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Comment author: Inyuki 02 October 2015 10:24:04PM *  0 points [-]

infty is not an English word, it is just a sequence of latin symbols, which are used in mathematical (LaTeX) texts to write lemniscate, meaning infinity, which is a mathematical concept.

If you come up with interesting truly culturally neutral name though, I'd love to know :)

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 October 2015 10:41:55AM 0 points [-]

infty is not an English word

It's an abbreviation of the English infinity and most people won't easily grasp it. Companies like Amazon and Google on the other hand have names that are a lot more neutral.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 03 October 2015 04:39:41PM 1 point [-]

What do you mean by "neutral"? Odds are you wouldn't have found the name "Google" neutral if you had just heard it for the first time.

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 October 2015 10:35:58AM 0 points [-]

Google isn't a word that's English and many languages have phonetic systems that allow such a name.

Comment author: Wes_W 03 October 2015 06:52:33PM 0 points [-]

I spent a long time associating Amazon with "something in South America, so it's probably not accessible to me" before the company was as ultra-famous as it is now.

Comment author: Inyuki 03 October 2015 12:38:45PM *  0 points [-]
  1. Domain name is not primary marketing channel.
  2. Our preferred target audience will understand.
  3. Domain name reflects our philosophy. It aims to emphasize:

. infinite love, .. long-term strategy, ... cultural neutrality.

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