A most unfortunate company name

Ian P. Hines said on 21 August 2010 at 11:32 am:

Yeah, they really didn’t think that one through.

Justin 'Juarin' King said on 21 August 2010 at 11:36 am:

That’s too funny, haha.

Jeffrey Zeldman said on 21 August 2010 at 11:37 am:

I like the “Richard Analify” business card treatment toward the top right.

Bob Koon said on 21 August 2010 at 11:42 am:

Hmmm…not so much awareness it would seem.

Rich said on 21 August 2010 at 11:43 am:

I’m kind of saddened that your alt attribute is empty on this one. Did you not want to get into the Google SERP for this one?

Jeffrey Zeldman said on 21 August 2010 at 11:57 am:

Good point, Rich. I’ve reconsidered the alt attribute and updated the entry accordingly.

Kreshnik said on 21 August 2010 at 12:00 pm:

Their tag line should be: Missing no holes to keep your business safe.

Chris Armstrong said on 21 August 2010 at 12:14 pm:

It’s bad, but http://www.ferrethandjobs.com is worse :D

Richard La Bella said on 21 August 2010 at 12:21 pm:

Yes, as much as I liked the shortness and sound of the name (when pronounced correctly); I am in the middle of a rebranding campaign – now to be called “La Bella Security Group”. We just launched a month ago and going forward, I have made sure all ideas and concepts are shared with my mastermind group to avoid this kinds of problem. Lessons learned, Thanks for speaking up!
– Richard La Bella

Art said on 21 August 2010 at 12:30 pm:

Shades of Tobias Funke’s Analrapist business cards on Arrested Development.

dusoft said on 21 August 2010 at 12:41 pm:

This “connection” comes to mind as well when seeing Google ANALytics.

Yoosuf said on 21 August 2010 at 12:51 pm:

LOL, its seems like some position for sex :D

Allan Lund Hansen said on 21 August 2010 at 12:57 pm:

Well maybe they did think about it exactly to get free publicity just like this ;)

jeff said on 21 August 2010 at 1:19 pm:

Well, when it comes to security you HAVE to be a bit retentify

qbin2001 said on 21 August 2010 at 7:09 pm:

LOL. I’m from Poland, and there are at least two world brand names thats are funny for us: “Osram” (lightbulb producer) – it means in polish “I’ll make a s..it on something”, and “SyFy” (Poland is the only country where station name is, and wiil be “Sci-Fi”) – it means “crap”. You don’t wont to watch crappy TV, do you? Brand names can be tricky ;-)

Lauri said on 21 August 2010 at 8:24 pm:

Brings me back to the bad name I chose for my web design business years ago, “well-developed design”. Don’t think I didn’t consider the double entendre but, hey, the url was available and I thought the play on the word “develop” was cute, lol. Unfortunately, since my initials are LM, my email address was lm@welldeveloped.com. Damn lowercase “L” looks like an uppercase “I”! When a client said he deleted my email because he thought it was porn spam, I finally decided to change my name.

Josh said on 22 August 2010 at 12:08 pm:

Wow, thats funny! Roaring at that company name right now. Somebody didn’t do their market research!

Evan Skuthorpe said on 23 August 2010 at 4:18 am:

too funny. surely someone spotted that somewhere along the line…

Theo said on 23 August 2010 at 6:47 am:

LOL, meanwhile there is an error 404 on the site so i assume they did read your post as well.

Brade said on 23 August 2010 at 11:05 am:

Chris Armstrong, what’s amazing about that one is their slogan:
Is your business in the right HANDS?

It’s like a double rainbow of obliviousness.

But luckily they too are changing their URL, according to an alert on their site…

Vurso said on 23 August 2010 at 12:01 pm:

Haha,

I am pretty sure this name was thought up by a non-US/European person/body (or someone who doesn’t understand innuendos) and was/were paid a lot of money.

From the people that brought you ‘Updation’ – awesome!

/Nice logo though/