There was a discussion about this last year here on news.yc; that approach is not at all new, and "Totally out" is absolutely incorrect. Search terms works esp

There was a discussion about this last year here on news.yc; that approach is not at all new, and "Totally out" is absolutely incorrect. Search terms works especially in trains, simply because everybody has an internet-enabled phone that has quick keys to a search function. Saying that it's the reasonable next step from the current state of affairs, and assuming it resulted from the lack of good domain names, is quite a leap in reasoning. It's been a while since I payed any attention, but I never spotted a trend of startups using nonsensical/typo domain names like they did in the US. Japan's internet culture is quite different from anywhere else, IMO.