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marcinmoskala

08/20/2018, 4:05 PM
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zsmb

08/20/2018, 4:25 PM
Hey, you don't seem to have SSL enabled for the kot.academy site.
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christophsturm

08/20/2018, 4:26 PM
maybe you already know but kot is also a word in german
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marcinmoskala

08/20/2018, 5:14 PM
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.
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nfrankel

08/20/2018, 5:18 PM
kot is also a word in russian
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Daniel

08/20/2018, 5:24 PM
But why
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Pavlo Liapota

08/20/2018, 5:28 PM
Yes, why
kot
instead of
kotlin
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zsmb

08/20/2018, 5:30 PM
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
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eddie

08/20/2018, 5:32 PM
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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Daniel

08/20/2018, 5:34 PM
And they couldn't come up with
Akotemy
? 😄
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marcinmoskala

08/20/2018, 7:35 PM
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 😛 ) and many more. After many discussions and asking many people for opinions we chose Kot. Academy.
Also I bought kotlin.academy during the process 😛 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 😄 https://learnwhileyoupoop.com/
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marcinmoskala

08/21/2018, 1:55 PM
Yup, we know about them too. Our name is Kot. Academy. Also they are small and do totally different thing.
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pivovarit

09/30/2018, 6:02 AM
I’d go for Kotlean Academy 😂
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marcinmoskala

09/30/2018, 2:56 PM
It is kind of that xP
I appreciate any feedback. I want this new name to be permanent 🙂
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Daniel

10/27/2018, 6:06 PM
Academy.kt
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