alt Hacker NewsThat's what happens when you name your project after someone else's domain. A usual part of starting a project now is picking an unused domain name.
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dewey • today at 10:18 AM
Using a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford the clean .com domain...but not be famous enough that the buyer would want to get some crazy amount for it.
Cthulhu_ • today at 2:15 PM
I have a theory that's what happened to my company's rebrand, they now use a 4 lettered .com domain name. Not even a word, just an abbreviation.
wincy • today at 1:26 PM
Or if you’re worth a trillion dollars you just literally buy the domain chat.com for over $15 million
Parking domains and not using them is poor taste. Finders keepers is okay compared to pay to win but if someone has a better use for the domain, maybe release it for a reasonable price?