OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again • Hacker News Board

I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these.

The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more important than purpose.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by blurayfin » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:34 AM UTC

and openclaw.com is a law firm.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by NewJazz » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:36 AM UTC

blurayfin wrote: post #5

and openclaw.com is a law firm.

Yeah I was about to say... Don't fall into the Anguilla domain name hack trap. At the very least, buy a backup domain under an affordable gTLD. I guess the .com is taken, hopefully some others are still available (org, net, ... others)

Edit: looks like org is taken. Net and xyz were registered today... Hopefully one of them by the openclaw creators. All the cheap/common gtlds are indeed taken.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by kube-system » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:36 AM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #4

I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these. The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more import…

As the article says, it’s a 2 month old weekend project. It’s doing a lot better than my two month old weekend projects.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by Jarwain » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #4

I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these. The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more import…

I draw the opposite conclusion. Willingness to change the name leads me to conclude purpose is more important than identity.

Now if it changes _again_ that's a different story. If it changes Too Much, it becomes a distraction

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by kube-system » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

blurayfin wrote: post #5

and openclaw.com is a law firm.

From a trademark perspective, that’s totally fine.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by Paracompact » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 7:41 AM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #4

I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these. The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more import…

Which random asshole? Haven't heard about it.