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Couldn't agree more. Google, Yahoo, Twitter. Three global brands that aren't dictionary names, and don't have to be. You don't need a dictionary word .com to

Couldn't agree more. Google, Yahoo, Twitter. Three global brands that aren't dictionary names, and don't have to be. You don't need a dictionary word .com to survive either.

natch 11y ago
All companies that have their .com, and have had since the beginning as far as I know.
molecule 11y ago
'Yahoo' and 'twitter' actually are words that existed in the dictionary before the respective companies.
tajen 11y ago
All combinations of 6 letters .com are taken. All 16k words of the dictionary are taken in English. It wasn't even the case 2 years ago. I wonder whether pg's impression that if is possible to get a .com is outdated.
- huac 11y ago
  I agree - he even signals to that by noting that only 2/3 of the current batch owns their dot com. I predict this number will go down for the next batch, and the next one, and ...
- mehrdada 11y ago
  > All combinations of 6 letters .com are taken. Do you mean this literally for any 6 random characters? It rings true for 4, but I believe you can easily find a 5 character domain name even now. In fact, I just registered three five character and a six character domains without much trouble.
  - ghufran_syed 11y ago
    we registered a new 6 letter .com 8 months ago for 20 dollars.
- taprun 11y ago
  I found an available 6 letter domain name ( http://TapRun.com http://TapRun.com ) about a year and a half ago. I've found others since then...
- therealmarv 11y ago
  this is nonsense. I registered normally a good speakable 5 letter .com domain just 3 weeks ago.
- taprun 11y ago
  BoxGal.com is currently available. I'm sure others are as well.
- CPLX 11y ago
  This sounds implausible to me. I have acquired a couple five letter domains in the past year or three. They kind of suck and are hard to pronounce but they exist.
- cmstoken 11y ago
  Sorry but that's complete nonsense. That's over 2.5 billion domains. You probably mean all 6 letter English dictionary words -- which might be true.
- beau 11y ago
  It's hard to find an available .com. But that doesn't mean you can't get one: https://instantdomainsearch.com/aftermarket/ https://instantdomainsearch.com/aftermarket/
CydeWeys 11y ago
Twitter and Yahoo are dictionary words, and Google is just a misspelling (intentional or accidental, it's unclear) of a dictionary word. All three did own their .com domain names from the very beginning.
- ericabiz 11y ago
  > All three did own their .com domain names from the very beginning. Twitter did not; it started out as twttr: http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
untog 11y ago
And Twitter started as twttr, if I recall.
- tmarthal 11y ago
  And Facebook as thefacebook.com

Couldn't agree more. Google, Yahoo, Twitter. Three global brands that aren't dictionary names, and don't have to be. You don't need a dictionary word .com to survive either.

natch 11y ago

All companies that have their .com, and have had since the beginning as far as I know.

molecule 11y ago

'Yahoo' and 'twitter' actually are words that existed in the dictionary before the respective companies.

tajen 11y ago

All combinations of 6 letters .com are taken. All 16k words of the dictionary are taken in English. It wasn't even the case 2 years ago. I wonder whether pg's impression that if is possible to get a .com is outdated.

huac 11y ago
I agree - he even signals to that by noting that only 2/3 of the current batch owns their dot com. I predict this number will go down for the next batch, and the next one, and ...
mehrdada 11y ago
> All combinations of 6 letters .com are taken. Do you mean this literally for any 6 random characters? It rings true for 4, but I believe you can easily find a 5 character domain name even now. In fact, I just registered three five character and a six character domains without much trouble.
- ghufran_syed 11y ago
  we registered a new 6 letter .com 8 months ago for 20 dollars.
taprun 11y ago
I found an available 6 letter domain name ( http://TapRun.com http://TapRun.com ) about a year and a half ago. I've found others since then...
therealmarv 11y ago
this is nonsense. I registered normally a good speakable 5 letter .com domain just 3 weeks ago.
taprun 11y ago
BoxGal.com is currently available. I'm sure others are as well.
CPLX 11y ago
This sounds implausible to me. I have acquired a couple five letter domains in the past year or three. They kind of suck and are hard to pronounce but they exist.
cmstoken 11y ago
Sorry but that's complete nonsense. That's over 2.5 billion domains. You probably mean all 6 letter English dictionary words -- which might be true.
beau 11y ago
It's hard to find an available .com. But that doesn't mean you can't get one: https://instantdomainsearch.com/aftermarket/ https://instantdomainsearch.com/aftermarket/

CydeWeys 11y ago

Twitter and Yahoo are dictionary words, and Google is just a misspelling (intentional or accidental, it's unclear) of a dictionary word. All three did own their .com domain names from the very beginning.

ericabiz 11y ago
> All three did own their .com domain names from the very beginning. Twitter did not; it started out as twttr: http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/

untog 11y ago

And Twitter started as twttr, if I recall.

tmarthal 11y ago
And Facebook as thefacebook.com