\n\nSorry. I know it's clever, and all, but it's just a bad idea.\n\nAt the moment I am leaning heavily toward the name \u003Cstrong>serverfault.com\u003C/strong>. A quick straw poll on Twitter got reasonably positive results. I realize it's not as good a name as Stack Overflow.\n\nBut this site has such high risk of a billion \"how do I install my printer\" questions that the name \u003Cem>has\u003C/em> to be more obvious (e.g. the word server, specifically), and clearly indicate that \u003Cstrong>this is a community for IT Pro and SysAdmin types\u003C/strong>.\n\nI've noted many times that naming is one of the hardest things in programming, and really in life altogether. Having a \"good enough\" name to move forward and get things rolling is probably more important than getting it perfect. I liked \u003Ca href=\"http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/02/27/what-s-in-a-name.aspx\">Jon Skeet's take on this\u003C/a>, where he opens with the T.S. Eliot poem \u003Ca href=\"http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/tseliot/5536\">The Naming of Cats\u003C/a>.\n\n\u003Cblockquote>The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,\nIt isn't just one of your holiday games\n...\nWhen you notice a cat in profound meditation,\nThe reason, I tell you, is always the same:\nHis mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation\nOf the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:\nHis ineffable effable\nEffanineffable\nDeep and inscrutable singular Name.\u003C/blockquote>\n\nAnd this quote from \u003Ca href=\"http://people.famouswhy.com/phil_karlton/\">Phil Karlton\u003C/a>:\n\n\u003Cblockquote>There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.\u003C/blockquote>\n\nHaving recently \u003Ca href=\"http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001242.html\">named a human being\u003C/a>, I heartily concur.\n\n\u003Chr />\n\nIf you're part of this community and are job-hunting, look no further than our \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/system-administrator-jobs?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">system admin\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-networking?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">network admin\u003C/a> postings.","html","2009-03-16T12:00:00.000Z",{"current":246},"it-stack-overflow-update-naming-is-hard",[248,256,261],{"_createdAt":249,"_id":250,"_rev":251,"_type":252,"_updatedAt":249,"slug":253,"title":255},"2023-05-23T16:43:21Z","wp-tagcat-community","9HpbCsT2tq0xwozQfkc4ih","blogTag",{"current":254},"community","Community",{"_createdAt":249,"_id":257,"_rev":251,"_type":252,"_updatedAt":249,"slug":258,"title":260},"wp-tagcat-company",{"current":259},"company","Company",{"_createdAt":249,"_id":262,"_rev":251,"_type":252,"_updatedAt":249,"slug":263,"title":265},"wp-tagcat-serverfault-com",{"current":264},"serverfault-com","Serverfault.com","IT Stack Overflow Update: Naming is Hard",[268,274,280,286],{"_id":269,"publishedAt":270,"slug":271,"sponsored":12,"title":273},"e91d71c1-d4ea-485c-915b-9a08066eb639","2025-10-20T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":272},"from-multilingual-semantic-search-to-virtual-assistants-at-bosch-digital","From multilingual semantic search to virtual assistants at Bosch Digital",{"_id":275,"publishedAt":276,"slug":277,"sponsored":12,"title":279},"50aa93ff-e2f8-4700-a268-b1d0bdc47bb0","2025-10-15T14:00:14.825Z",{"_type":10,"current":278},"secure-coding-in-javascript","Secure coding in JavaScript",{"_id":281,"publishedAt":282,"slug":283,"sponsored":12,"title":285},"a049cba9-0033-4fa1-a6f8-22266173df37","2025-10-09T14:00:40.220Z",{"_type":10,"current":284},"who-watches-the-watchers-llm-on-llm-evaluations","Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations",{"_id":287,"publishedAt":288,"slug":289,"sponsored":12,"title":291},"151b41b3-ad6c-4a40-9de3-d652c27eb146","2025-10-08T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":290},"a-new-look-for-comments","A new look for comments",{"count":293,"lastTimestamp":12},0,["Reactive",295],{"$sarticleModal":296},false,["Set"],["ShallowReactive",299],{"sanity-KauBWkR0-xCqtNeGejR1S4hhCUF-oT01uC91tE7pwVQ":-1,"sanity-comment-wp-post-3390-1761123587084":-1},"/2009/03/16/it-stack-overflow-update-naming-is-hard"]