So for anyone questioning the value of VC’s, here’s a late night post with an exquisite freebie. Were you looking for a fail-safe name for your new 2.0 venture? Look no further:
$whois tupointo.com
$No match for "TUPOINTO.COM".
Yes, ladies and gents, two point oh dot com is actually free. You’ll get invited by every VC on the planet with a company called that. Btw, weird domain names like the above make me yearn for the return of the wonderful domain name of the week service that died sometime in 2005.
Quod erat demonstrandum, or as they say in Britain: pudding. ^^
Credits to the 2.0 rockstar Danah Boyd for pointing out the absurdities of Davos and causing yet another random post on this blog.
P.S. If you are one of those bores that are of the persuasion that 2.0 is dead and it’s all about 3.0 - you might be right. Threepointo.com was registered by Richard Harris of Travelocity in 2006. Didn’t you suspect that the Travelocity guys were all about the future when they put Sabres into their name? I bet Mr Harris is a Jedi. Hmmm, jedis… </geek>
One Comment
I bet you just want some of your competitors to use that name and lose half of their type in traffic to grabbers that own
2point0.com
2pointO.com
twopoint0.com
…
:-)