Australia’s Place Naming Committee has just announced that a suburb in Canberra will be named after Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who died in March 2015, after serving nearly 20 years.  Australia has a long tradition of honoring deceased political leaders with toponyms.  Another recent onomastic honoree includes Gough Whitlam, Australia’s 21^st Prime Minister.

The Geographical Names Board (GNB) is calling for public comments on the naming of an Australian location near Washington Avenue in Riverwood Washington Park. Click here to submit a name, see the GNB website. The deadline for submissions is Friday, the 29^th of May 2015.

Read about sky country names in this New York Times piece In Flight about a pilot’s-eye view of life in the sky.

EU court rules that the Skype name is too similar to the name of the Broadcaster, Sky.  For that reason, Microsoft has been prohibited from registering the Skype name as a trademark.

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