Question on domain name

cyphix · Post by **cyphix** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:08 pm

I picked up the domain name raina.info some time back & Google Translate tells me it means "web" in Finnish; so was wondering if this was true? Do you guys think the domain has some value?

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AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:06 pm

I've never once countered the word in over 20 years of reading Finnish.

It means "filmstrip," a medium so obsolete that many people under 40 don't even know what it is when they hear the word for it in their native language. It also has a technical meaning in the manufacturing of paper.

Taken together with a top-level domain of .info, I hope you didn't spend anything on the name.

AldenG · Post by **AldenG** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:07 pm

P.S. The real word in Finnish for web or network is verkko.

tuulen · Post by **tuulen** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:46 pm

AldenG wrote:...It means "filmstrip," a medium so obsolete that many people under 40 don't even know what it is when they hear the word for it in their native language. It also has a technical meaning in the manufacturing of paper.

Taken together with a top-level domain of .info, I hope you didn't spend anything on the name.

Alden is right, that the literal translation of raina has nothing to do with the WWW, but yes, raina does translate as web but of another kind.

A more valuable combination could be raina.net because .net was originally for use by WWW institutions, as .net = network.

However, just what any of those combinations could be worth is purely a matter of speculation, and probably not much.

cyphix · Post by **cyphix** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:59 pm

Thanks very much guys.

I didn't pay much for the domain..... just reg fee - I don't trust online translators that much haha

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:01 am

AldenG wrote:I've never once countered the word in over 20 years of reading Finnish.

It means "filmstrip," a medium so obsolete that many people under 40 don't even know what it is when they hear the word for it in their native language. It also has a technical meaning in the manufacturing of paper.

Actually, I’d say raina is mostly used as colloquial, mundane term for “movie” these days... perhaps in a slightly pejorative/belittling/disapproving sense. Compare to “rag” for newspaper or magazine; it’s pretty much a similar word. Perhaps someone would like to buy it and set up a movie review site or online video store but I somehow doubt it, especially given the somewhat obscure “.info” TLD.

Vellamo · Post by **Vellamo** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:33 am

Yeah, raina means a movie. I haven't heard anyone use it in years, but in my childhood people used the word more.

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