Catchy co name - creative block!

[DS23]

smart and efficient ltd

and

high iq ltd

are still going begging...

[wendigo100]

Aaagh... getting another company sorted at the mo and trying to decide on a name that's smart, professional and not already registered. How did you decide your co names? Any ideas for inspiration?

Do you want it to reflect:

* Your name?
* The type of business?
* The key theme of the business?
* The location of the business?
* Your favourite food/footy team/band/animal/person/sexual position/ etc?
* Something else?
* Nothing at all - a random but pronounceable sequence of one or more characters?

Then get to work with a thesaurus (use MS Word's if you want)

I think you should call it "Eight" and be done with it.

[DS23]

[QUOTE=wendigo100]Do you want it to reflect:
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* Nothing at all - a random but pronounceable sequence of one or more characters?
[snip]
QUOTE]

or even better random that actually isn't. unfortunately wysiwyg ltd and qwerty ltd have gone.

dang it.

gut feeling ltd is available but then so is ooh my guts ltd. decisions, decisions...

[realityhack]

Some great suggestions but I'll probably end up taking wendigo's suggestion and sit down with a thesaurus and a coffee tonight.

Needs to be unambiguous, short, memorable, reflecting the key theme/type of business, and versatile. (I work as an IT contractor but also take commissions for design work, illustration, and hopefully artwork) I was thinking of looking at other languages for words around 'media', 'creative', 'monkey' etc and possibly cannibalising the words to form a name.

How very branded! If i chose my own name I'd probably be sued to little bits by a large company offering similar services. The domain name's gone anyways.

[DS23]

>Needs to be unambiguous, short, memorable, reflecting the key theme/type >of business, and versatile. (I work as an IT contractor but also take >commissions for design work, illustration, and hopefully artwork)

ok what about

visualise it ltd
see it ltd
represent it ltd
portray it ltd

they are all available.

squirrel it is better though. might use that myself when wind up and take the cash comes round.

[darmstadt]

Bodgit and Leggit Ltd. seems more right for here...

[Lucy]

I R Looking Busy Ltd

(probably only funny if you watch Cow and Chicken...)

[Cliphead]

I managed to get a company name almost exactly like a very well known supercomputer manufacturer and the .com domain too. Seemed like a good idea at the time but really serves absolutely no purpose.

[Sockpuppet]

The first umbrella I approached said the coy name would be "Frigg Educational Services Limited"

I told them to stuff themselves and became a proper business.

[DimPrawn]

These are all real UK companies:

http://www.thecareerbreaksite.com/fu...pany-names.php

Might give you an idea.