PeerBackup Is No More. Meet DataCocoon.

As alluded to in the previous post, the Release Candidate release of my easy, automated backup application that went to the beta testers on Friday was the first to bear the name DataCocoon.

PeerBackup was always just a work-in-progress name; it doesn’t mean anything to non-techie users (and it’s aimed squarely at helping them keep their documents, photos, etc. safe) and due to its architecture shifting slightly during development, it’s misleading to techies.

After much brainstorming, pondering, poring over dictionaries, and searching for domain names which weren’t already taken (www.nameboy.com is very useful for this kind of process, although I didn’t buy the eventual domain through them), a shortlist of possibilities was sent out to a handful of carefully chosen non-techie beta testers.

Most of the possible names fell by the wayside early on in the voting, with DataCocoon seeing off two other strong contenders to emerge victorious and gain the honour of having its name engraved onto the title bar.