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People are trusting us with their finances and TryDave just didn't seem to give me the same confidence as Dave.com

challenges: #trust #authority #consistency

Source: Namepros

Jason Wilk
Co-founder, CEO
Company: Dave
Domain name: Dave.com

I knew it was really bad when I went to TV for the first time in my life and all the anchor could focus on was how bad the name Dapulse was.

challenges: #memorability #spelling #trust

Source: Monday.com

Joel Goldstein
Marketing Lead
Company: Monday
Domain name: Monday.com

We understood that many people thought our site was already Punchbowl.com even though at the time it was MyPunchbowl.com.

challenges: #confusion #consistency #security

Source: Namepros

Matt Douglas
CEO
Company: PunchBowl
Domain name: PunchBowl.com

.com domains are the most well-known worldwide and we wanted to be global from the beginning, so there was no option of choosing a .com

challenges: #expansion #limiting

Source: Namepros

Daniel Sánchez
CEO
Company: Influencity
Domain name: Influencity.com

The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness.

challenges: #trust #authority

Source: PaulGraham.com

Paul Graham
Entrepreneur, VC, Co-founder
Y Combinator

We first bought the Teylor.de domain because in the first year we had a sole focus on the German market. Soon after we also bought the .com domain, as we knew our future lies in being an international company.

challenges: #expansion #vision #growth

Source: SmartBranding.com

Patrick Stäuble
CEO
Company: Teylor
Domain name: Teylor.com

We are a consumer brand, so name recognition matters. We wanted people to take us seriously, and outside of the startup community users still look to “.com” as a sign of trust and credibility.

challenges: #trust #credibility #authority

Source: SmartBranding.com

Joshua Wöhle
CEO
Company: Mindstone
Domain name: Mindstone.com

Standing out just gets harder when people confuse you with other companies.

challenges: #confusion #fragmentation

Source: Entrepreneur.com

Noah Kagan
Co-founder
Company: Sumo
Domain name: Sumo.com

TreatADog.com was a fine name, but it was long, and not always easy to remember. End-user recall of the name was an issue.

challenges: #confusion #memorability

Source: MediaOptions.com

David Gimes
Founder
Company: Paw
Domain name: Paw.com

We launched dropbox basically and all these confused people started going to dropbox.com trying to get to the dropbox beta.

challenges: #confusion #fragmentation

Source: SmartBranding.com

Drew Houston
Founder
Company: Dropbox
Domain name: Dropbox.com

Securing the stoggles.com domain was a hugely important step for our business. We’ve had wearstoggles.com, which just doesn’t hold the same brand power.

challenges: #trust #authority

Source: SmartBranding.com

Max Greenberg
CEO
Company: Stoggles
Domain name: Stoggles.com

We needed a name that would be understood and easy to remember. It was very important for us to have a simple brand that has the ability to be recognized and understood globally.

challenges: #simplicity #expansion #memorability

Source: Namepros

Gregory R. Lettieri
Co-founder
Company: Recycle Track Systems
Domain name: RTS.com

(Our) original domain name is not easy to understand for players from countries other than China. Therefore, we found it necessary to adjust it.

challenges: #growth #expansion #confusion

Source: Namepros

37Games
Team
Company: 37Games
Domain name: 37.com

We saw our customers confusing us with some of the other companies in the industry, and wanted to remedy that issue. Our service is so different and unique in comparison with the competition that these confusions might cost us a lot of opportunities.

challenges: #confusion #authenticity #competition

Source: Namepros

Oliver Dlouhy
CEO
Company: Kiwi
Domain name: Kiwi.com

Our domain name was initially CHILI.tv but we changed to CHILI.com in order to become more international and to emphasize our presence on all devices.

challenges: #confusion #limiting #vision #expansion

Source: SmartBranding.com

Giorgio Tacchia
CEO
Company: CHILI
Domain name: CHILI.com

(The entire team's) main concern is the length of TuftandNeedle.com along with its difficulty to type. At thirteen characters and consisting of three words, their concerns were well founded.

challenges: #simplicity #confusion #spelling

Source: Namepros

Tuft & Needle
PR Department
Company: Tuft & Needle
Domain name: TN.com

As we continued to gain traction in the pet space, I realized that having “dog” in our name was potentially limiting us to dog products, but the pet space (and my aspirations) were much bigger than just dogs.

challenges: #limitations #vision #growth

Source: MediaOptions.com

David Gimes
Founder
Company: Paw
Domain name: Paw.com

DoorBot was an awesome name but not a name that you can build a long lasting meaningful business around.

challenges: #growth #expansion #vision #authority #trust

Source: Namepros

Jamie Siminoff
Founder
Company: Ring
Domain name: Ring.com

.com is by far the most identified top-level domain in the world and having that is good in helping to avoid having people ending up somewhere else when they are looking for your company.

challenges: #confusion #trust #vision

Source: SmartBranding.com

Thejo Kote
Founder, CEO
Company: Airbase
Domain name: Airbase.com

While Flipdish(.com) was taken, both Flipdish(.ie) and Flipdish(.co.uk) were available. We ran with these for a while but as soon as we started thinking internationally, we had a problem.

challenges: #expansion #memorability #trust #authority #consistency

Source: MU Interview

Conor McCarthy
CEO
Company: Flipdish
Domain name: Flipdish.com

While they would often find their way to .net, it was a poor experience and lowered the value of the company in the eyes of our biggest prospects.

challenges: #trust #authority #image

Source: NamePros

Jacob Smith
CMO
Company: Packet
Domain name: Packet.com

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Hi, my name is Tatiana. I have over 18 years of experience working with businesses on their brand and web presence. I know first hand the limitations and issues a business can suffer from when operating on an inferior domain name. That's where the inspiration for MarkUpgrade.com came from.

