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Good post - and very true. Almost every popular site is no more than 2-3 syllables, memorable, easy to pronounce, and a .com. Google, MSN, Yahoo, Digg, Reddit

Good post - and very true. Almost every popular site is no more than 2-3 syllables, memorable, easy to pronounce, and a .com. Google, MSN, Yahoo, Digg, Reddit, GMail, the list goes on... Too bad the squatters have got almost every other URL out there that satisfies these criteria :)

bootload 20y ago
'... Too bad the squatters have got almost every other URL ...' in some ways it really hurts. You think of an idea, go for a domain and it's being sat on. Just another stumbling block. I reckon it has forced people to be more inventive in their titles.
whacked_new 20y ago
Throw those criteria out the window. Squatting is such an uncreative thing, so squatters probably are unable to "think outside the box." I have stopped thinking these sites tell anything useful. What do you think of this one? oi.oio.io It's up for grabs (as of now), and I bet you'd remember it after a few seconds. It doesn't even need to follow a syllable rule. Too bad I don't have a product to match this name, but I think it's great. If you think otherwise, be sure to explain why.