	make offer	`$1900`

Yonder

We registered yonder.one, yonder.zone, yonderone.com, yonderus.com, yonder.us.com, and yonder.chat for $60.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$30,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$3800`
`.org`	not in use	`$1800`
`.co`	not in use
`.us`	not in use	`$95`
~~`.io`~~	taken
`.id`	`$25` annually
`.chat`	`$25` annually
`.sh`	`$33` annually
`.gg`	`$70` annually
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`theyonder.com`	`$1595`	`$0`

Junction

An electric junction for the hive of decentralized ledger activity flowing through ecash.

The hackjunction.com website exemplifies the concept.

junc·tion
/ ˈjəNG(k)SH(ə)n /
noun
a point where two or more things are joined.

We registered junction.chat and junction.zone for $29 total.

^{The junction.com domain served a barely functional website until September 2015, then it remained inoperative hence. The domain was offered for sale at an asking price of $750,000 as of September 11, 2013, then reduced the asking price to $100,000 as of May 2014.}

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use, formerly asking `$100,000`	`$208,000`
`.net`	redirects to `uniserve.com`	`$13,000`
`.org`	redirects to `walkertek.com`	`$12,000`
`.to`	`$7,338`	`$80`
`.co`	make offer	`$1200`
`.us`	make offer	`$810`
`.io`	make offer	`$160`
`.me`	`$4599`	`$710`
`junctionto.com`	`$4369`	`$120`

Crux

crux
/ krəks,kro͝oks /
noun
the decisive or most important point at issue.

We registered crux.fyi, cruxfyi.com, and crux.cash for $17.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	make offer	`$56,000`
`.net`	make offer	`$6100`
`.org`	not in serious use	`$2800`
`.co`	make offer	`$280`
~~`.me`~~	taken
`.to`	`$100` biannually

Cha-Ching / Ka-Ching

This name emphasizes the money making aspect of the social networking rewards. It’s readily understood in many nations due the cash register jingle and Mr. Krab in Sponge Bob cartoons.

We registered cha-ching.cloud, cha-ching.co, cha-ching.network, and cha-ching.us for $20 total.

_{The domains cha-chi.ng and ka-chi.ng are available for registration for $199 annually, but chachi.ng and kachi.ng are already registered. However, cha-ching.com is registered by the Cartoon Network:}

JAMBOX

This was the idea I had in 2015 before Steem was created. All these hand-drawn sketches on this page are mine. This idea is probably most applicable to music and games.

We registered jambox.org, jambox.us, funbits.org, and funbits.us for $28 total.

The domain jambox.com redirects to soundforce.com so either it can be purchased if the price offered is high enough, otherwise the .org TLD is sufficient for a Google ranking given the .com isn’t relevant to the search term “jambox”.

Oasis

Our fertile enclave, sanctuary, or haven from the desert of the powers-that-be.

We didn’t register any domain for this idea yet. The domain oasis.com is in use by some marginal dating site, but oas.is appears to not be in use and thus presumable for sale at a high enough price. Also oasis.net is offered for sale for the price of $10,000.

Lucid

We registered lucid.pics and lucid.ws for $33 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	offline	`$131,000`
`.net`	offline	`$2900`
`.org`	make offer	`$2600`
`.co`	offline	`$370`
`.us`	make offer	`$300`
~~`luc.id`~~	taken
`.blog`	`$250`
`.to`	`$100` biannually

Illume

Means to enlighten or illuminate.

We registered illumeme.com and illumeme.me for $13 total.

Unfortunately it could be easily confused with Illumina and typoed.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	redirects to `myrepi.com/tag/illume` ^{illume beauty creme}	`$13,000`
`.net`	not in use	`$1600`
`.org`	`$699`	`$1400`
~~`.co`~~	taken
`.us`	not in use	`$70`
~~`.me`~~	taken
`illu.me`	redirects to `givepad.com`	`$110`
`.to`	`$100` biannually
~~`illumina.com`~~	taken

Gist

We registered gist.fyi, gistfyi.com, gist.zone, and gist.today for $21 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	offline	`$141,000`
`.net`	make offer	`$15,000`
~~`.org`~~	taken
~~`.us`~~	taken
`.me`	redirects to Linkedin account	`$700`
`.io`	not in serious use	`$510`
`.info`	make offer
`.ee`	`$50` annually
`.gg`	`$70` annually
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`.ly`	`$100` annually
`.bo`	`$200` annually
`gistly.com`	offline	`$40`
`gisttoday.com`	`$577`
`gistzone.com`	`$1595`

Knugget

Means a valuable idea or fact: “nuggets of information”.

