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Thx :). Whats wrong with the name ? :)

mdonahoe 10y ago
Name is meh, but the url is worse. Why not dikalo.net? or dikalo.co? Also, "messaging done right" is a bad tagline as it doesn't tell me anything.
- ahomeDesk 10y ago
  We will offer alternative domains. dikalo.net and dikalo.co beeing one of those. Also the landing page will have more infos soon. With messaging done right we mean Messaging without you giving up any private infos. No email, no phone nr, no sign up required. In fact you can use Dikalo without ever opening an account. The reason we started with dklo.co is because we wanted people to type as little as possible.
  - ctvo 10y ago
    Correct me if I'm wrong: Most links are sent via text (email, messaging, social networks) where they're automatically turned into hyperlinks. Length isn't an issue here. When they are spoken, vowels help a lot. It's not fun to spell out D-K-L-O-DOT-CO, no not COM, CO. In the end though, I don't think it matters that much either way, just bikeshedding.
    - ahomeDesk 10y ago
      :) I think once you use the service you will get used to the name :)
      - stubish 10y ago
        I think you are lowering your conversion rate. My guess is if you do A/B testing with invitation emails, more people will use the service with a 'respectable' looking URL rather than one that looks 'dodgy'. Sure, have a short name once people are converted, but make a good first impression.
        ahomeDesk 10y ago
        Agreed. And we will def. provide better looking URLS.
- junto 10y ago
  I live in Germany. I read the domain name as d'Klo. As some kind of reference to "Klo" - the toilet.
  - ahomeDesk 10y ago
    We will offer alternate domains. But it s a big world. With other languages. Not everything is English/German/French.
    - ralfk 10y ago
      no, but you single out a huge amount of people by selecting a name that sounds bad in those languages ;)
      - ahomeDesk 10y ago
        We will offer other urls. We want of course the entire planet to use the servce. :) : )
Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Is there anything that's good with it? It's not very short, not rememberable, resembles word "dick", hard to use as a verb, doesn't have pleasant sounds, what's up with the domain "dklo"- hard to pronounce, remember etc (and then remember it's ".co" of all the unusual tlds). Where does the name even come from?
- ahomeDesk 10y ago
  Where the Dikalo name comes from is in our FAQ. I dont know we might be biased but we like Dikalo better than WhatsApp :) :)
synicalx 10y ago
It's like a contraction of 'Dick' and 'Jiggalo', and tends to attract childish giggles from people when you say it out loud

Name is meh, but the url is worse. Why not dikalo.net? or dikalo.co? Also, "messaging done right" is a bad tagline as it doesn't tell me anything.

ahomeDesk 10y ago
We will offer alternative domains. dikalo.net and dikalo.co beeing one of those. Also the landing page will have more infos soon. With messaging done right we mean Messaging without you giving up any private infos. No email, no phone nr, no sign up required. In fact you can use Dikalo without ever opening an account. The reason we started with dklo.co is because we wanted people to type as little as possible.
- ctvo 10y ago
  Correct me if I'm wrong: Most links are sent via text (email, messaging, social networks) where they're automatically turned into hyperlinks. Length isn't an issue here. When they are spoken, vowels help a lot. It's not fun to spell out D-K-L-O-DOT-CO, no not COM, CO. In the end though, I don't think it matters that much either way, just bikeshedding.
  - ahomeDesk 10y ago
    :) I think once you use the service you will get used to the name :)
    - stubish 10y ago
      I think you are lowering your conversion rate. My guess is if you do A/B testing with invitation emails, more people will use the service with a 'respectable' looking URL rather than one that looks 'dodgy'. Sure, have a short name once people are converted, but make a good first impression.
      - ahomeDesk 10y ago
        Agreed. And we will def. provide better looking URLS.
junto 10y ago
I live in Germany. I read the domain name as d'Klo. As some kind of reference to "Klo" - the toilet.
- ahomeDesk 10y ago
  We will offer alternate domains. But it s a big world. With other languages. Not everything is English/German/French.
  - ralfk 10y ago
    no, but you single out a huge amount of people by selecting a name that sounds bad in those languages ;)
    - ahomeDesk 10y ago
      We will offer other urls. We want of course the entire planet to use the servce. :) : )

Capt-RogerOver 10y ago

Is there anything that's good with it? It's not very short, not rememberable, resembles word "dick", hard to use as a verb, doesn't have pleasant sounds, what's up with the domain "dklo"- hard to pronounce, remember etc (and then remember it's ".co" of all the unusual tlds). Where does the name even come from?

ahomeDesk 10y ago
Where the Dikalo name comes from is in our FAQ. I dont know we might be biased but we like Dikalo better than WhatsApp :) :)

synicalx 10y ago

It's like a contraction of 'Dick' and 'Jiggalo', and tends to attract childish giggles from people when you say it out loud