Just like old times.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141421/http://blog.delic...

>> "So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends. Of course the old del.icio.us domain and all its URLs will continue to work. Also note that the domain change requires a new login cookie, which is why everyone has to log in again."

Also: interview with Joshua Schachter on the Web Masters podcast. One of those rare podcasts where every episode is worth listening to.

https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schach...

Delicious is one of those words I have a hard time spelling, let alone remembering where the dots would go.

I wonder if the parent was being sarcastic. I could never remember where the dots went; I suspect I wasn't the only one, and that was probably why they end up changing to delicious.com.

Hi Joshua, when you are here, why did you choose that name, with the dots?

Almost certainly a cheap(er) way to get a cool domain on a startup budget.

when i registered icio.us in 2001 or so, Doing Startups wasn’t a thing. i got it because “icious” suffixed the largest number of words