We registered knugget.co, knuggets.co, knuggetz.co, knugget.net, knuggets.net, knuggetz.net, knugget.org, knuggetz.org, knugget.us, knuggets.us, knuggetz.us, knugget.cc, knuggets.cc, knuggetz.cc, knugget.me, knuggets.me, knuggetz.me, and knugget.in for $141 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	not in use	`$50`
`.tv`	`$32` annually
`.gg`	`$70` annually
`.to`	`$100` biannually
`knuggets.com`	`$3500`	`$2600`
`knuggetz.com`	`$2795`	`$690`
`knuggetz.io`	`$34` annually
`nugget.com`	redirects to `uniprofoodservice.com`	`$57,000`
`nuggets.com`	redirects to `nba.com/nuggets`	`$71,000`
`nuggetz.com`	offline	`$1100`
`nugget.net`	make offer	`$4400`
`nuggets.net`	not in use	`$4600`
`nuggetz.net`	offline	`$15`
`nugget.org`	make offer
`nuggets.org`	not in use
`nuggetz.org`	offline
`nugget.co`	make offer
`nuggets.co`	make offer
~~`nuggetz.co`~~	taken

Feed

Web feed.

We registered feedooo.com and feed.foundation for $16 total.

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	make offer	`$121,000`
`.net`	make offer ^{minimum offer $9999}	`$14,000`
`.org`	`$20,700`	`$15,000`
`.us`	not in serious use	`$4000`
`.me`	offline	`$3200`
`.io`	not in use	`$4000`
`.fun`	`$325`
`.buzz`	`$2858`
`.info`	`$10,418`
`.ac`	`$33` annually
`.my`	`$75` annually
`.ooo`	`$88` annually
`.bo`	`$200` annually
`feedus.com`	make offer
`feedus.org`	`$950`
`feed.us.com`	make offer
`feed.us.org`	`$20` annually
`feedfun.com`	`$1995` ^{12 monthly payments of $167}

Crush

TLD	Status	Estibot (valuate) value
`.com`	offline	`$616,000`
`.net`	minimum offer `£4900`	`$17,000`
`.org`	`$23,000`	`$29,000`
`.me`	offline	`$1400`
`.cam`	`$1890`	—
`.love`	`$650`
`cru.sh`	auction	`$640`

¹ _{The higher amount will be awarded if we think the idea is exceptional.}

² _{We can do Cluster’s circles of private sharing on decentralized, public ledger by employing encryption.}

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pele23 (73) 7 years ago (edited)

Too bad you do not really get any feedback, for such an elaborated study.

I am going to be honest. The only 2 names that I think can work are Yak and Mosh. They are short and have a distinguished sound to them.

Apart from the conotation of Mosh with hard rock and punk rock, I would go for that one. Because you know how to relate Mosh with social and you clearly know how to brand something. And Mosh could be used as a slang for Money, and that can also be used in the branding. Mo-neyzzzz to Mo-sh. Just an idea...

Yak is also a possibility but could be close to Yuk... So my choice goes to Mosh. And from what I am reading, I think you are leaning towards that one too.

Sincerely,

Pele23

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anonymint (65) 7 years ago (edited)

So I presume you prefer mosh as the monetary token instead of my proposal for cred?

But have you contemplated the purpose and use of this proposed token? Users will be onboarding onto various applications built on the decentralized ledger such as blogging, video sharing, Q & A site, etc.. They will accumulate more of these tokens for their activity on the apps. My thought is the tokens would represent credibility and credit (not debt but merit) on the site. Do you prefer mosh because it shares the first two letters ‘mo’ with ‘money’? But we’re not primarily creating an electronic money for general use, as the first priority focus. Scaling a currency to general use requires years or decades. The near-term use of the token is within the apps (and presumably for speculation).

Another issue is do we want to use the same name (e.g. Mosh) for all the possible applications that can leverage the decentralized ledger? I think probably not. My thought is we want names best fit for each application, e.g. the Steem blockchain has Steemit and Busy for blogging, Dtube and Dlive for video sharing, etc..

So my thought is Mosh would be a good name for music sharing but it wouldn’t be a good name for a blogging site. Do you disagree?

For the token names I considered, I ranked yak as #10. So I also don’t like it as name for money. It is sort of catchy, but has bad connotations as you noted and there are better choices. Why do you not like cred or mojo? It seems to me that both of those have meanings which associate with merit or power. Whereas, mosh doesn’t have any establish meaning which associates with anything related to money. Do you like mosh because it is abstract, different, disruptive, and rebellious? I do too. That is why I like the name Unglued for a video sharing site (“unglued from mainstream TV”), but I want to read what others think about that? And because it has no established meaning such as the magical power of Mojo?

