I agree about the importance of having a .com domain, but it's still rather unfortunate, since I can only presume it's the primary cause of all the obnoxious no

I agree about the importance of having a .com domain, but it's still rather unfortunate, since I can only presume it's the primary cause of all the obnoxious nonsense-words we see as Web 2.0 company names. Flickr, digg, reddit, pownce, frappr, tumblr spring to mind as a few high-profile example.