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What's the dot in names?
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Devore Sekk
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-02-24 07:59:32 UTC
What does the dot in alliance or corp names mean, like NC.?

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Sin Pew
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-02-24 08:45:06 UTC
Perhaps abbreviations?

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-02-24 10:46:59 UTC
Or mainly just for lols or the initial name was already taken by someone else.

NCdot for instance is a lol name related to the old Nothern Coalition (several alliances) that controlled the upper regions of 0.0-sec.

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Ione Hawke
Darkness Industries
#4 - 2012-02-24 11:32:47 UTC
Most often: Corp and Alliance names come from the same namespace. So when a corp establishes an alliance with their own name they usually put a '.' behind it.
TheBlueMonkey
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-02-24 14:04:30 UTC
Other times an alliance fails and cascades, then some people desperatly try to breath life back into it, unfortunatly they don't have access to the original name\holding corp so they need to create a "new" alliance so decide to name it something like Atlas. it then flounders for a few months before realising that Bobby was what held it together and dies... again.

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