Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by pyre on Monday December 07, 2009 @04:31PM
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You're missing the fact that most people use Google as their 'location bar' and not the actual location bar. People literally do a Google search on Yahoo.com to get to Yahoo's site.
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by eli on Monday December 07, 2009 @10:15PM
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And in Chrome they're the same thing
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by mlinsey on Monday December 07, 2009 @11:06PM
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Folks who search for the term "yahoo" at google.com to get to yahoo probably don't use Chrome.
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by FreeRadical on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @05:52AM
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Also in IE7 (maybe IE7 onwards)
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by aditya on Monday December 07, 2009 @02:47PM
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It worked for a while for dropbox :)
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by potatolicious on Monday December 07, 2009 @03:50PM
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That was a great recovery for dropbox - but note that at the end of the day they still needed dropbox.com. This isn't to say that you can't succeed despite a crappy domain name, but rather that when you haven't even locked down your brand yet, why commit to something that you can't secure the domain for?
Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11
by BigDamnDeal on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:43PM
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Seriously! I know this moron who named his site Facebook but hosted it at thefacebook.com!
If I go to joojoo.com and don't find what I'm looking for, there's not a chance in hell I'm going to start iterating through other possibilities. I'm either going to hit up Google or give up.