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Re: Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com

#11

One thing is certain, you got a great domain name.

Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, and The Motley Fool have the advantage in this space.

Re: Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com

#12

One thing is certain, you got a great domain name.

Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, and The Motley Fool have the advantage in this space.

That's a moot point. When you have an AAA generic like markets.com you don't need to brand it; the whole sector is yours to own!

Well done on securing this very valuable name.

Re: Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com

#15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily. Perhaps it's easy to remember and it more easily found in search, but it's harder to build a brand around a generic name like markets.com. Bloomberg, The Street, and The Motley Fool have the advantage in this space.

That's a moot point. When you have an AAA generic like markets.com you don't need to brand it; the whole sector is yours to own! Well done on securing this very valuable name.

I'm sure the companies behind news.com, blogs.com, tickets.com, shoes.com, and most others with generic names would argue that it's not moot, that it's the exception and not the rule. You still have to make something people want, something they can't get elsewhere. markets.com doesn't seem to have that, at least not yet. It's hard to be unique in the news aggregation niche.

Re: Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com

#17
provide some value.

there doesn't really appear to be anything there that provides anything there that isn't already readily available in other places.

Aggregating market information is good, but there is so much out there that does it already that it'd be better to have even ONE thing that gives someone a unique reason to go to markets.com

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