Saturday, January 9, 2010
Salon has a super-interesting article on the business of naming companies. It’s long and detailed with lots of quotes from main players in the industry. It’s a huge industry and people are charging a lot of money to help companies find that just right name for their business. At the end of the day they’re [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
When you have a ‘great’ idea, one of the first-actions you can take is to register the best domains you can find to brand the idea.
Even if you don’t execute, the perfect domain name may turn out to have some value later when someone else discovers the idea and decides they want to build a [...]
Filed in Domains Are Brands, Project Domain Names
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Also tagged branding, branding domains, category killer, domain broker, domain noob, domainnoob.com, etip.com, hatpass.com, idea sites, itip.com, online tipjar, startup domain names, tip gadget, tipgadget.com, tipjar, tipjar.com
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Again from ThisWeekInStartups.com, the Jason Calacanis ustream.tv show. It’s a great show, and the experience of watching it live has turned out to be a little bit addictive. Check out #TWIST on Twitter. Jason is simply Twitter.com/Jason.
In this audio clip from ‘Jason’s Shark Tank’, Jason tells caller/developer Kevin, of pikk.com what he likes about what [...]
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Also tagged audio clip, domain broker, domain noob, Domaining, domains, four letter domain names, Jason Calacanis, pikk.com, startups, This Week In Startups, twist
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
I wasn’t the only one scratching his head when I read the TechCrunch story announcing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new, very cool, credit card reading startup. It’s called ‘Square’. But the domain is squareup.com. Here’s Elliot Silver’s take (links to full post)
TechCrunch reported today that Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, has launched a mobile payment [...]
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Also tagged domain broker, Domaining, domains, elliot silver, feedafever.com, fever, jack Dorsey, Shaun Inman, square, squareup.com
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
I’ve been listening to a LOT of startup related podcasts. Especially ThisWeekInStartups.com mentioned earlier and Andrew Warner’s Mixergy.com. I’ve pretty much spent the last month going over every one of Andrew’s podcasts. It’s surprising how many startups miss the boat on domains and how that can impact marketing efforts. I think this clip from [...]
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Also tagged adly.com, Andrew Warner, audio clip, Domaining, Entrepreneurship 101, GetGambit.com, Grasshopper.com, Mixergy, mp3, Noah Kagan, poleon.com, startups
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Kissing Gum, what a great way to tell someone you’re in the mood.
Domain is for sale or lease.
