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What’s in a name?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

[actual contents of super-secret, internal fanpop email]

To: Papa
From ~~Dave Lu~~ <--- censored to protect the innocent
Subject: fanhound!
it's available!
FanhOUND and a dog as our mascot!
doooood

Coming up with a name for a business is a pain. And coming up with a business name AND an available domain name? Doubly so. Early on we considered going the Web 2.0 route. Had we done that you might be surfing on a site called “Oogloo”, “Mondoblotto” or some such nonsense.

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