The folks by at Read/WriteWeb have put together a pretty compelling list of the 10 worst names for web 2.0 sites. All are real web services, and all are really poor names, for a variety of reasons.

Here’s a snippet of R/WW’s list.

• Fairtilizer is an online music community with a bafflingly unattractive name.
• Agester - how many sites must add a -ster to their name?
• Profilactic is a site that aggregates feeds, but we had to read the description a few dozen times before we could pay attention to anything but the site name
• iStalkr composes a stream of documents from your RSS feeds including
  Digg, Flickr etc that you can share with others. But it’s got a kind of frightening name, not to mention the me-too omission of the letter “e.”

certain, it’s tough to come up with a good name that hasn’t been used before. But is it really that tough? What are some of the poor excuses for a name you’ve run across in your Web 2.0 wanderings? And what new names would you give to the services above or other cool web sites with unlucky names?

Original post by Brad Linder

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