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Steam.com was for the longest time unrelated to Valve, which is why you'll find Steam under steampowered.com instead.
by hhjinks 2mo ago
Steam.com was for the longest time unrelated to Valve, which is why you'll find Steam under steampowered.com instead.
- flexagoon 2mo agoIt's still unrelated AFAIK. From what I remember, the owner refused to sell the domain, and then eventually asked Valve for a huge fee that they refused to pay. So now the domain is just unused.
- inigyou 2mo agoThat's what happens when you name your project after someone else's domain. A usual part of starting a project now is picking an unused domain name.
- dewey 2mo agoUsing a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford the clean .com domain...but not be famous enough that the buyer would want to get some crazy amount for it.
- account42 2mo agoI really wish using random dictionary words wouldn't be so popular.
- wincy 2mo agoOr if you’re worth a trillion dollars you just literally buy the domain chat.com for over $15 million
- gessha 2mo agoParking domains and not using them is poor taste. Finders keepers is okay compared to pay to win but if someone has a better use for the domain, maybe release it for a reasonable price?
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat incentivises the domain holder to do that? Under the UDRP, parking is only not allowed if it's obviously done to screw with someone's trademark, has no other purpose, and their trademark came first.
- gessha 2mo agoI’m thinking idealistically, not practically
- account42 2mo agoI really wish reselling would not be allowed at all by ICANN and could result in the domain being reclaimed from either the seller or buyer if discovered.
- Cthulhu_ 2mo agoI have a theory that's what happened to my company's rebrand, they now use a 4 lettered .com domain name. Not even a word, just an abbreviation.
- netruk44 2mo agoValve owns s.team now, as well. That’ll bring you to the store page It also acts as a url shortener for their hardware support pages. s.team/deck, and s.team/machine take you to the appropriate support pages.
- sejje 2mo agoI will never remember that, but I could instantly remember steam.com
- manytimesaway 2mo agoSteam used to be steamgames.com, too.