Comments on: Del.icio.us Rebrands as Delicious.com: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs

By: What is a Domain Name Hack?

What is a Domain Name Hack? — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:02:24 +0000

[...] they discovered that their brand recognition had increased the price considerably and regretted building their brand on a domain name hack. Bit.ly, the most popular domain name shortener in the world, launched using the country code (cc) [...]

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:46:48 +0000

Subdomains have never been popular anyway in America though I understand they are used more in other parts of the world. Splitting a domain name into three parts separated by two dots, i.e. del.icio.us, always looked like a bad branding decision.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:33:40 +0000

Typo traffic will never convert into sales. Much of the revenue generated are the users frantically clicking away at the link ads to * get away * from the typo page.

When I look up the traffic origination, many of these typo sites get the most traffic from the US. Too lazy to even use search or simply unaware of how the net works? can we assume the new generation who know their way around the internet are not part of the type-in traffic.

By: Domain Names - Use of hyphens

Domain Names - Use of hyphens — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:50:05 +0000

[...] this topic in the first place was DomainNameWire.com’s posting yesterday entitled, “Del.icio.us Rebrands as Delicious.com: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs“.Â Â Delicious (formerly known as Del.icio.us) intentionally used ‘dots’ to [...]

By: Del.icio.us cambia a Delicious.com

Del.icio.us cambia a Delicious.com — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:22:38 +0000

[...] mis sitios] Isabel VÃ¡zquez Del.icio.us cambia a Delicious.comDelicious.com es el dominio que Del.icio.us ha decidio utilizar como principal en lugar de este, que redirecciona ahora hacia el .com. Este dominio fue adquirido por la empresa (parte de Yahoo) [...]

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:09:32 +0000

Andrew,

Another fantastic domain industry news article. Every single report of a company understanding the value of a domain name for marketing their website and prodserv is another inch we domainers move upward in our crawl towards total recognition in the traditional business sector.

Excellent report. I hate you.

your buddy,

Stephen Douglas
Successclick.com

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:35:08 +0000

Patricia, $100k according to a comment a year ago @ http://www.mappingtheweb.com/2007/05/03/flickercom-for-sale/