Let's Name This Place Updated: Round 2!

[Archon]

I assume that go.fish is loooong gone.

[waetherman]

As is solongandthanksforallthe.fish

[Archon]

sel.fish?

[waetherman]

Taken, tho besel.fish isn’t.

I wasn’t aware fish was a tld. I’m not even sure why it is. But coincidentally I’ve been thinking about an aquatic related business and [redacted].fish might just be the perfect name…

[ChickieD]

You mean babel.fish? because I am so game on for babel.fish

[ChickieD]

Sad trombone

[waetherman]

No, babel,fish is taken though I think you can buy it for $3k. I meant besel.fish, y’know, like be selfish? Too clever by half, maybe.

aperfectdayforbanana.fish is available. Not sure if that’s exactly happy news, though.

[gyrofrog]

NeonMeateDreamOfAOcta.fish?

The .fish TLD also suggests a particular Blind Boy Fuller song, but I’ll just leave it at that.

[waetherman]

Back on topic; I’m a little disappointed that we have just 23 voters in this survey, when we had about double that in the last survey. Don’t know if people are just missing it because it’s a long thread and the survey is in the middle, or what. It makes me uncomfortable to make such a big decision with so few people voting…

Anyone have any ideas how to drive voter turnout for this?

[ChickieD]

how about solongnthx4allthe.fish ?

[CleverEmi]

I suggest changing the topic title with a call to action, like this:

Please VOTE: Let’s Name This Place Updated: Round 2!

And, maybe emoji, for a colorful non-sequitur:

[mindysan33]

[Archon]

I think @CleverEmi’s along the right lines, but I think you should go even further - possibly like my subtle little proposal elsewhere, I suspect it’s is getting lost in the noise of off-topic sidetrackingraw enthusiasm.
Branch the poll off into a new topic, big and loud, poll as first post therein.

_{(Or ask one of the admin of you don’t have the TL yet. )}

(But yes, definitely absolutely positively don’t skimp on the emoji )

[crenquis]

Anyone have any ideas how to drive voter turnout for this?

Perhaps a new topic that points to this thread – folks might not be looking at the “unread” list.

[RatMan]

Personally, I haven’t voted because it doesn’t matter. It has a name already. You want to rename it, and I understand why. But whatever the name, it’s just going to be a bookmark in a long list of other bookmarks.

None of the choices seem particularly compelling to me. Some of the names are a bit whimsical. I haven’t worked much with any of the newer TLDs, but I can tell you that a lot of corporate firewalls (including mine) block them en masse, if that matters to you.

Personally, if it were my decision to make, I’d lean away from anything that looks back towards where we came from. Most everyone we want from there has already come here. Our challenge now is going to be to attract new people-- our kind of people-- who may not understand the inside jokes and references.

Something plain, short, very vanilla, and a .com, .org, or .net TLD is the way to go, in my opinion.

[LockeCJ]

@waetherman
You can click the wrench in the upper right, click Select Posts…, select that post, and then click move to new topic.

[crenquis]

our kind of people

freakflag.org is taken

[RatMan]

mutantflag.com isn’t

Not sure why that came up as an alternative to “freakflag” but whatever.

[Archon]

I think I’m probably just tired, but doesn’t that look back towards where we came from? (“Happy Mutants LLC” and all that)

[RatMan]

Indeed, but that’s one of the reasons they want to change it-- the potential for legal action from the Orange Owl.