I am not sure there is sufficient control. I am negatively surprised to see 'chocolate dick' ('csokifasz' in Hungarian) as an approved name. Maybe there is an other meaning but if so, that one is not known to google.

And frankly would it be too much to list the approved names in alphabetical order?

My star should be called "Kkrelmm" as in "I am Elrikk of Kkrelmm"

I'm just gonna be really sad and name it after my wife. Her names Jade and I couldn't think of anything spacey so I named it Jadeux.

She always complains I never include her in my games, now I can xD

Well mine got approved. Shalmirane. It's kind of an obscure reference, but you can google it.

Yes I think they will probably need a second pass at moderation to remove all the non-English rude words and phrases people will have tried to slip in for a laugh. 

Verga should be  a valid star name. I mean, it is a valid Sovereign name.

True I had to look that one up, and it's a fair question how much should they care? They can always have adjust the list for different language additions.

The problem is that they cannot control every possible language (and their slang). But what are fans for? :p then it's up to Stardock to filter or not.

We can't go through and check each word in every language and compare it to their slang and such.  If you find something offensive in another language, you can feel free to PM it to me and I'll take a look.

Are you also going through the official names? I'm only asking because the planet-name Po, from the Altarian homesystem, means "butt" in German.

aahh now i know why its in there twice...

Bet someone was working late when he wrote down that list of planets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_(river)

Also red teletubbie and KungFu Panda character.

A word like that has several meanings.  I'm sure if we dig enough we can find lots of words that have "colorful" definitions in other languages.

That's true, besides germans wouldn't see what's funny offensive about butt anyway their sense of humour doesn't really work that way. Belive my my wife is German.

To be honest, I think there's a big difference between a short innocuous word like Po, which happens to mean "butt" in one language and someone intentionally running together words to mean something like "chocolate dick" which is extremely unlikely to be pure chance.

That or Altarian scientists have the same sense of humour as those that find Uranus funny.

As a German myself, I only know that too well.

I went with Newton. It is my son's name and there is the obvious astronomical significance.

I named mine Dragonis after a fictional planet from a fic I wrote a year ago.

Its still waiting approval so fingers crossed.

Good choice.

Does anyone know when the star naming ends?

I still can't think of what to name mine.

It will end when the beta starts.  You have time, but don't wait until the last minute.

Mine is named:  NovaFenires

How many founders are there ?

That list is getting enormous ...

So, the chance of seeing your own star in the game wil be ... ?

Also saw the name: AMRO in the list ... It is part of the name of a bank in the Netherlands ...

www.abnamro.nl

Up to Chreden, there are 1112 founder stars. Multiply by $100 (rounding up the price). Also, found my name and surname as star names.  If they ever spawn next to each other, the universe will explode.

Named mine Relyuhcsbong. and it was accepted!