Note rebellious concepts may turn off some females and some in the mainstream of society. I suspect females like Steem because of the positive notion of esteem. Steem was the first crypto project with significant female adoption. The name Mosh may be very masculinity targeted. I hope can get some feedback from the ladies on Steem.

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pele23 (73) 7 years ago

You have a point in all what you say. But are you sure Cred hasn't been used for a concept like this before?

Different names for different features is not bad, but I wouldn't use too many, it could become quite confusing. When I first came here, it was like a maze, and it took me months to get everything figured out, with Steem, Steemit, Dlive, Dtube, Dmania, Busy, Esteem,... I know for a fact that this puts lots of people off, for joining Steem(it)...

I know it is hard, but you should be able to get a link (namewise) in between the different platforms and features of your network, to get user friendliness at a high.

But you are correct that Cred sounds better than Mosh. But with good marketing a name can be associated with anything. I really liked the sound of Mosh, but I get your reasoning.

Greetings, Pele23

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anonymint (65) 7 years ago (edited)

You have a point in all what you say. But are you sure Cred hasn't been used for a concept like this before?

Akaik, nothing in a big way that would compete with us rolling out with it to hopefully a larger-scale adoption. If anyone knows of any such conflict, I would appreciate if they would post here.

_{As I wrote in my blog, I’m aware that Verify and Credo named their token CRED but I expect that project to fade away and it’s already one of the 100s of ostensibly illegal ICOs.}

Different names for different features is not bad, but I wouldn't use too many, it could become quite confusing. When I first came here, it was like a maze, and it took me months to get everything figured out, with Steem, Steemit, Dlive, Dtube, Dmania, Busy, Esteem,... I know for a fact that this puts lots of people off, for joining Steem(it)...

I agree that is confusing. One potential improvement to perhaps make it easier is if the main portal website (e.g. credom.com or cred.net) keeps a wiki list of the apps and descriptions of what they do. So the users can then go to the portal to familiarize themselves. If the portal is also decentralized, i.e. anyone can contribute to the wiki, then there it can’t be alleged that there is centralized control. As for preventing vandalism or discord at the wiki, that is where my design for decentralized rankings comes in (I will not describe that in detail now). Or an elected foundation could maintain the portal, but democracy is always centralized.

Typically users will be arriving at an app because they like the content or concept and want to join, e.g. arriving at Steemit for blogging and Dtube for video sharing. And for our project that might be Candid for the blogging, Unglued for the video sharing, YaketyYak for a discussion site, Grok for a Q&A site, and Mosh for music sharing. If they want to signup, they’re be directed to the decentralized ledger portal, e.g. credom.com or cred.net if they want free tokens from the faucet signup process.

Some of the confusion you mention is being caused by the competing names, e.g. Busy is a clone of Steemit and Dlive is a clone of Dtube apparently without the 25% fee. As I said I have a design for curation which will squelch the discord and confusion by algorithmically (automatically with an option for individual manual override) detecting like-mindedness amongst curators.

I don’t think it works to have a music app and a blogging app in the same UI and thus using the same site name. A music app will have a much different format. You could put all the apps under the same site name, but then you have centralization, which is one of the bad things we’re trying to disintermediate. Decentralized competition will advance the state-of-the-art faster.

But you are correct that Cred sounds better than Mosh. But with good marketing a name can be associated with anything. I really liked the sound of Mosh, but I get your reasoning.

I think Mosh would be great for the music site on the Credom or Cred decentralized ledger. Hopefully Mosh would become very popular and cause much adoption of the Credom (aka CRED) system.

OTOH, I do get your point about unifying around one name. And Mosh is appealing to males, but that reinforces the point that one-size-fits-all causes discord. I think I get your implied point which is CRED sounds vanilla and rehashed. Mosh seems avant-garde.

Mosh could be confused with ‘mash’ and ‘mush’, yet Cred could be confused with ‘crud’.

P.S. You have reminded me (of an issue I had noted before) why it’s probably deleterious to introduce yet another name Credom (in addition to the token name cred) and instead better to use Cred for the portal site name. We already purchased cred.me.

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imjustsaying (50) 7 years ago

I really like your ideas, I'm just not in the proper head space to be able to think of good names.

