How do you come up with a good name for a website or software you are building?

Question

How do i come up with a good name for a website or software am developing. Are there references for naming websites or software?

Answer 1

I let my creativity flow and write up 5-10 names.
Then i google them.If one of them is not in use, i take it. :)
I want to be the names unique ;)

Answer 2

think of a rude word to use as an acronym, and then fit in the words to make that acronym fit.

SHAFTED was the code name of one internal project I was working on

Shipment
Help
And
Full
Tracking of
Export
Documentation

OTIS was the clean version I used around managers (Order Tracking Information System)

Answer 3

Personally? I don't, they're all horrible. But after a couple days of working on the project it's just a group of letters that means "work left to do," regardless of what I called it. :)

Answer 4

Here is an idea from Paul Graham's Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas essay,

[4] I wrote a program to generate all the combinations of "Web" plus a three letter word. I learned from this that most three letter words are bad: Webpig, Webdog, Webfat, Webzit, Webfug. But one of them was Webvia; I swapped them to make Viaweb.