Comments on: What’s In A (Domain) Name? http://www.pcmech.com/article/whats-in-a-domain-name/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.pcmech.com/article/whats-in-a-domain-name/comment-page-1/#comment-7486 Andrew Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:03:12 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comment-7486 Downside to names such as del.icio.us is that users have to remember where to put the frakking dots. Del.icio.us is, thankfully, well-known enough that people remember. But imagine a billboard advertising, say, "spa.cio.us" (let's say for an apartment complex). When you got home, you'd have to remember whether it was "sp.acio.us," or "spa.cio.us," or something else. There's also the issue of non-dot-com names. Matt works well because it's only four letters. With a longer name, though, people would have to think too much. You've got to be careful when leaving the dot-com world, and figure that a good number of people will go to "matt.com" first. Me, I grabbed my last name early on so I could be firstname@lastname.com. :) Downside to names such as del.icio.us is that users have to remember where to put the frakking dots. Del.icio.us is, thankfully, well-known enough that people remember. But imagine a billboard advertising, say, “spa.cio.us” (let’s say for an apartment complex). When you got home, you’d have to remember whether it was “sp.acio.us,” or “spa.cio.us,” or something else.

There’s also the issue of non-dot-com names. Matt works well because it’s only four letters. With a longer name, though, people would have to think too much. You’ve got to be careful when leaving the dot-com world, and figure that a good number of people will go to “matt.com” first.

Me, I grabbed my last name early on so I could be firstname@lastname.com. :)

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