First, a promise.  I read a previous thread where a questioner asked
for business names and then rejected the answers.  That stinks.  We
are honourable people (though we do ask a lot!!).

So what are we looking for .... a business name for a telephone
company (reselling calls, not equipment), with a uniquely convenient
payment plan (I could say painless, but payment is never painless, is
it?).  Great call quality, value, service etc of course.  Principally
aimed at domestic customers making international calls.
The business name MUST be registerable in Australia, and the domain
name (or some reasonable version of it) available, ideally in .com or
.biz or at least in .com.au.
STRONGLY PREFER something simple, easy to spell/pronounce, and
carrying a mix of ideas from telephone call, convenience, value for
money, and global reach.  These are pretty much in order of importance
as we see it.  All this would be nice but our 2nd line of thinking was
maybe a friendly name that led to an attractive logo.  Maybe an
Australian flavour?  (eg We tried "Starfish" but many variations of
this are already registered in Oz.)  Customer image desired is
approachable, good product, no hassles.  Don't want much do we?!!
Oh, and we need to avoid unwanted associations.  Like "Worldcom" and
"One.Tel".  We already looked at names including "chat" (friendly,
chat to your friends kind of idea) - and didn't understand why there
were so many registered until we caught on they were sex chat lines. 
Duh.

We are in the services business so we understand the use of time, and
will help researchers and/or interact with you if that makes better
use of your time.  eg It might be a good idea if we cull an initial
list of your ideas before digging into what variations are
registerable ... but that's only a thought (and I don't even know if
Google Answers makes that practical - our first go at this).

If possible, a reply by Friday 15 August would be good.  Thanks for your help.

Greetings Drmike333:

You are very kind to offer assurances to a Researcher!  :)

I have been working on your query since yesterday and I have some
ideas for your consideration.  As you know, Google Answers has the
Clarification feature so that we may continue discussion indefinitely
before you rate and close the question, so please feel free to request
other directions for my ideas.

To save you time (and being enamored with a name that can't be
registered as a domain) I have checked already my name suggestions in
the WhoIs database:

CommuniTel.com.au
CommuniTel.biz

CommuniLink.com.au

CommuniChat.com.au
Communichat.biz

IntelliLink.com.au

IntelliGlobe.com.au

InterGlobal.com.au

InterLink.com.au 

TeleTelNetwork.com
TeleGlobeNetwork.com
TeleGlobeAustralia.com

InterGlobeAustralia.com

KangaTel.com

KoalaTel.com

QualiTelComm.com
QualiTelNetwork.com
QualiTelComlink.com
QualiTelNetwork.com
QualiTelSolutions.com


I'm partial to KangaTel and KoalaTel because both have a solid
Australian and telecommunications reference *and* they are dotcoms.  I
also believe that your logo design could really shine with the koala
and kangaroo options.

Please review my suggestions and let me know if you'd like me to take
a different direction.

Best regards,
journalist-ga 


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Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 13 Aug 2003 10:34 PDT

While researching for another question, I came upon the word
"walloping" - I immediately associated it with one of the terms in
Pinkfreud's comment to you.  Here's a whimsical suggestion as a name
for your company:  WallopingWombat.com is available.  ;)

Just a bit of whimsy...

In the United States, we used to call our telephone service "Ma Bell."

In honor of the wombats, koalas, kangaroos, and other pouched
creatures, it might be fun to name an Australian telecom business "Ma
Supial". ;-)