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Re:Would you buy an expensive domain name? by Xichekolas on Friday April 27, 2007 @02:45PM (#17492)
No... crazy names are Web 2.0ish anyway... so just think of a weird way to spell it, or make up a word. Both those strategies worked out fine for Yahoo and Google.

Closer to home, I imagine this was the strategy employed by Loopt and scribd too.

Re:Would you buy an expensive domain name? by Tichy on Friday April 27, 2007 @03:31PM (#17518)
What do you think of them, though? I don't really like them, but perhaps it just takes some getting used to. Google and Yahoo are different, because I don't even now the words they are derived from. But the others - it's weird that those misspellings will probably become normal words if the startup is really successful. Perhaps they'll even replace the correctly spelled words.

Then again, if the exist strategy is getting bought by Google or Yahoo, perhaps the name doesn't matter much - it can be changed after the acquisition anyway (ie scripts.google.com).