Help me pick a name for my app

Posted by robertgaal on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:09AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm developing a simple service that converts timezones. Yes, I know this already exists, but the difference will be in the details.

I'm looking for a fun and remarkable (domain-)name for this app. Something around clocks, times, dates, timezones, different locations, etc.

I thought it would be cool to ask you guys as a kind of experiment, and hopefully something great will come along. So HN, could you help me out?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by pclark on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:42AM (#538374)

whatsthetime.in

would be quite neat to go to http://whatsthetime.in/London

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by markessien on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:59AM (#538385)

You win. Can't do better than that, I'd say.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by listic on Monday March 30, 2009 @07:39AM (#538399)

You may want to look into possibilities of securing even shorter domain name, i.e. ideally it would be http://time.in/London

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by markessien on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:13AM (#538419)

Lots of possibilities there: querytime.in, gettime.in, localtime.in, thetime.in. Godaddy actually offers .in domains. If I were OP I'd just register then all, and let the ones die that friends and family don't like.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by pclark on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:31AM (#538432)

either go super short or go memorable. I think whatsthetime.in works because its literally what you'd ask.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by kevTheDev on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:20AM (#538465)

localized versions? Are there any domains like .in which mean "in" in other languages?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by catz on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:47AM (#538493)

in is a fairly global word. If you play around in Google translate you will see that in is in in German and Dutch.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by sjs382 on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:16AM (#538335)

jacktheticker, some variation of coo coo clock (cucuclock?), stophammertime, zonedrone, ticktockclock, ticktocktime, hourhand, hourglassfast, sundial, moondial,

Chron Jeremy -- has a built in mascot. a hedgehog

Didn't check them for availability at all, but that's a quick brainstorm...

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by jparicka on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:32AM (#538341)

simpleservicethatconvertstimezoneswiththedifferenceinthedetails.com

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by andr on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:17AM (#538363)

Make sure you get the .net and .org before domain spammers steal it.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by listic on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:41AM (#538642)

You may want to see how Yandex did it: http://time.yandex.ru There are links for switching between analog and digital clock on top of the page.

I've found this service by pure accident. Once I've needed to know what time is it now in some other city and I thought "hasn't Yandex made a service for this already?" It turned out, they did!

IMO, that's the ideal version of this service. But if you invented something better (the details you mentioned) - more power to you!

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by listic on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:42AM (#538643)

One other service I discovered the similar way is http://mirror.yandex.ru - it turned out that they maintain a comprehensive mirror of open source software, might be useful if you live in Russia; I actually get downloads at higher speeds because Yandex has special agreement with my ISP (Peterstar).

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by floatingatoll on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:54AM (#538499)

timezo.ne is available.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by robertgaal on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:43AM (#538347)

All very good submissions! No real winner yet thought, and not all are available domain names.

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by hopin on Monday March 30, 2009 @01:10PM (#538762)

yourglobaltime.com

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by macco on Monday March 30, 2009 @12:40PM (#538723)

huntanelk.com

Is elk common in the us?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by bravura on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @12:06AM (#539599)

whattheclock.com

What the clock!?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by slater on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:26AM (#538369)

outtati.me

(and many other *ti.me possibilities)

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by davidbnewquist on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:38AM (#538346)

time-ster! J/k. Maybe time2time?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by sambeau on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:27AM (#538337)

tickr

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by AlexTheFounder on Monday March 30, 2009 @06:11AM (#538359)

timez, timeflip, timeside, timezoo

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by blender on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:01AM (#538582)

chronvert.com is available...

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by visitor4rmindia on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:02AM (#538408)

Tick-Tock!

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by jonsen on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:43AM (#538348)

timeonspot

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by selfish on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:31AM (#538339)

how about just "cuckoo"?

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by seren6ipity on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:50AM (#538496)

timezonal.com

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Re:Help me pick a name for my app by dw0rm on Monday March 30, 2009 @07:06AM (#538386)

timeconv.com

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