Fleck: what’s in a name…

A good start for this blog would be to explain something about the name and how we chose it. We spent a lot of time looking for a good name. We incorporated our company a few months ago and chose a technical name for that. But the name of our product, website and technology would be decided later. And we didn’t just come up with it, we actually had a long list of alternatives which I’ll post here in no particular order:

PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, Flink.org, TagaLink.com, Flink.org, Flinck.com, Linkes.com, PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, OURL.com, Wordinc.com, WordLink.com, WebWords.com, WordInfo.com, Lincs.com, LWeb.com, URABLE.com, Jizzle.com, Prlink.com, MyLink.org, Unlink.net, Allink.net, YLink.com, ZapLink.com, Linka.net, NowLink.com, LinkLab.com, Linkers.net, Interink.com, RefLink.com, GodLink.org, Linkse.com, OnLinks.com, LinkOff.com, Linkate.com, Blinki.com, GeeLink.com, HotLink.org, Outlink.org, InWords.com, Pulser.com, clicator.com, hypertie.com, youzing.com, inteliyou.com, linksnap.com, tiesnap.com, flealink.com, linktonic.com, democratiq.com, interwhip.com, interutopia.com, blinkburner.com, linkstie.com, linkwired.com, flungle.com, clicksy.com, klinka.com, reciproque.com, elinkt.com, metatie.com, flexmeta.com, spirimeta.com, elatos.org, elastical.org, modifier.org, flexile.org, suppletob.com, ulinq.com, linquer.com, quirley.com, ilastik.com

As you can see we did have a few alternatives to chose from! Fleck was a name that came up somewhere in the middle of our search and kept returning in our conversations. One reason we didn’t chose it right away was the pricetag. These days, finding a domainname like this means paying for it. We ended up buying Fleck.com from BuyDomains. It wasn’t that expensive, but more expensive than lunch.

If you want to know more about the word you can check the dictionary: http://www.answers.com/fleck

I’ll write a bit about our feeling and ideas about the name in a later post.