Change Your Name
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Change Your Name
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#2100% of the top 20 by valuation have their .com
What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com
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#3Actually, paypal owns x.com, not Stripe. :)
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#4If your numbers are going up and to the right, what does it mean to "signal weakness" with your name?
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#5Exactly! This why I commended Casey Neistat for waiting to announce his startup name to the public until he secured the domain name.
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#6>Don't believe a domain is for sale unless the owner has already told you an asking price.
One of my favorite examples: http://nissan.com
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#7> "Whereas (as Stripe shows) having x.com signals strength even if it has no relation to what you do."
I would contest that it has no relation, I could be wrong since I have no knowledge. That said I always saw it as a relation to the cards themselves and the magnetic-strip on the back of the card.
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#8Actually, paypal owns x.com, not Stripe. :)
True, but x is a variable in this case.
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#9100% of the top 20 by valuation have their .com What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com
Cheaper still, would be to get a new name that has an available .com