Kotlin Academy changes name to Kot. Academy and re...
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z
Hey, you don't seem to have SSL enabled for the kot.academy site.
c
maybe you already know but kot is also a word in german
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m
Yes, nearly any short word has some strange meaning in some language. Though I think it is fine since it is "Kot. Academy" (with dot after "kot") so it suggests short from Kotlin.
n
kot is also a word in russian
d
But why
p
Yes, why
kot
instead of
kotlin
?
z
kotlin.academy is an existing empty site, pretty sure some poacher is sitting on it hoping someone will pay them a lot of money for the domain
e
Well, kotlin.academy was created on 2018-08-02 whereas kot.academy was created on 2018-08-10, but both domains were last updated on the 15th within minutes of each other
in the comments of the Medium post:
>> Kotlin Academy name kind of violated Kotlin trademark, so that was a reason we had to change it.
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d
And they couldn't come up with
Akotemy
? πŸ˜„
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m
Kotlin Academy was violating Kotlin trademark. About alternative names: We had maaaany ideas including kot.ac, kotademy, kacademy (what BDW also sounds close to kaka πŸ˜› ) and many more. After many discussions and asking many people for opinions we chose Kot. Academy.
Also I bought kotlin.academy during the process πŸ˜› Have much more domains which were our intermediate ideas. Finding a good name for a company is not an easy process. I think that my personal feelings to "Kot" name was also important here since I like this word.
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And I don't really care about german translation. There are many good schools that reference to poop πŸ˜„ https://learnwhileyoupoop.com/
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m
Yup, we know about them too. Our name is Kot. Academy. Also they are small and do totally different thing.
p
I’d go for Kotlean Academy πŸ˜‚
m
It is kind of that xP
I appreciate any feedback. I want this new name to be permanent πŸ™‚
d
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