I have been looking for a brandanle domain to launch a service for quite sometime. I picked squiry cause it's short and brandanble, in my opinion.<p>Would love to hear your take. Also what are some factors you base your decision on when choosing a name?
Names are hard to choose, but you shouldn't spend too much time on it at the expense of developing your idea.<p>It's common now to try to make an english-like brand name, but there's an implicit false assumption that everyone will be able to work out a pun-like significance, but that doesn't work in countries where english is not a first language.<p>Of course that depends on who your target audience is going to be.
For what it's worth, I'm not sure how to pronounce "squiry". I would have guessed "skwer-e", but that sounds unlike most English words I know. Reading this page, maybe "squire-e"? "s-queer-e" (as in s-query)?<p>It's not even that I couldn't choose between two ways to read it, but that I couldn't come up with one good way to read it.<p>To me that seems like bad sign.
Often you can have name relate in some direct or indirect what to what the service does, or something unique about it.<p>If you are playing off '(In)quiry', FYI my first impression was pronouncing more like 'Squirrel', "SQUIR-Y" rather than "S-QUIR-Y".