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Old 09-22-2011, 05:25 PM  
helterskelter808
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Originally Posted by lazycash View Post
On a side note though, the popularity of livejasmin.com proves you can still take a $10 domain and turn it into a top 50 web property. I think of the 50 or so cam programs I've seen come and go over the last decade, AWE's livejasmin.com is probably the most obscure and least brandable main cam site name I've seen. Unless I'm missing something, why "jasmin"? In the US, the name is generally spelled Jasmine. I've never seen any explanation of that name selection, does "jasmin" mean something in another language?
I always thought it was about the best name of all because it was obscure. webcams.com like to jerk off over their name but IMHO it's bland and a poor relative of cams.com, Streamate is so bad they had to register Streammate too. Imlive is also no great shakes, IMO. LJ is unusual enough to be memorable. JOYourself OTOH.... I think they were just seeing how far they could go with absurd names.

As for LiveJasmin, it simply comes from their 'parent' Hungarian company, Jasmin, right? Perhaps the name is from a relative or child of one of the founders, though IIRC they used to have the flower on the jasmin.hu page years ago, so I always thought it was from the plant.
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