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It looks like the .com (http://twitvid.com http://twitvid.com) belongs to someone else, does anyone else see this as a pretty big hurdle to adoption?

vaksel 17y ago
the problem is the name...even on techcrunch article they are branded as twitvid, not twitvid.io
- sharpshoot 17y ago
  On twitter the guys own twitter.com/twitvid owning @twitvid will also be super valuable to get ahead
  - ryanwaggoner 17y ago
    Actually, this raises a good point...they don't own @twitvid. What's to stop Twitter from taking it away and giving it to the Twitvid.com guys and reasoning that Twitvid.io should use @twitvideo? (yes, I'm aware that people don't own domain names, either)
    - sharpshoot 17y ago
      connections - this is the yc mafia
pg 17y ago
It seems like it's not the end of the world. Dropbox doesn't have dropbox.com, and they're doing well. It's a constant annoyance, but it doesn't kill you. What kills you is making something users don't like. As long as you make something users like, you can survive domain name problems.
- shabda 17y ago
  But its a constant annoyance which is going to stay for ever. Why not choose a different name? (Or buy the domain, before launching, its going to cost more, the more successful you become.)
  - bdr 17y ago
    One factor is that future money is worth less.
  - deleted 17y ago
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  - byrneseyeview 17y ago
    Yeah, I heard about this one guy who dropped out of Harvard to run a company even though he didn't own the companyname.com: http://web.archive.org/web/20050318022700/http://facebook.com/(from http://web.archive.org/web/20050318022700/http://facebook.co... when the company had just raised $13M).
- netsp 17y ago
  1 - Dropbox.com is obviously not dropbox mistaken users will go to Google. 2 - Dropbox isn't really a site. It's more something you install on your machine. I use dropbox and I don't remember knowing that it isn't on dropbox.com 3 - It probably still costs dropbox something.
colinplamondon 17y ago
Shit, that seems pretty brainless. TwitCam, TwitSee, TwitSight, TwitEye, Twitwhateverthehellbutfortheloveofchristownyourdomainsdotcom. Great way to funnel traffic to the wrong url, everything they do in marketing will send traffic to TwitVid.com, their competitor.

vaksel 17y ago

the problem is the name...even on techcrunch article they are branded as twitvid, not twitvid.io

sharpshoot 17y ago
On twitter the guys own twitter.com/twitvid owning @twitvid will also be super valuable to get ahead
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  Actually, this raises a good point...they don't own @twitvid. What's to stop Twitter from taking it away and giving it to the Twitvid.com guys and reasoning that Twitvid.io should use @twitvideo? (yes, I'm aware that people don't own domain names, either)
  - sharpshoot 17y ago
    connections - this is the yc mafia

pg 17y ago

It seems like it's not the end of the world. Dropbox doesn't have dropbox.com, and they're doing well. It's a constant annoyance, but it doesn't kill you. What kills you is making something users don't like. As long as you make something users like, you can survive domain name problems.

shabda 17y ago
But its a constant annoyance which is going to stay for ever. Why not choose a different name? (Or buy the domain, before launching, its going to cost more, the more successful you become.)
- bdr 17y ago
  One factor is that future money is worth less.
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]
- byrneseyeview 17y ago
  Yeah, I heard about this one guy who dropped out of Harvard to run a company even though he didn't own the companyname.com: http://web.archive.org/web/20050318022700/http://facebook.com/(from http://web.archive.org/web/20050318022700/http://facebook.co... when the company had just raised $13M).
netsp 17y ago
1 - Dropbox.com is obviously not dropbox mistaken users will go to Google. 2 - Dropbox isn't really a site. It's more something you install on your machine. I use dropbox and I don't remember knowing that it isn't on dropbox.com 3 - It probably still costs dropbox something.

colinplamondon 17y ago

Shit, that seems pretty brainless. TwitCam, TwitSee, TwitSight, TwitEye, Twitwhateverthehellbutfortheloveofchristownyourdomainsdotcom. Great way to funnel traffic to the wrong url, everything they do in marketing will send traffic to TwitVid.com, their competitor.