How six memorable tech companies got their names

Just imagine if instead of "Googling" something, you "BackRubbed" it.

Go Daddy You have to wonder whether Go Daddy would have succeeded had the company kept its original name: Jomax Technologies.

Within a couple of years, founder Bob Parsons and his team realized they needed a better moniker if they were ever to make it in the crowded online world. Days of brainstorming led nowhere, but then someone -- in what we can only assume was a joke -- suggested the name "Big Daddy."

Unfortunately (or fortunately, perhaps), BigDaddy.com was already taken. But GoDaddy.com, as luck would have it, was not.

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