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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by equidistant on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:03PM (#22676993)
That's an unfortunate business name
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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by BenjaminN on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:06PM (#22677040)
Definitely bad timing. My experience with names: they are never good enough.

What I look for in a name:

1. If I say it out loud, you know how to write it.

2. If I say it out loud today, you remember it tomorrow.

On that 2 criteria, Riot works quite well I think.

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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by equidistant on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:07PM (#22677044)
It's bad in that there's already a very popular game company named Riot (Games) which everyone refers to as 'Riot'.
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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by thenewnewguy on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:27PM (#22677338)
Disagree, I have serious doubts you could confuse the two. I can see almost no context where 'Riot (Games)' and 'Riot (Anti-Phish Company)' could be meaningfully confused.
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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by BenjaminN on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#22677146)
Some people know League of Legends, most don't know Riot Games. And I double checked: Riot Games don't own a trademark for anything related to cybersecurity.
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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by Arathorn on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:48PM (#22679414)
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to stop them going after companies with Riot in their name (even though Riot is also a dictionary word) :(
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Re:Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team by pipework on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:16AM (#22682601)
Way more people already know riot games and league of legends than will ever know about your security startup, so I don't see what they're upset about for you. Hand-wringing, perhaps?
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