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Is there some standard term to describe all Bitcoin-like internet currencies, like Solidcoin, Namecoin and so forth? Like "currency" is to dollar, euro, yen, etc?

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distributed digital currency, or distributed digital crypto-currency. the "distributed" bit is a key issue - anyone can make a centralized digital currency, even with crypto thrown in.

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We need some shorter name for that. – ThePiachu Oct 17 '11 at 7:00
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The "digital" part is probably unnecessary, as there is few uses for non-digital crypto-currencies. – ThePiachu Oct 17 '11 at 15:13
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indeed probably digital can be dropped... that said, what's the goal here? "the shortest name" or "the most accurate name" ? – nanotube Oct 18 '11 at 3:08
Probably the shortest of the names which are accurate, that is cover all the -coins without using a qualifier that doesn't add any information. – ThePiachu Oct 18 '11 at 6:47
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It's called crypto-currency, Wikipedia article.

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As there are no crypto-currencies that are not decentralized, this is probably the shortest of the proper terms we can use so far, but that might change in the future to "distributed crypto-currency", as pointer out by nanotube. – ThePiachu Oct 17 '11 at 15:10
"As there are no crypto-currencies that are not decentralized" <- this is false. see, e.g., loom.cc. – nanotube Oct 18 '11 at 3:09
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I think crypto-currency is the good term.

But personnally I tend to use digital currency because crypto can scare some users.

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