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Help me pick a name for my app

13 points by robertgaal ↗ HN
I'm developing a simple service that converts timezones. Yes, I know this already exists, but the difference will be in the details.

I'm looking for a fun and remarkable (domain-)name for this app. Something around clocks, times, dates, timezones, different locations, etc.

I thought it would be cool to ask you guys as a kind of experiment, and hopefully something great will come along. So HN, could you help me out?

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sjs382
jacktheticker, some variation of coo coo clock (cucuclock?), stophammertime, zonedrone, ticktockclock, ticktocktime, hourhand, hourglassfast, sundial, moondial,

Chron Jeremy -- has a built in mascot. a hedgehog

Didn't check them for availability at all, but that's a quick brainstorm...

selfish
how about just "cuckoo"?
jparicka
simpleservicethatconvertstimezoneswiththedifferenceinthedetails.com
andr
Make sure you get the .net and .org before domain spammers steal it.
robertgaal
All very good submissions! No real winner yet thought, and not all are available domain names.
hopin
yourglobaltime.com
slater
outtati.me

(and many other *ti.me possibilities)

pclark
whatsthetime.in

would be quite neat to go to http://whatsthetime.in/London

markessien
You win. Can't do better than that, I'd say.
listic
You may want to look into possibilities of securing even shorter domain name, i.e. ideally it would be http://time.in/London
markessien
Lots of possibilities there: querytime.in, gettime.in, localtime.in, thetime.in. Godaddy actually offers .in domains. If I were OP I'd just register then all, and let the ones die that friends and family don't like.
pclark
either go super short or go memorable. I think whatsthetime.in works because its literally what you'd ask.
kevTheDev
localized versions? Are there any domains like .in which mean "in" in other languages?
catz
in is a fairly global word. If you play around in Google translate you will see that in is in in German and Dutch.
blender
chronvert.com is available...
listic
You may want to see how Yandex did it: http://time.yandex.ru There are links for switching between analog and digital clock on top of the page.

I've found this service by pure accident. Once I've needed to know what time is it now in some other city and I thought "hasn't Yandex made a service for this already?" It turned out, they did!

IMO, that's the ideal version of this service. But if you invented something better (the details you mentioned) - more power to you!

listic
One other service I discovered the similar way is http://mirror.yandex.ru - it turned out that they maintain a comprehensive mirror of open source software, might be useful if you live in Russia; I actually get downloads at higher speeds because Yandex has special agreement with my ISP (Peterstar).
macco
huntanelk.com

Is elk common in the us?

bravura
whattheclock.com

What the clock!?