Dim Sum: i-Newswire.com brings us an interesting press release:

The Brand Name Awards for 2004, known affectionately as The Brandies, invites all interested parties to nominate names for a Name Award for 2004 by visiting www.BrandNameAwards.com. Anyone can enter a name online, and have a chance to win their own copy of the award trophy — a beautiful brandy snifter glass engraved with a branding iron. For this inaugural event, names will be judged in the categories of Best New Business Name, Best New Product Name, Best Name Change and Best Sole Proprietorship. Only names that came to prominence in 2004 are eligible for submission. The winning names will be selected by an eminent panel of judges representing naming agencies, branding agencies, marketing professionals, academia, promo companies, sponsors and all the related media sources. Separate awards will be given in each category for different industries so that a name in business, say, does not have to compete against a consumer name in pharmaceuticals or some other unrelated arena.

…The Brand Name Awards are organized and sponsored by Brighter Naming, home of the Name Critic. They are Silicon Valley’s full service independent naming agency, providing names for all sizes of companies, products, services and other agencies worldwide.

The irony of Brighter Naming producing and judging naming awards is of course manifest in the names that occupy their own portfolio, which include such delicacies as:

Metalum, Diagenes,Swanora, Imbala, Zonare,Netrova,Concuity,Epizon,Vothe, Ultrada,Synetics, Cataligent, Empriva, Immersant, Intira, Acterra, and Telispire.

A complete listing of Brighter Naming transgressions can be viewed here. Nominate your favorite today!