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what ‘burrp’ could have been - a look back into branding history

Here is a list of names we came up with for our product before we settled on burrp! My god, 22balls.com? What the *expletive* were we thinking? Sounds like a god damn porn site. Anyways, have fun with these. Onwards and upwards…
1. 22balls.com
2. party22.com
3. party bhai.com
4. list22.com
5. eatonomy.com
6. burrp.com (the winner!)
7. joltz.com
8. khanapeena.com
9. joom.com (we were keen on this but thought it was stupid to pay the cyber-squatter)
10. eDekko.com
11. echo22.com
12. ekTaal.com
13. kaamit.com
14. jumblika.com
15. joomlo.com
16. joomila.com
17. mistikk.com
18. numonik.com

Posted by deap on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 3:10 am.

8 Responses to “what ‘burrp’ could have been - a look back into branding history”

Hey,

Whats with the addiction with the number 22 :p

Nice name BTW

Left by DJ on October 25th, 2006

22 is the STD (long distance) dialing code for Mumbai.

Left by anandj on October 25th, 2006

Ohh my !!

What thinking !

Left by DJ on October 29th, 2006

lol! and where did the balls come from? :P

Left by Amit on October 29th, 2006

The balls didn’t come from anywhere, you just got to have them to do something like this ;)

Left by anandj on October 29th, 2006

Hey Ya’ll,

Well, I don’t know if you guys know about this…

I was just playing with Alexa rankings. and guess what,

http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=burrp.com
BURRP now has an Alexa Rating of 314454.
Congrats you guys.

Oh hey, also,

BURRP has a Google pagerank of 4 !!

Kudos to you !

Congrats once again.

P.S: Make this as a new blog entry cause I didn’t have the rights to :p

Left by DJ on October 31st, 2006

Ha,

Its always like that. Same type of confusion happened when we tried to name our startup.

names we considered :)

1) tiggu.com
2) duvi.com
3) mymov.com
4) www.mymuv.com

Atlast, we went with mymuv.com and never turned back :)

Left by Arun on November 9th, 2006

Thats a really good name.

Left by anandj on November 12th, 2006