{"id":889,"date":"2010-09-16T02:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-03-30T00:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:09:32","slug":"my-rule-is-something-you-can-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/my-rule-is-something-you-can-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Rule Is Something You Can Spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 6px;\" title=\"jason-calacanis-steve-huffman-twist-76\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/media\/jason-calacanis-steve-huffman-twist-76.jpg\" alt=\"jason-calacanis-steve-huffman-twist-76\" width=\"632\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Calacanis &amp; Steve Huffman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Steve Huffman on Crunchbase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/steve-huffman\">Steve Huffman<\/a>, co-founder of <a title=\"Reddit \" href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a> and <a title=\"Hipmunk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hipmunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hipmunk<\/a> was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with <a title=\"Jason Calacanis on Crunchbase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/jason-calacanis\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Calacanis<\/a>. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discuss their minimal criteria for choosing a domain. Funny that but for the random passing of a S. American tourist, Reddit might have ended up being called Read.ly or something worse. This is a great episode where Steve tells the story of how Reddit got made, and then sold. He was 22 when he and a co-founder sold Reddit to Conde Naste for a rumored $25M. You can check out the entire episode, with show notes, <a title=\"This Week In Startups 76 With Steve Huffman\" href=\"http:\/\/thisweekin.com\/thisweekin-startups\/this-week-in-startups-76-with-steve-huffman\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Click arrow to play audio clip) Steve Huffman <a class=\"wpaudio\" title=\"Something-You-Could-Spell-Steve-Huffman-Jason-Calacanis.mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/domainnoob.com\/media\/Something-You-Can-Spell-Steve-Huffman-Jason-Calacanis.mp3\">My rule is something you can spell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discuss their minimal criteria for choosing a domain. Funny that but for the random passing of a S. American tourist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/my-rule-is-something-you-can-spell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Rule Is Something You Can Spell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,506,127],"tags":[232,307,549,321,85,319,318,87],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-domain-stories","category-domains-are-brands-domaining","tag-domain-names","tag-domain-sales","tag-domaining","tag-hipmunk","tag-jason-calacanis","tag-reddit","tag-steve-huffman","tag-this-week-in-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}