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ScrapingNinja is becoming ScrapingBee

Today we are pleased to announce that ScrapingNinja is becoming ScrapingBee.

The rebranding was kind of forced due to a copyright issue with a company here in France, we explained it in details here: https://www.scrapingbee.com/rebranding.

The whole thing took a lot of time as we had many many things to change:

  • email accounts
  • dns entries
  • blog post
  • startup listings website
  • links and ScrapingNinja reference in emails
  • links and ScrapingNinja reference in API dashboard
  • social profile
    And of course, IndieHackers ๐Ÿ˜‡

The list goes on and on and on.

We are pretty happy with the way things went, although we experienced a 25 minutes downtime due to slow DNS propagation, the first downtime in ScrapingNinja/Bee short history.

We wish we did not have to do it, but all in all, we learned interesting things along the way that will be useful for later.

We are now hoping that all our SEO effort for ScrapingNinja won't be reduced to ashes, and are pleased to be able to move on.

Happy Scraping(๐Ÿ)

PS: If you have to do a rebranding soon, here are two articles that helped us a lot:

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    @Daolf but why bee? Did you have that name as a "plan B" from the beginning? And was there any thought of rebranding to totally different name which wouldn't involve "scraping"? (like, Stripe / Slack / Twilio and other meaningless words but more flexible for the future)

    Reason I'm asking - I have a product QuickAdminPanel to generate adminpanels, and we're thinking to expand to generate more type of stuff, so I'm silently thinking to myself should we rebrand to somehing like QuickProjects (hypothetical name) or name it totally differently with some one word, like examples above.

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      Hello,

      About the rebranding we had to do it under certain constraints:

      • We had to be quick because we were under some kind of copyright issue in France and we could not afford to be sued.
      • The name had to be "copyrightable" in France.

      Our lawyers told us that in order to have our name Copyrightable, we had to have some kind of "distinctive word" in it, we could not use only everyday words that described our products.

      Some examples of what names were copyrightable, and what names were not:

      • ScrapingAPI โŒ
      • CrawlingAPI โŒ
      • ScrapingBot โŒ
      • ScrapingWizard โœ…
      • ScrapingGuru โœ…
      • ScrapingBee โœ…

      Early on we had a shortlist of 3-4 names that we really liked, but they were either taken or not valid.

      Because we had to be quick we went for ScrapingBee. However, I am definitely going to say from now that it was because it was a "Plan B" name, it will make this choice more clever than it is ๐Ÿ˜‚.

      About your problem, if I may, I don't think a product name is important in order to have a successful product (besides copyright issues of course). In a hypothetical world without IT, I'd say that Apple, Google and Amazon are terrible brand names. So don't let this choice slow you down ๐Ÿ˜.

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        Great, thanks for taking the time to write out such detailed answer! Indeed name doesn't give success, and for you it was forced rebranding. Fingers crossed, a successful one!

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      QuickAdminPanel = > panela.io ?
      panel(panel) , a(admin) = panela.io/co/insert tld

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        Site not opening @GritCom

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          Hey, That was just a suggested domain

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        Interesting version :) But we are actually planning to runaway from exactly that word "panel", so if we are rebranding (that's still unsure) then panela won't be the one. But thanks!

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