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Name suggestions
As @PascalPrecht mentioned in #9, Mozilla already has a popular project called Brick, so I'm taking feedback on whether to rename the project.
Comment with your thoughts on the issue. I'm also taking name suggestions if you want a rename.
Here are the criteria for new names:
- Must be one word
- Must have an available and reputable TLD (no
.ioplease, they're really expensive. If you want to suggest.io, you can contribute the domain :smile:)
Thanks!
@fly I'd rather have a TLD that's at least partly recognized as a gTLD. Even better if it's on this list.
I also work on a project named Brick: http://github.com/azer/brick (dev branch will show my last commit)
What about gypsum? It's used as a building material to hide up the complex mess of wood planks and wires in a building, much like how Brick obfuscates the messy task of downloading fonts and writing the appropriate CSS for them. Here some domains that you can currently get:
- gypsum.me
- gypsum.cc
- gypsum.ws
- gypsum.im
- gypsum.so
@Codingbean I'll consider it, but I don't particularly like the sound of the word...
How about Woffer? If you're willing to go for ccTLDs, there's woff.er, ~~or even wof.fr? :P~~ (update: scratch the latter, it's parked :/)
@waldir .er won't work, since the TLD is not publicly available (or if it is, it's extremely hard to get one).
I got an .ir (for wald.ir) a while ago through an Iranian friend, otherwise it would have cost me a lot more (and in any case I think they restrict it to Iranian citizens or companies). I don't know if such a strategy could help in this case, but I thought I'd mention it. But of course that depends on whether you like the name in the first place :)
It's an okay name, though I'd like to have something a bit more original (not as obvious).
Yeah, I wasn't terribly excited about it either, but I do think it's better than brick (I mean, does that even have a meaning? Perhaps it's too non-obvious to me) and if somehow we could get hold of an .er domain, that'd be sweet :)
Just another idea: Slate. Think of a website as a blank slate that your site adds character to. There's most of the domains taken for this, but here's what's available:
- slate.ws
- slate.so
- slate.bz
- And of course: slate.sexy
Agreed. You're kind of hard pressed to find a good one-word domain without making something up, or doing something like Meeet (adding an extra letter) or Compilr (changing the spelling).
It doesn't have to be a dictionary word; most of those are already taken.
I suggest Featurizer (font.featurizer.com seems like a great url for this project) and it appears to be available on all the tlds.
I would open it to a 2 words name and include the main target "font" to the name
btw: brick was a horrible name. If you search for it you never got this repo at google: font brick
@muescha I'm mainly targeting the keyword "webfont" here. Anyway, I like doing SEO by popularity, not by injecting keywords at every possibility.
I just checked and we're on the first page of Google results for the search "webfonts", which is pretty good already. And it'll probably rise once this project ages a bit.
Ligature.co?
It’s available — and even on sale with Godaddy, if you want to go with them for some strange reason.
Ligature.co is a great idea IMO, but stay away from godaddy.
Would recommend:
- internet.bs
- gandi.net
- name.com
- namecheap.com
In no particular order
On Friday, March 21, 2014, omphalosskeptic [email protected] wrote:
Ligature.co?
It's available -- and even on sale with Godaddy, if you want to go with them for some strange reason.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/alfredxing/brick/issues/12#issuecomment-38253040 .
@fly Considering it, but it wouldn't really work SEO-wise, even with the phrase "Ligature webfonts"...
FWIW, I think brick is fine name. Perhaps not ideal but since it's not objectionable and already has a decent bit of mindshare/googleshare, I don't see any reason to change it.
@KyleAMathews Thanks! That's what's I'm thinking too, especially after this long...
Still open to suggestions though!
Silica.io is available, silica doesn't seem to be popular project name on github, and silica is what bricks are mostly made of.
I also think Brick is a fine name.
@JacobJWBurden Seems to be a bit unrelated, though, despite it being the compound that makes up bricks. "Brick" is more of a generic term, and here I intend it to mean strong, sturdy, classic, simple, and a part [of something bigger].
Any other suggestions before I close this issue? I had originally wanted to get some money to purchase brick.io, but it seems that's taken. I still want that gTLD so (non-)targeting is a bit easier.