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Was it ever named “relentless” at some point? I’ve heard that was the original name, relentless.com still redirects to Amazon.com.
by obenn 6y ago
Was it ever named “relentless” at some point? I’ve heard that was the original name, relentless.com still redirects to Amazon.com.
- trts 6y agoThey must have turned off the redirect sometime in the past few years. diapers.com also used to land on amazon.com :)
- ngold 6y agoGotta hedge your bets, but I'm glad that I don't shop at diapers.com.
- B1FF_PSUVM 6y agoIncidentally, books.com was taken early on (say 1990) by an outfit in Ohio. Pre-web, they had a telnet interface.
- gxqoz 6y agoThere are a couple of institutions in the Seattle area that have pretty good generic domain names, presumably because of the tech connections in the area. For instance, the Washington State Fair has the domain thefair.com.
- mmmrtl 6y agoLocal zoo is zoo.org!
- gxqoz 6y agoOh yeah, forgot about that one.
- selimthegrim 6y agoImagine the Seafair pirates or Almost Live! shaking everyone down for domain names.
- aidenn0 6y agoIIRC amazon bought-out diapers.com; it was certainly some diaper startup that they are accused of using predatory pricing against.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThat does sound vaguely familiar. Jeff did have a handful of other "name candidates" sitting around, and this seems like one in keeping with the sort of thing he was thinking about. I don't specifically remember it though.
- abhiyerra 6y agoI thought it was endless.com that also redirects to Amazon.com
- spullara 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless.com
- benatkin 6y agoNow he can make it redirect to blueorigin.com - or not. IDK.
- tybit 6y agoI've also heard this and still think `relentless` is the best way to describe Amazon's behaviour I've heard, love em or hate em.
- nytesky 6y agoI believe Bezos was a huge fan of Shackleton’s Endurance expedition; so it could have been homage to that.
- davidrupp 6y ago"Bezos and his wife grew fond of another possibility: Relentless.com. Friends suggested that it sounded a bit sinister. But something about it must have captivated Bezos: he registered the URL in September 1994, and he kept it. Type Relentless.com into the Web today and it takes you to Amazon." -- Stone, Brad. The Everything Store (p. 31). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition. N.B.: "Today", in the context of that quote, is ca. 2013, when the book was published. relentless.com redirected to amazon.com for me this morning (2021-02-03).