Have you been studying names this year? Submit your paper for presentation at the annual meeting, January 7-10th, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The deadline for submissions is July 1st. Click here for more information.… Read More
Updated: Books Reviewed in Names: A Journal of Onomastics
New Domain Names Coming Soon
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is planning to increase the current selection of domain names beyond the generic top-level domains like .com, .net, and .org. In anticipation, many companies have already begun to apply for their own brand name domains. The costs of placing an official application and paying for the accompanying legal and consulting fees for one of the trendy domain names can reach upwards of 1 million US dollars.
NamesCon, Las Vegas, January 10-13 2016
NamesCon, one of the world’s largest international conferences devoted exclusively to domain names will be holding its next conference in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 10th to the 13th of January 2016. According to the founder and CEO, this year’s event promises to be the largest ever gathering of domainers. Click here for more information.
Asian Association of Lexicography Conference, Hong Kong, June 25-27 2015
The Asian Association of Lexicography (ASIALEX) will be holding its 9th annual international conference in Hong Kong, from the 25th to the 27th of June, 2015. The theme of the conference is “Words, Dictionaries and Corpora: Innovation in reference science.” Click here for more information.
Find Out What Your Name Would Be if You Were Born Today
Lexicalization Patterns in Colour Naming: a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, Vienna, February 18-21 2016
A conference on “Lexicalization Patterns in Colour Naming: a Cross-Linguistic Perspective” will be held on from the 18th to the 21st of February 2016 in Vienna, Austria. The primary aim of the event is to provide a forum for discussing the morphology, syntactic, and lexical patterns evident in Indo-European languages.
… Read More Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 30-31 2015
The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) will be holding its 49th Annual Meeting from the 30th to the 31st of May 2015 at the University of Ottawa.
5th Symposium on Names in the Economy, Verona, Italy, June 24-27 2015
The University of Verona will be holding the 5th Symposium on Names in the Economy in Verona, Italy, from the 24th to the 27th of June 2015. The conference focus is on corpus linguistics, marketing, and company brand naming.
Most Popular Baby Names of 2014 by State
Click here for a map of the US Social Security Administration most popular girls’ and boys’ names of 2014 by state.… Read More