The Stories Behind The Names of 15 Gaming Brands You Know

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I’m an avid gamer, and I’ve devoted a bulk of my time in my bedroom playing games without giving a single thought to what goes behind the doors of the many players in the gaming industry, apart from what games they are releasing next. Inspired by earlier behind-the-name stories here on the site, this time we are going to look into the stories behind big names in the gaming industry.

Some of these names might not be familiar to you but their games were probably part of your childhood. Read on to find out how these brands in the gaming industry got their names.

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22 Techniques to Help You Find The Perfect Domain Name

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Either if you like to admit it or not, domain names are the soul of every online business. You may have good content and everything else, but without a good brand behind it, you will struggle way more than you should have.

With that being said, it would be great if before starting a new project, you will focus on finding a good, easy to remember, easy to brand domain name for your online business.

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These startups are set to become household names in 2013

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What technology will shape consumer electronics and digital products in 2013? We've got a few ideas - including everything from personal social networks to car-sharing to energy consumption. Here are the tech startups you'll want to keep an eye on in the coming year.

With CES just days away, the tech world is about to be introduced to a bevy of new concepts and products that will define 2013 (at least, here’s hoping, right?). That said, there are plenty of startups already on the market (or nearing it) that have been building momentum over the past year, poised for success in 2013. Here are our picks for tech and digital startups that will be innovating and inspiring over the near year. If you don’t know these names now, we think you will come this time next year.

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The 25 Most Expensive Domain Names Of All Time

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A few weeks ago, Investing.com was sold for a whopping $2.45 million.
But that's not even close to the highest price someone's paid for a domain name.

We collaborated with DN Journal and put together a list of the 25 most expensive domains in the world.

Not surprisingly, sex and gambling-related domains were the biggest money makers.

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22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know

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You know the characters, but you might not know their full names. Store these away for future trivia nights.

1. Did you know the Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons has a name? It’s Jeff Albertson. But that wasn’t the decision of creator Matt Groening. “I was out of the room when [the writers] named him,” he told MTV in 2007. “In my mind, ‘Louis Lane’ was his name, and he was obsessed and tormented by Lois Lane.”

2. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. (Ken’s last name is Carson.)

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YouTube users can finally change their account names

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Many of us have experienced the following scenario: You signed up for a service and created a username that seemed like a good idea at the time. However, you didn’t know that you’d be using that service for years. In the end you’ve found yourself stuck with a username like “supersmoothboy” even though you had become far more mature and professional. If this is how you feel about your YouTube account, now is your chance to change your username for the better.

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Should Google and Amazon be allowed to control domains?

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There’s been a lot written about the domain-name “land grab” that ICANN — the agency in charge of the internet’s central address system — unleashed recently, by offering companies the chance to register thousands of new top-level domains that could be used alongside the usual selection like .com and .org. While some of the suggestions are amusing, others are more troubling: Google, for example, wants the exclusive right to reserve domains such as .search and .blog for its own use, and Amazon wants to do the same with .music and .cloud. Some critics, including open-web advocate and blogging pioneer Dave Winer, think this is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed. Are they right?

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Domain Names 101: Your business's most important marketing tool explained

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If you own a business, have a website, or want either one in the future, this is information you need to know. WWW. Insert your name here, domain names are an essential part of your web identity and can make or break your internet success.

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How names influence our destinies

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To a remarkable degree, they do. Though we don't choose them, our names are badges bearing information about our class, education level, and ethnic origin — or at least those of our parents. Scientific studies have shown that the world makes different assumptions about a boy named Tyrone than it does about one named Philip, and while those assumptions are often wrong, they can have a considerable influence on the course of a life. A name can even exert unconscious influence over a person's own choices. Some scientific researchers contend that there are disproportionately large numbers of dentists named Dennis and lawyers named Lauren, and that it's not purely an accident that Dr. Douglas Hart of Scarsdale, N.Y., chose cardiology or that the Greathouse family of West Virginia runs a real-estate firm. To some degree, this has always been true: The Romans had the expression nomen est omen, or "name is destiny."

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How To Make Money From Your Domain Names

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According to several records, there are almost 100 million .com domain names registered. However, given the around 60,000 of these expire every day, it’s obvious that most of them are worthless. While the chances of you finding a domain name that is going to make you rich overnight are pretty slim, you can still make a fair amount of money from domain names in various different ways.

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Federal judge orders Google, Facebook to “de-index” 700 domain names

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In a move likely to send counterfeit product sites scrambling for new homes on the Internet, a federal judge has ordered in favor of a fashion company seeking to protect the brand.

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