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The case for shorter .com domains
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Re: The case for shorter .com domains
#12chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com made sense. Chatgpt.com to chat.com makes less sense IMO, for it's the "gpt" part that people know is associated with AI. They probably bought chat.com just to show off, they burn billions every month, so what's a few million (at most) for a domain?
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#13back to the world of generic-word.com like in the dotcom boom days.
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#14Registrars [like Namecheap] label short, original, distinctive domains [like the one you spent weeks, months brainstorming] as "premium" right at the moment of registration, even if they were available only days or weeks prior. Once these domains are marked as premium, they are sold at exorbitant prices, often far beyond their true market value. In essence, a registrar hijacks what would otherwise be a standard domain, inflating its value simply because it's easy to do so.
There's a sharp contrast when you work with, for instance, a Brazilian registrar, Registro.br, where all domains are treated equally.
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#15If that's true the x.com is brilliant. I think you can have to short, to generic domains for them to be actually useful/descriptive. For instance I think chatgpt.com is better branding that just chat.com.
Also tinycapital.com → tiny.com, capital.com works, but tiny.com doesn't really tell you anything.
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#16This is a timely article.. if it was 1998!
Re: The case for shorter .com domains
#17chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com made sense. Chatgpt.com to chat.com makes less sense IMO, for it's the "gpt" part that people know is associated with AI. They probably bought chat.com just to show off, they burn billions every month, so what's a few million (at most) for a domain?
I’ve a feeling or kinda read that Dharmesh did Shares instead of cash for chat.com
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#18“However fancy a domain is, every successful business, especially with an online presence, ends up with a .com, the right .com.”
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#19Still waiting on Microsoft to rebrand to Soft.
MCR.com
Re: The case for shorter .com domains
#20Who is still typing domains nowadays? You open your browser and (mis)type anything and get to the (almost) right site.
Who is still opening a browser nowadays?
You open ChatGPT and (mis)type anything and get the (almost) right information.