Contest $35 logo contest, 60 hour contest

Hi all, I own a domain marketplace website and I'm currently looking for a new logo for it.
My current logo is ok but I'm looking for enhancements.

Logo text: Neptuni

URL to see current logo and site: (n)e(p)tu(n)i.com <-- remove the brackets

Drop away the trident. I'm okay with just plain text, the text most likely have to look chrome cause I want to portray a world-class feel to it. The text can be italic, or not, what matters most is that it looks good. The chrome can add a little bit of "green" to it. Also, drop away the "beta text". I'm fine with just Nep(t)uni without the brackets. There can be another graphic vector logo accompanying the text on the left replacing the trident, but I'm not sure. Most important is the logo look amazing and looks perfect-fit to my existing blue & white color theme website.

$35 for winner. I'll give constant feedbacks and choose the winner after 60 hours from this post. Thanks all.

 

My try: http://i.imgur.com/DANThaW.jpg

 

we can change colors...

 

Hope you will like it. Let me know for any change.

 

Hi Sapphiro
My entry

 

@gamelord, katesrobyn, mike in, CEmarketer

Thanks for the attempt, but none are what I'm looking for yet.
I think I should be clearer, I don't want my logo to look more cartoonish. It should be more corporate/professional than my existing one, I'm okay with only text without any icon, but they should be vector, and maybe some minor graphic edits (e.g. maybe someparts of the word in 'neptuni' can be linked up or overlapping, or shape distorted for another character in the 'neptuni' word to overlap)


To all:
I'm open to all concepts, as long as the word "Neptuni" is part of the logo.
(vector logos with a graphical logo accompanying it are very welcome as well)

 

Here's a revision;

 

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@Kates that's better than your previous attempt, but the color theme is abit too dull

@ideo Nice attempt, do you mind showing how it would look if i implement the logo on my existing website? thanks

 

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Here's a revision;

 

ver3.0

 

@katesrobyn that's better, but still not what I'm looking for

@wend666 Nice attempt although it looks alot like my existing logo, for the graphic logo on the left it looks too military for my commercial platform

@ideosmil Your first entry with the blue logo white bacckground is not bad, better than ur chrome's version. Maybe can do some enhancements to make it more suitable to my existing website/corporate branding

@vicky786 Yours and @ideosmil 's entries are the best so far, can you change the font for "Domain Marketplace" though? And change the sub text to "World-class Domain Marketplace". For the graphic logo on the left, it looks ok, but at the moment I'm trying to avoid using trident as it looks like devils fork which might make some of my users uncomfortable.


Btw people, when I mean chrome, I don't mean the chrome gradient that you see in the old transformer cartoon in 1990s. I want something sleak, shiny, metallic, it could go along this line:
http://www.webtechelp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Elegant-Metallic.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...2UWpcm19QLPSmQqvbgf22Y9JWjK_K76usYGv-qDqpMRZg
https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=chrome logo&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZLPnU57dAcSD8gW69oDwDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=677#q=metallic corporate logo&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

For the graphical logo, if anyone were to add in, something like this is quite nice
http://c3e308.medialib.glogster.com...69169656bf94675c1972c18f9909c877e/neptune.jpg (or you can mix the neptune planet concept with 'internet' planet logos like http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ceadhi1u05rjpg/original.jpg since mine is a internet business selling domain names and named Neptuni

Thanks for the effort people, and keep the entries coming!
(would also be good if there are some web 2.0 style logo entries!)

 

@katesrobyn Getting there, but the color wise is still a little bit of a problem haha

@vicky786 logo is good, but can you resize down the graphic logo a little bit? like 10% or 20% smaller, should be about the height or slightly taller than the main logo and slogan combined. And the slogan text can still be improved, looks like arial default font


Still accepting more entries, 36 more hours. (existing entries are getting better)