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By: Not Owning Your Domain is Crazy. No, It’s a Crime. | CloudAve

Not Owning Your Domain is Crazy. No, It’s a Crime. | CloudAve — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:33:25 +0000

[...] have a choice: they should pick a name with available *.com name. Last year I picked on a few TechCrunch 50 presenters with the wrong [...]

By: Alain Raynaud

Alain Raynaud — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:58:04 +0000

In the spirit of FairSoftware, here’s what I offer you: if you find a better name than fairsoftware.net, which uses a “.com” domain, and we use it, we’ll give you shares in fairsoftware.

After all, our entire company is based on that premise: trade shares for work.

You’ll see that it’s not so easy. And once we decided to call our company XYZ Software, of course the “.com” was taken by a software company…

Our offer stands: find a better name, become a shareholder.

Alain.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:22:30 +0000

Alain,

Not just taken. Taken by another SOFTWARE COMPANY…

Thanks for coming over here

By: Alain Raynaud

Alain Raynaud — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:13:09 +0000

Hi,

I know that it’s confusing for people when you don’t own the “.com” version of your site. But we had the choice between an ugly or/and misspelled name as a “.com”, or a good name as a “.net”. We picked the latter.

Bottom line: all the good (and not so good) dot-com names are taken.

Alain.
CEO, FairSoftware .NET

By: Jens Begemann

Jens Begemann — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:47:55 +0000

I absolutely agree to your comments reg. start-up names -up names. The intentional misspelling of “Viisibility” will only drive potential customers to their competitors with one “i” (like everybody will type it).

On FairSoftware I also think they should change their name, but I really like their concept. It was one of my favorites from the first day of TechCrunch50 today:
http://www.begemann.org/techcrunch50-day-1/