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Interesting - curious how you feel about buying something like ww.guru and then buying the matching wwguru.com anyways to prevent brand confusion.
by joelrunyon 12y ago
Interesting - curious how you feel about buying something like ww.guru and then buying the matching wwguru.com anyways to prevent brand confusion.
- jacquesm 12y agoI'd just buy the .com and leave the rest unless I would be able to make a nice mnemonic. For me a domain is a requirement, just like hosting is a requirement. Camarades.com became an instant hit and it was very hard to spell. Google wasn't even a proper word before it was used as a brand (they miss-spelled googol) and now it is almost a verb. Facebook is an ugly juxtaposition of two otherwise unrelated words. If ww.guru is your thing and wwguru.com is free then for the $10 or so you really should just take it. But if the .com is taken just ignore it and find another one. In the end a domain is an identifier, it is the service behind it that matters most. So if you plan on starting an escrow service it helps if you can obtain escrow.com. But if you can't I would not worry about it, there are tons of options. I've yet to see a service succeed just on the strength of the domain, and I've seen plenty of services with great domains fail. A good domain can help but will not be the defining factor of a success.