Agreed all, especially to emphasize that Hyperdata could be lost in the sea of “yet another whiz bang geeky hi-tech company selling robotic UAV drone gyroscope controllers.” And most people don’t really care to know the geeky specifics of the technological advance. They just want to know the benefit provided by the innovation. Thus a name which describes the benefit that appeals to the target demographics, is superior to a name which only describes the technological innovation which may be only grokked by a subset of the target demographics.
I am also very much liking Keeper. It’s a keeper. It captures what you were wanting to connote with the “immute” idea. And it also conveys that our activity has a caretaker which will keep it safe. So given that is implying that there can’t be deleterious raiders that impinge on the benefits of your activity, it nearly and neatly covers the concept that corporations can’t become parasites on your activity. I say nearly, because the Keeper name doesn’t convey that itself is decentralized. It doesn’t convey the technology by which it achieves its caretaker role.
I registered some of the other variant spellings just in case we’re unable to obtain the keeper.org or keeper.net domains. Also to thwart copy-cats using variants. For the Keeper variant, I was only able to register keeper.im yesterday. Waiting for more feedback before considering if I should spend $100 to register keeper.to. The .to domains are good to have because that country and registrar is committed to disobeying takedown orders from for example the West. Again keeper.org appears to be offered for sale for $5000, but we’d wait until Bitcoin’s price is higher before splurging for that purchase.
One downside is we may not be able to obtain keeper.com because it’s already in serious use. But for menstrual cups, so I doubt anyone will get confused as to whether that is the correct site if they’re seeking ours. Perhaps eventually we could convince that company to take thekeeper.com (the actual name of their product) and sell us keeper.com. Or at least buy a prominent link on their site to ours for our users that end up at the .com. One would think they wouldn’t want to be the target of DDoS attacks (that are intended against our project) and the egregious costs of defending against such because of the association. Thus I think they would quickly become aware that they need to change domains.
Note keepsafe.com is obviously in very serious use and very much doubt we could ever obtain that domain name because that is the brand name of the safety glass. I doubt they would want keepsafe.glass which is available for registration. Yet keepsafe.net and keepsafe.org appear to not be in use. So I registered keepsafe.cc, keepsafe.id and keepsafe.network for Keepsafe as an alternative two syllable name with a similar meaning.
P.S. Obviously one problem with Myriad is that many people can’t spell it. And it’s actually three syllables compared to two for Keeper.
P.S.S. I’m wondering if maybe we should have an alternative name Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह) for the site, especially for Indians. I have registered some of the domains.
I think that when/if you come across "the" name you'll know it straight off in a way you haven't with previous ones. And it will still seem good in a week or a month's time.
I was thinking of your statement (a thought I’ve also expressed before) when I happenstanced on keeper after looking up synonyms of liberator.
Of course I had looked up synonyms of liberate and libertarian before. But either I hadn’t looked up synonyms of liberator or I hadn't focused clearly (even though I had indeed articulated the concept 5 months ago) that I wanted to look for a word that expressed protecting against the Fat protocol tendency of the data to become captured by a corporation which has vested interests inimical to that of the users.
Note the Fat versus Thin protocol concept become refreshed in my mind in the past 2 weeks because of the discussions I was involved in at Jim’s blog. Thus that diversion ended up being very valuable in more ways than one.
I suspect TBL’s project could gain a head start due to the respect he’s accumulated - in spite of the flaw you pointed out. Struck me that SOLID was a decent name, but not outstanding.
Scaling requires an economic phenomenon, not just good will. The entire point (the links I provided in my prior post) is that without tokenization of the protocol, then the economic incentive for Fat protocols dominates. He may be receiving mainstream media support because it could possibly be a premeditated massive diversion to try to pull people away from what could possibly succeed. Please read about the acceleration of the left recently w.r.t. to for example Alex Jones.
I think perhaps the name idea “solid” was one of the ones I thought of in a discussion with Risto Pietilä (bitcointalk.org username @rpietila) in early 2013 just a few months after he invested ~$100,000 to buy 10,000 Bitcoins at ~$10 each. Risto had registered some of those domain name ideas.
Btw, I’m looking at TRYBE (←click that link!). That’s a reasonably good name. Try+be = tribe. Competition is heating up perhaps. Although the significant inherent problems with EOS being DPOS remain.
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Keeper is pretty good. It's sort of all encompassing and sounds trustworthy, reliable, etc.
Yeah Keeper isn't an emphatic slamdunk. “Pretty good” seems to be about the same as my assessment. But it will become a very good name as everyone’s stuff starts disappearing from the Internet.
Not sure what I think of Hyperdata. Seems a bit unrefined or something for lack of a better word.
Hyperdata lacks specificity. Vague. Vacuous for most people. It’s too abstractly connected to (thus disconnected from) a benefit most people would readily identify.
RE: Name YOUR decentralized social network?