Startups that use "the" or "get" to avoid premium domains
Facebook was "thefacebook.com" before it was "facebook.com." Groupon was "getgroupon.com" before it was "groupon.com". Likewise, Dropbox was "getdropbox.com" before it was "dropbox.com"
Something that's never discussed, though: wouldn't the original owners of "facebook.com", "groupon.com" and "dropbox.com" have seen that these companies were gaining traction, and raised the prices on these domains? I just don't get this.
If I owned facebook.com and I suddenly heard about a company called The Facebook that was getting hot as hell, I wouldn't leave the domain name up for the same price as before.
Hopefully this isn't too confusing for people to follow. I'm only asking because I want to start out on "the+insertcompanynamehere.com" and I'm worried that the "insertcompanynamehere.com" owner could respond to growth by hiking up the price of that domain. Anyone know anything about this or have any experience with this?
Something that's never discussed, though: wouldn't the original owners of "facebook.com", "groupon.com" and "dropbox.com" have seen that these companies were gaining traction, and raised the prices on these domains? I just don't get this.
If I owned facebook.com and I suddenly heard about a company called The Facebook that was getting hot as hell, I wouldn't leave the domain name up for the same price as before.
Hopefully this isn't too confusing for people to follow. I'm only asking because I want to start out on "the+insertcompanynamehere.com" and I'm worried that the "insertcompanynamehere.com" owner could respond to growth by hiking up the price of that domain. Anyone know anything about this or have any experience with this?