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Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.
by jszymborski 4y ago
Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.
- Jack000 4y agoWordle is a great name - it's short, only two syllables and relates directly to the product. A better example of a bad name might be Ycombinator. It's not immediately obvious what it means, and if you say it aloud it sounds like a question. Doesn't seem to matter much if you're successful enough though.
- daemontus 4y agoWordle is a great name. But strictly speaking, at no point there was `wordle.com` or anything similar. Wordle always lived as a humble page on a larger domain. Which I believe was the point of the original comment: That if your product (name) is good, domain is secondary. The vast majority of users can just google at this point (which might not have been true 20 years ago).
- gregmac 4y agoFor context, the original URL was http://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle http://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle Now it's https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html It's never been wordle.com (or even at any TLD), and despite that: > Over 300,000 people played Wordle on January 2, 2022, up from 90 players on November 1, 2021, a figure that rose to over 2 million a week later. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle#Rise_in_popularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle#Rise_in_popularity