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PlanetScale is such a cool name, fits really well for a database company. Just goes to show that even these days when I think that naming something new is impos
by bsnnkv 4y ago
PlanetScale is such a cool name, fits really well for a database company. Just goes to show that even these days when I think that naming something new is impossible, there is still a lot of room to be creative.
- bearjaws 4y agoThey probably paid a pretty penny for it. My first startup job was a skunks work project and we had around 128 noun-adjective pairs we wanted to find a .com domain for. All of them were taken. We had to settle on a .io domain, and this was 7 years ago. 2 year in we came up with a better name and managed to get a .com... with a dash in the URL.
- swozey 4y agoI worked at a 4 letter .com startup and we paid $800k for the domain. We never made revenue anywhere near our domain and when the company eventually shuttered the most revenue we'd ever made was selling the domain again.
- laristine 4y agoI deal in domains and stories like this still never cease to amaze me. In any case, I'm glad your company was able to sell the domain for a good sum back.
- ushakov 4y agothere are still plenty of great .com available, you just gotta be more creative
- emptysea 4y agoStartup I worked at paid like 100k + equity for a two word .com domain name and it wasn’t anywhere near as nice of name as planet scale is