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Congrats guys! There's a lot to like about Stripe, but my absolute favorite under-appreciated thing is their name and domain name. Hard to quantify just how m
by staunch 15y ago
Congrats guys!
There's a lot to like about Stripe, but my absolute favorite under-appreciated thing is their name and domain name.
Hard to quantify just how much it helped, but I seriously doubt they would have had quite this trajectory with a name like Chargerly.com or even possibly Stripe.io.
- wmf 15y agoBut they don't even use the magnetic stripe!
- RandallBrown 15y agoThey're the new stripe.
- alapshah 15y agoSquare seems to do ok ($2Bn valuation) not owning square.com (their domain is http://squareup.com http://squareup.com)
- staunch 15y agohttp://www.square.com/ http://www.square.com/ seems to go to Squareup.com now. They're probably working on acquiring it. My point is mostly just about the name though. Square is an amazing name. Imagine if they had been called Skware or Swipify? I think you're better off being called Square and having Squareup.com for a while than settling for Swipify.com. That is what Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Square, and many others have done. Bad: Poor name + poor domain. Good: Great name + poor domain. Best: Great name + great domain (Stripe).
- joelg87 15y agoI have to agree with this. We started out as bfffr (name and domain) and quickly changed to Buffer (domain bufferapp.com). It's tempting with things like Forrst and Dribbble around though :) (I still love both these startups)