Did you really want to know? … the techy in me wants to brain dump, anyway maybe this will be some restitution for not correctly knowing my 2’s complement.
The first part of the url is always the host - from that point on its domains or subdomains down to the root domain (the .com .gov etc) You register the domain and put it in some Domain Name Server.
If you are asking what does yucky mean, then BOA has it. It is a child’s word. Think how you feel if your dog is sick in your bed.
You may be asking why I think it is yucky. I don’t think that the brain bubblebot embodies the core values of LMR that I find appealing. Everyone is different, but I see these as:
Community
Scientific/engineering endeavour
Pleasure
Celebrating success
The brain bubble speaks to me of cheap cartoons where the mouths and eyes don’t move (think Pokemon). They are there to pull in stupid kids and sell tie-in merchandise.
However, the name & the logo are always the hard part. Think of a band, say The Doors, The Beatles, The Roling Stones. Now, in fact The Doors could be The Beatles, The Beatles could be The Rolling Stones, and The Rolling Stones could be The Doors.
I am pretty sure that they would have gotten the same fame & made the same good music.
Then think of these names: The Windows, The Sneakers and The Rough Rocks.
Now, I’m pretty sure that you find my names lame. However, I am just as sure that BEFORE you had the music of each band associated with the name, you would both find it just as lame, and you would think that The Doors just as well could be called The Rolling Stones.
So the point is; it is what you get to associate with the name… and in this case with the logo… that gives it the feeling. Not the first look.
As long as you where not trying to name a 60’ties rock-band something like “Cheesy Soap” or whatever that would completely send out strange signals - or as long as your LMR-logo somehow resembles “robot”… well then it will be OK, once you get to associate it with what it represents.
In fact, “The Doors” did start to sound like something music-related, and not something related to a carpenters work.
Hi Frits, I think you are mixing name and bot image here. The name - LetsMakeRobots.com is ace. It embodies and clearly states those values that I was talking about - the making of robots in the last two words, and the community (“lets” is plural). The bot image just doesn’t do justice to the strength and power of the brand that you are/have created.
Your point about names is partially valid - in that some names have no associated brand values until the brand is created. Doors and windows were both household items until Jim Morrison and Bill Gates came along. Now they are indelibly linked with music and PCs. Who remembers the Doors software that was supposed to enhance MS Windows in the 1980s or 90s?
However, other names come with pre-associated with brand values. The Rolling Stones is an example. There’s a UK, and possibly international English speaking aphorism - “a rolling stone gathers no moss”. So the Stones immediately tapped into the zeigeist of itinerancy and potential for change that is a cornerstone of their style, appeal and place in rock history.
Which brings me to another point, I am am sure that you are aware that different cultures/nationalities/languages have different values. When I travelled regularly to Stockholm I always brought back bars of choclate called “Plop”. This is a very funny name for chocolate in the English language - in a childish way - as “plop” is both an onomatopoeic word and a child’s name for sh1t. Obviously plop chocolate wouldn’t sell too well in an English speaking country (except perhaps to people with firends like me).
PS. the Nickleodeon cartoon Rugrats has a constant running gag about Chocolate-Cheese .
Simple I like simple logos, like the above. Actually they arent really logos at all, but rather just text treatments. I say stay simple. People connect with simple better.
Indeed. Pretty much all domains are registered at the second level (xxx.com), and then the owner of the domain can add third-level domains like www.xxx.com, forums.xxx.com, etc. But the bare second-level domain is also a valid domain with its own IP address mapping. In our case, both letsmakerobots.com and www.letsmakerobots.com map to my server’s IP address, but if a user arrives at my server by typing the URL www.letsmakerobots.com, the web server software is configured to redirect them to the bare letsmakerobots.com. It’s like having a front door and a side door, but if someone knocks on the side door, you open the door and tell them, “Hey, go knock on the front door and I’ll let you in that way.”
I had a college professor I had a college professor teaching a masters level class tell me that webmail.XXX.edu wasn’t on the world wide web because it didn’t start with WWW. Good thing he was old and I had corrected him on several other points or I would have told him how stupid that was to say. It is all on the web its just WWW is a subdomain (much like webmail.XXX.edu).