I like Cred. As far as Credom, at first I was thinking it's a play on Freedom not Kingdom. It's hard the more I look at it I'm not really sure if Credom will work. But I do like the idea of Cred(ability), as a token. I think I'm just to tired to be of much help right now.

As far as the e-book one, is it going to be a place to sell e-books, or more like a place to publish and get rewarded? I've been thinking of names but, but it's hard to think of somthing with such a limited idea of how the reward system will work(on a basic level at least.) Maybe you address this in prior posts, I have such a limited time to spend on steemit, and this last couple weeks I've been dead tired and a bit under the weather, so it's been hard to really put much mental focus on anything. Babies sure know how to take it out of you.

I don't really have many followers, but I'll go ahead ans resteem this, who knows maybe one of them may have some great ideas.

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anonymint (65) 6 years ago

Hype about Telegram and mobile payments creating mass adoption.

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phelim (25) 6 years ago

By the way, have you settled on Cred/ cred.me?

I was thinking how Latin words always have a bit of inherent gravitas, and the words are almost always recognizable at some level as roots in most Western languages.

What's more, many of the .com websites for many relevant Latin words are barely/ rarely used. Registered, but not used.

I went through a bunch of Latin words and found a handful of relevant options that are registered but not in use. I can PM the list to you if you'd like.

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anonymint (65) 6 years ago (edited)

The token name CRED still appeals to me, but I’m still willing to switch if we think of a better name. A more serious (less cartoonist) name might appeal to me. I’m seriously considering using knol as the token name. As for the app names, I still very much like Stor (or Trove), Knol (or Grok), and Jot. My change in strategy is I prefer to combine the games into the storage and music name: Stor or Trove. And combine decentralized Q&A and Wikipedia clone into one app name: Knol or Grok. For messaging, short-form blogging (e.g. Twitter), and chat discussion, the name Jot is okay but doesn’t emphasize the debate and knowledge orientation of Reddit. We could combine the debate and knowledge oriented discussion and long-form blogging into Knol. Other ideas welcome. Go ahead and share the list of ideas here or via PM ([email protected], LinkedIn, or username ECASH on Crypto.cat).

Our project is focused on actual mainstream adoption.

Vitalik is probably correct, the pure speculative hype phase of onboarding greater fools for useless, utility ERC-20 altcoins probably peaked and now we need to see some actual adoption to drive more mainstream investment and interest:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-08/ethereum-plummets-after-co-founder-buterin-says-days-explosive-growth-are-over

Instead, the co-founder of the second most valuable cryptocurrency said that the next growth phase will be getting people who are already interested in cryptocurrencies to be involved in a more in-depth way: "Go from just people being interested to real applications of real economic activity", a point he has made regularly in the past even as he frequently slammed the stratospheric growth observed in cryptocurrencies in 2017, if not so much 2018.

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quillfiller (33) 6 years ago (edited)

I wasn't aware of Google's KNOL (they seem to have shot themselves in the foot with that one), so imagine that is the case with most other people too, so unlikely to come with negative baggage if used. Yeah I quite like it. Though perhaps the "KN" for N-sound might confuse non-English speakers? However, I like the "look" of the word KNOL though.

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anonymint (65) 6 years ago (edited)

All the prior reasons I provided on this blog and in the comments for preferring cred are still valid, except my thoughts about women not preferring the rebellious name mosh. Women like rebellion (drama and disruption) because they want to be invaded, so they have the widest availability of genetic input for their limited offspring (sperm is not dear, men can impregnate an unlimited number of women). Women also like cute, lovable things that associate with babies.

Also I’m thinking our name needs to embody the paradigmatic shift rather than just speak to some mundane logic (e.g. credit) of what money was in the agricultural and industrial eras which humanity is necessarily now departing.

What is more expressive of the paradigmatic shift we contemplating: credibility or knowledge?

Thus, my current preference for the token name in order of declining preference are:

knol
mosh
cred

The name mosh (as abstractly branded so it becomes recognizable) probably appeals more to females than knol.

I asked my gf if she was going to choose between a party that had mosh or knol, which would she choose? She said mosh and started wiggling her body and smiling.

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Name YOUR decentralized social network?

My tentative conclusion

MOSH

Unglued / Airout / Uncaged

Candid

Juju

Oz

Mojo

Ours

CRED / Credom

NOOS(sphere)

Links

Grok

Gush

Taboo

Anarcast / Anarchive

Welog

Yard / Yak / YaketyYak

Interact

Yonder

Junction

Crux

Cha-Ching / Ka-Ching

JAMBOX

Oasis

Lucid

Illume

Gist

Knugget

Feed

Crush

NOOS^_(sphere)