They've finally secured enough capital to buy a vowel and call it http://flicker.com -- but just to be backwards compatible they also got http://smugmg.com .

I agree. I had never heard of Smugmug until just now. I want to call it "Smug hug" or "Smug hub" .. no one is going to remember that name correctly. It's awful.

> I had never heard of Smugmug until just now.

Smugmug's ubiquity is up there with B&H, KEH, FredMiranda and KenRockwell.

I can't help but remember it as "SmutMut".

Smugmug's been around since 2002 so it can't be too much of a problem

Reminds me of the fictional company Chumhum from The Good Wife.

Has 4 of the same letters, the same pattern X123123 and the different letters are C->S and G->H

I take it you did not see yesterday's thread concerning the new open source social network: 'scuttlebutt' ?

Scuttlebutt is an actual English word, while SmugMug is not.

But Smug and Mug (Face) are.

But not the conjunction thereof.