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Re:Japanese volcano erupts on Sunday March 13, 2011 @02:19PM (#2319815)
Now only Godzilla is missing.
Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? on Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:26AM (#2174789)
Oh and btw, "for sale". Recently, I made a price request for some dot-com domain, which sounds kind of fun, has 6 characters, but is not even an english word. The price was $18500. Now image what roller.com would cost.
Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? on Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:15AM (#2174753)
Sure, it was just a placeholder for some weird name.

As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com?

Me and my co-founder never thought that one of the most difficult tasks in starting a project would be the choice of a domain name.As everyone knows, it is incredibly difficult to get a good .com name. Unbelievably difficult. The amount of names of new startups which all sound a little bit as dog names proves it. And the reason for this is obvious — everyone wants a short, pronounceable and a...

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