Geeky Names

Now a days it's complicated to register a domain name. Most cool domain names are either already taken by some company or blog, or when you access them you get a big or in this case a very small) "buy me" sign. 

Geek Spot took almost half a month to get up and runing. The good news is that it's now ON.

Wich made me wonder about how big companies got their names. So after a few google hits I eventual found something.
And what company was better to start than "Google" itself, right?Funny story. Actually it started of as joke originally called "googol" wich stands for the cardinal ten to the power of a hundred (10^100) due to the engines immense amount of data indexing.

Microsoft, coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originaly caled Micro-Soft but later the '-' was droped.

CISCO, unlike popular belief is no acronym, it's short for San Francisco.

INTEL's founders Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to call it 'Moor Noyce', but the name was already trademarked so they settled for and acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book "Gouliver's Travels". It stands for a repulsive person in both appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo chose this name because they considered themselfs yahoos. 

As of Apple, Jobs and Wozniak were 3 months behind to register the name and at the time Jobs threatened naming the company after his favorite fruit (apple) if no one had a better name. Apparently no one had. 

True story.

So, what would you call your companny site?