Naming schemes

Naming schemes are used when dealing with a number of objects which need memorable names, e.g. servers. Choosing names that are all related helps ensure the names are not difficult to remember. The process of picking a naming scheme can be a slow and difficult process often delaying work, so below is a list of naming schemes to help make that process easier. Most of these were collected from #vtluug but others may have been added later.

1. People at work
2. Pokemon
3. LOTR
4. Norse gods
5. Latin words
6. Phonetic alphabet
7. Circuit components
8. Types of shoes
9. Radio scientists
10. Dumb hashtags (yolo, swag, nsfw)
11. Failed memes
12. VT football players
13. Small disease carrying rodents
14. Flavours of milk
15. Nicholas cage filmography
16. Things that look bad without spaces (pen island)
17. Racial slurs
18. Cheeses
19. Post it note knock off brand names
20. Jellies
21. Knock off cereals
22. Types of pasta
23. Body parts
24. Knock off brands of shoes
25. Knock off brands of gaming systems
26. Letters
27. Local radio stations
28. Mexican radio stations
29. Non-corresponding Linux distros
30. Shitty Christmas presents
31. wallmani's alternate handles
32. Lesser known holidays
33. Pagan holidays
34. NSFW subreddits
35. Mental diseases
36. Popes
37. Soviet leaders
38. Religions
39. Pony names
40. Profanity in foreign languages
41. x86 mnemonic opcodes
42. "whore" in different languages
43. Alternate names for brothel
44. Innocuous words that are also stripper names (destiny, candy, unique)
45. Words that are euphemisms for child pornography
46. Slang for erections
47. Condom brands
48. Sexual innuendos
49. Owners of the rings of power
50. Penn state rape puns
51. Popular song titles
52. Different *sexuals (homosexual, heterosexual, metrosexual)
53. Different fetishes
54. Types of naming schemes (colours, norsegods)
55. Song lyrics
56. Bike manufacturers
57. Names of weird subcultures
58. Different types of video files
59. Text editors
60. Sith lords
61. Fandoms
62. Common vim key sequences
63. Dragon shouts
64. Marijuana strains
65. Drugs
66. Nucleotide bases
67. Take the IP address in quad dot notation and convert every number to the corresponding letter of the alphabet, and replace . with -
68. Every machine = 'lo' * last number in IP address
69. Chopstick manufacturers
70. Bender's catchphrases
71. Starship captains
72. Last octet of the IP address
73. Goa'ulds
74. Classes at VT
75. Linux kernel maintainers
76. Cthulu mythos
77. YouTube ids of Rickroll videos
78. The nth unique word from a Claude Shannon paper
79. Ant pheromones
80. Hashes of the 100 most used passwords
81. Last names of graduates from a VT department for a certain year
82. Names of people listed as graduates from VT on Wikipedia
83. Famous comedians
84. Different words to describe a bit that is 1 (up, high, on)
85. Pixar movies
86. Members of VTLUUG
87. Buzzwords
88. Dr. Who companions
89. Cryptography ciphers
90. Vulcans
91. Comic book fighting sounds
92. VT presidents
93. VT hall names
94. Dubstep sounds
95. Names of teen magazines
96. Names of tabloids
97. Publicly unrouteable IP addresses
98. Windows codenames
99. Variations on cool story bro
100. Windows security vulnerabilities
101. Virus names
102. US government-sponsored viruses
103. Ways to say dying
104. Euphemisms for genitalia
105. Ways to say pwnd
106. Roman battles
107. Massacres throughout history
108. Nuclear weapons testing codenames
109. Failed Russian space missions
110. Names of engineering disasters
111. Names of people allegedly abducted by aliens
112. Castles in Europe
113. Names of failing infrastructure in the US
114. Assassinated political leaders
115. Mob bosses
116. James bond love affairs
117. Common measurements of alcohol
118. Pigs
119. Elevator manufacturers (Otis, Dover, ThyssenKrupp, Montgomery, Kone, Southern, Schindler, Westinghouse, Mitsubishi, etc)
120. Shark species
121. Dinosaur species
122. Dictators
123. North Korean leaders, military technology, etc
124. Evil computers/networks (e.g. WOPR, GlaDOS, Skynet)
125. Soviet spacecraft
126. Elements
127. Planets
128. Types of alcohol
129. Famous chefs
130. Futurama characters
131. aam puns (e.g. aamazing, aamberalert)
132. Eastern block secret police agencies (e.g. KGB, Stasi, Securitate, etc.)
133. Genders invented by tumblr
134. Failed US presidential candidates
135. Herbs / spices
136. Fruits
137. US political scandals (watergate, teapotdome, benghazi, trump, ...)
138. Farm machinery (tractor, combine, baler, plow, ...)
139. Cults (telnoratti has some examples)
140. Ousted Trump administration members (bannon, spicer, comey, omarosa, flynn, priebus, price, scaramucci, ...)
141. People indicted by Robert Mueller
142. Icelandic volcanoes
143. Root vegetables
144. Obsolete electronics (vcr, teletype, telegraph, answering machine, fax, rotary dial, terminal, dotmatrix, floppy)
145. Characters from hacker movies
146. Gemstones
147. The nonsensical multi-word street names from drab suburban developments in your home town (lindenshade, rustlingoak, sunsetknoll, songsparrow, etc)
148. Feeder creeks of the New River (toms, stroubles, slatebranch, peak)
149. VTLUUG member callsigns
150. COVID variants