Recently the International Astronomical Union, IAU, put out a press release where they discussed the selling of planet names. I have some concerns about selling names and such but that is a separate point. What surprised me was that the IAU press release implied that there is an official naming scheme for exoplanets and that they manage it. I recently announced the discovery of three exoplanets and I don’t think I or anyone else on the team asked for permission from anyone to name them Kepler-37b, c and d. As far as I can tell, there is no official naming scheme for an exoplanet. Indeed, there isn’t even an official definition of what an exoplanet is.