3 ms·
Pardon the unsolicited suggestion but you may want to reconsider your domain name. I'm not sure how academics would be on misspelling "scholar" even if it's a
by terrellm 16y ago
Pardon the unsolicited suggestion but you may want to reconsider your domain name.
I'm not sure how academics would be on misspelling "scholar" even if it's a clever URL hack. It's sort of like wearing a suit with sleeves too long and pant legs too short to your job at a fashion designer - it just doesn't fit in that context. That's just my opinion.
Also, there's another site at scholar.ly that has its own coming soon page.
- mhluongo 16y agoI've reached out to the owner of scholar.ly, but he isn't interested in selling. This is an ongoing contention with us- do you think it'd be valuable, considering the time tradeoff, to survey grad students and test a few names?
- terrellm 16y agoWhen I was in a similar situation a few months back, I chose to find another option rather than running the risk of confusion by my customers with me on the losing end. While instinctive for many HN'ers, remembering to misspell and use .ly is an unnecessary burden for people like parents and non-tech friends. In my case, the average age of someone in my market is 50+ so I went with a .com. A disclaimer is that I do invest some in domain names on the side. Unfortunately I hadn't bought this particular name years ago so had to pay $1500 for it.