It's a domain fad that (as far as I can tell) started with Writely becoming popular five years ago. Here's a rundown of recent domain fads as I recall them: 2

It's a domain fad that (as far as I can tell) started with Writely becoming popular five years ago. Here's a rundown of recent domain fads as I recall them: 2003: del.icio.us con.fuses.us 2004: 37signals helps create 43 Things and Jay-Z has "99 Problems" -- coincidence? I think not. 2005: Flickr makes a splash and gets acquired, penultimate vowels no longr requird 2006: Writely, the superbly adverbly named webapp, goes Googly 2007: Xobni presses rewind (okay, this one never took off) 2008: Adverbs come on stronger with .ly 2009: URL shorteners go.to 6 characters or less I can't actually think of a domain name fad that hit last year. Any suggestions?