>The name stands simply for NGINX ANTI XSS & SQL INJECTION
>Some reported us that the pronounciation is complicated and can lead to a misleading sound of “Nazi”. Of course, it’s definitely not our intent.
>Our company is based in France and pronouncing “XS” is easy for us since we have some words like this. Russians as well doesn’t have any issue with this since they have complicated sounds.
>But English & American people doesn’t have any sound like this and are hesitant in the way to pronounce it. Is it a X, is it a S and if they pronounce only the S, it then sound like nasi, not good… We didn’t saw this forcoming and are a bit sorry about that. We may change the name to NAXI to make more clear, and, of course, remove the SQL injection protections. (kidding)
http://blog.memze.ro/?p=39
>Why the name “NAXSI” ?
>The name stands simply for NGINX ANTI XSS & SQL INJECTION
>Some reported us that the pronounciation is complicated and can lead to a misleading sound of “Nazi”. Of course, it’s definitely not our intent.
>Our company is based in France and pronouncing “XS” is easy for us since we have some words like this. Russians as well doesn’t have any issue with this since they have complicated sounds.
>But English & American people doesn’t have any sound like this and are hesitant in the way to pronounce it. Is it a X, is it a S and if they pronounce only the S, it then sound like nasi, not good… We didn’t saw this forcoming and are a bit sorry about that. We may change the name to NAXI to make more clear, and, of course, remove the SQL injection protections. (kidding)