Tangent but
> This seems weird as the domain was sold in 2014 for 6.8M USD, which would be around 8.9M USD today taking inflation into account.
Caught my attention, 30% inflation in just 9 years...
X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
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Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#12One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
i think this was true years ago, but now that the general public is internet aware, a billboard with B.com or Z.com would work just fine. In Asia they don't put the .com or .whatever on the ads, they just put the brand name and the general public know to search for that term.
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#13One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
> People just google “bob builder” anyway.
Today they do. When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s, people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering.
It’s odd to me tbh that phone numbers were solved with contact lists and address books, along with the occasional “new phone, who dis?”
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#14One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
Okay, but then one letter domains and new gTLDs are worthless. If the domain doesn't really matter why not then get bobbuilder365q.com (or some other TLD that's cheaper).
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#15One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
i think this was true years ago, but now that the general public is internet aware, a billboard with B.com or Z.com would work just fine. In Asia they don't put the .com or .whatever on the ads, they just put the brand name and the general public know to search for that term.
Maybe, I find that people are still surprised when they need my email and it's just @.net and not @hotmail.com / @gmail.com or something like that.
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
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Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
> People just google “bob builder” anyway. Today they do. When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s, people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering. It’s odd to me tbh that phone numbers were solved with contact lists and address books, along with the occasional “new pho…
> When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (with slashes!) to find whatever Bob the builder was offering
This was the case well into the 2000s, if I recall correctly, and even into the mid-late 2010s, when URL shorteners proliferated to manage the complicated URLs generated by Google Forms etc.
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
Okay, but then one letter domains and new gTLDs are worthless. If the domain doesn't really matter why not then get bobbuilder365q.com (or some other TLD that's cheaper).
I guess because if I sw that domain I would assume I was being phished.
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#19I don’t like the letter “x” being used as a company name, I find it impractical and confusing.
I’d like to call it something different, and since many people say “x/twitter”, I guess others have similar thoughts.
I’m not unhappy that there are few other single letter domains, especially if they were to be claimed by corporations.
Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
#20One letter domains has the same issue as many of the gTLDs, they aren't particularly useful in terms of brand recognition. X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Take bob.builders, it's a perfectly valid domain, but if you see it on the back of a van, even if it's www.bob.builders, it's not recognizably as a website. www.b.com has the exact same problem, even x.com / www.x.com is ju…
People just google “bob builder” anyway. Domain doesn’t matter so much.
And then your competitor advertises for "bob builder". And then you start whining about how mean google is, even though you were the one who decided to use google as a domain resolution service, which it was not intended for. There's a reason amazon decided to refer to itself as amazon.com until everyone got it, and that probably saves them billions in google ads per year.