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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. Wh
by 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 agoBut 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 agoOne factor is that future money is worth less.
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- byrneseyeview 17y agoYeah, 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 ago1 - 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.