Comments on: The Love Affair With Short / Brandable Domain Names

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:30:27 +0000

This is a great post. I have a bunch of brandable, short domain names left at http://www.comcloset.com.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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By: Sam Ng~

Sam Ng~ — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:35:05 +0000

Again, u shouldn’t compare flickr with some really meaningless, hard-remember, hard-pronounce names.
But i understand the problem some less funded startups r facing. Maybe we have to accept some nonsense names appear more.

By: Mickie Kennedy

Mickie Kennedy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:24:05 +0000

Despite the hard to spell issue, I think these sites represent a strong trend that shows creativity works. Flickr. Genius. Has worked well … but would Flicker.com have worked as well. Not sure. Would it have given it an advantage? Hard to say. Some, including myself, might say the clever spelling of Flickr was part of its viral identity. I found this site. It’s domain is different. It’s new, exciting, etc.

By: Adam BG

Adam BG — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:23:30 +0000

All those companies (1) started at a low budget, and (2) all are Internet based.
You probably know that it’s impossible to get a decent .com domain name today as basically everything has been registered already, mostly by speculators whos aim is to make large profit from domain realestate.
It is much easier to take a gibberish word, which also available in the .com, and brand it.

By: Sam Ng~

Sam Ng~ — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:41:43 +0000

Those short domains that u gave here are different from the domains criticised by dailyblogtips.
These domains here are reasonably rememberable/pronouncable, some are even quite kool like josst. but the domains mentioned over there i think quite bad.

By: Owen Frager

Owen Frager — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:21:49 +0000

Ihave to agree with naysayers. These words will be hard to remember and spell,
difficult for voice recognition bots, avoided by media for fear of
embarrassment
by mispronounce and take a lot of advertising and marketing expense before
anyone trusts them. At least amazon was a word and ebay is easy to spell and
relates to the equity in the bay area city slang where they are based.
Brandables and short phrases can be good but they must also pass the dictionary
test as well as the international extendable test as we live in a Global
market.
When your brand gets stopped at the spellcheck, it’s a bad sign.

Amazon, iTunes and eBay are good examples of short brandables. Something like
Vehix.com which has spent seven years and tens of millions of dollars only to
still be heard as “bx.com” when the back is turned to the screen during
commercial, is a bad choice.

By: Ritz

Ritz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:40:59 +0000

hi, you are right!

I came across DomainNameDollarStore.com recently.
Had a good laugh and just for fun, I hand registered Jubool.com 2 days ago.

I am agreeably surprised by the traffic it has received so far.
(fuelled by the funny Video I guess!)

but I also think that meaningful domain names have great potential. Specially when they are, for example, sentences we use in our everyday conversations.
do you fancy…

the best curry in the world.com ?

Regards,

By: Stuart McIlreavy

Stuart McIlreavy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:33:01 +0000

I just picked up fwackoo.com for a steal too.

I think next will be pickledonkeyknife.com