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A few companies (justin.tv, drop.io, del.icio.us) have pulled off not being a dot-com, but this required creativity and great marketing.
by aneesh 18y ago
A few companies (justin.tv, drop.io, del.icio.us) have pulled off not being a dot-com, but this required creativity and great marketing.
- brandong 18y agoAnd I still can't remember how to get to the delicious site....
- nertzy 18y agoWell, delicious.com works these days...
- silencio 18y agothe "new" delicious preview drops that name and uses delicious.com instead. Also, delicious.com redirects to del.icio.us. also, in the very beginning when I was using delicious I'd type delicious.com instead of del.icio.us. It's just harder to remember a name like that O:p
- thorax 18y agoIt's been hard. We have some solid .com alternatives for our service, but we did decide to go with the less traditional style with http://bug.gd http://bug.gd as our service. So far it doesn't seem to hurt our traffic too much and helps us stand out a bit among tech geeks, but it's hard to say for sure. But one anecdote (and I'm sure del.icio.us has a dozen), I know PC World magazine wouldn't have misspelled our site as "bug.BD" if we had been a dotcom. (They did get the url right later as bug.gd, even if they got our "product name" wrong.) I guess the upside is we get a free mention in the next magazine when they correct that. Fun!