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I can see your point of view.. What I was trying to convey - albeit poorly - was a more holistic view of the domain, ie. the domain on the side of a truck. The
by eightturn 10y ago
I can see your point of view.. What I was trying to convey - albeit poorly - was a more holistic view of the domain, ie. the domain on the side of a truck. The domain on a tablecloth. The domain on a bumpersticker.
If I saw a plumber driving around Atlanta with www.AtlantaPlumber.com on his truck, #1 - it'd be easy for me to remember, and #2 it'd be a more positive than negative perception of that business.
- solutionyogi 10y agoAre you the author of this post? Is there any way to contact you?
- maxerickson 10y agoAre there plumbers in Atlanta that aren't fully booked without having nice domain names?
- alasdair_ 10y agoIf they are fully booked, they should be raising their prices.
- louprado 10y agoThis is even more important if your business uses e-mail to communicate with customers. I used to own a print business with a .net domain name. We'd often tell a new customer our e-mail address at the end of our first phone call. But too many times customers would just type .com in the e-mail address and then assume that our business has lousy service. After a few months I paid a cyber-squatter (if that is still the appropriate term) $1600 for the .com version of our name and I never regretted that decision.
- eightturn 10y agoauthor here: yes.. this.. side story, a friend of mine owns a city dotCOM name that also has a university with the corresponding .edu.. He receives email regularly from students pleading (to teachers) for an extra day for thesis completion or a gpa bump : )
- df3 10y agoPeople click strong and authoritative names. Generic domains often are strong and authoritative, but they aren't the only example of strong and authoritative names. I think your article misses this point. One thing I would mention is that many people know that names like "BikeTours.com" were the first to be registered in the early Internet days, and these days do carry a degree of trust through age.