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You have arrived

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of . As the news spread amongst your partners, employees, and customers, your mobile is ringing for three days. You've got a huge number of calls, a mailbox full of messages and congrats. Everything is looking good but you need a bit of time, to process it all, to see the numbers.

It has now been six months and the numbers are in! 40% increase in direct traffic, then shortly after the number is 70%. Repeat customers have grown well over 200%. Who would have thought? Increased trust, word of mouth, no traffic leaks, an important immunity against another brand who may grab the domain, better SEO and more effective marketing campaigns. You didn't even realize you were missing on all of those before.

It's been a year now. You sit back and reflect, you've spent three months and a small fortune to acquire , and looking back you conclude, it was the best investment you have ever made.

I hope you enjoyed the journey. While the story is fictional, it is based on real people and real events, all of which are listed below.

Dresses.com
About 70% of traffic comes from the domain directly – we don’t have to purchase the keywords as much any longer. The domain name is pretty valuable in and of itself.

Tor Sweeney, Dresses.com
Invest.com
Overall, the reaction and feedback from all stakeholders has been very positive; it is simple and easy-to- remember, reflects our brand values and proposition very well.

Team at Invest.com
Pillows.com
We saw a big growth with our repeat customers. We had an average return of repeat customers of over 200% from where it originally was and that was definitely attributable to the brand. When you are Pacific Pillows, you can stumble across a bunch of pillow sites, but when you are Pillows.com, its pretty clear that there is only one Pillows.com

Craig Clark, Pillows.com
DataRecovery.com
We were spending around $10,000 per month on Google AdWords and other pay-per-click services, which wasn’t really a great investment. As soon as we acquired the domain name, we saw a significant increase in focused traffic, apparently from direct visitors.

Ben Carmitchel, CEO of DataRecovery.com
Sumo.com
Do you know how many companies have “Sumo” in their name? It’s a lot. You wouldn’t believe how many times someone has come up to me and said, “Oh, are you also like (completely unrelated to us) sumo?”. That’s why we went right to the source. There are many copycat Sumo names in the market but by owning Sumo.com we’re positioned as the original. We are the Sumo.com.

Noah Kagan, Sumo.com
User.com
My mobile was ringing for three days. We’ve got a huge number of calls from people sitting in and out of our business, my mailbox was full of messages and congrats. Our marketing team received many emails from our clients saying we’ve made something huge. We expected people will react somehow but no one thought it gonna be so positive and massive.

Greg Warzecha, User.com
Aura.com
Acquiring the aura.com domain is an investment in the Aura brand as we grow our business and build the best all-in-one digital protection platform for consumers.

Lark-Marie Anton, Brand Officer, Aura.com
Clothia.com
Having the right domain is very important, and having a short, unique name that resolves in a .com has been super helpful versus, I don’t know, modern-dresses-best-shop.com or something.

Elena Silenok,CEO of Clothia.com
Paw.com
Switching to Paw.com has had a tremendously positive impact on our company. First of all, as mentioned before, we no longer are limited to dog products. As “Paw.com” we have the opportunity to build a major pet industry brand, across a wide range of pets and products.

David Gimes, Founder of Paw.com
Magma.com
We want to reflect on the fact that we are so much more than a studio or just a tool to draw together, we're an inspiring platform where creatives meet, ideas are born, and amazing communities are created.

Team at Magma.com
Desktop.com
Having a strong keyword .com domain name brings a lot of inherent value, such as trust and a sense of being well-established, recognizable and not to mention web-based.

Rolf Larsen, CEO of Desktop.com
Exclusive.com
As the founder of the branded payment platform Recharge.com (500 million annual revenue), I know how to launch a worldwide fintech platform and how important it is to have a good domain name that is easy to remember.

Robin Weesie, Exclusive.com
Close.com
Beyond just the benefits of properly aligning our brand with the .com name, we knew that owning this domain would illustrate to future customers that we’re here to stay for the long haul.

Steli Efti, CEO of Close.com
Hive.com
We saw a 40% increase in traffic immediately after securing our preferred domain.

John Furneaux, Hive.com
Yought.com
Since Yought was a unique name, buying the .com was straightforward and was one reason we wanted to go with something unique. As a marketer, I understood having a .com presence would be beneficial in the long run, especially as a SaaS product.

Richard Liu, Founder of Yought.com
Paw.com
There’s a sense of trust and authority that comes with a great name like Paw.com, and that seems to give a positive boost to just about everything.

David Gimes,Founder of Paw.com
User.com
After acquiring user.com we noted 300% increase in traffic.

Tomasz Sawicki, CMO User.com
Mint.com
You will lose all word of mouth marketing if you don’t have a good name. Most people choose their name because the domain is available. That’s a really bad idea. I spent 3 months and $182,000 negotiating for Mint.com, and it was the best purchase I ever made.

Aaron Patzer, Mint.com
Rent.com
This is the company’s most significant evolution in a nearly 50-year history of serving the rental industry. This is much more than a name change. It is the outward signal of our evolution from an advertising company to a technology and software driven company.

Jon Ziglar, CEO, Rent.com
Teachable.com
We saw our conversion rate dramatically jump when we rebranded from usefedora.com to teachable.com.

Ankur Nagpal, Founder, Teachable.com
Stoggles.com
Operating through stoggles.com helps us to reach more people and follow our purpose of inspiring the importance of everyday eye protection through innovative and seamless design.

Max Greenberg - CEO - Stoggles.com
Chill.com
I am pleased to have completed the acquisition of the Chill.com domain name. We are the proud owners of a highly brandable, premium domain asset reflective of a word that is pervasive in the everyday lives of consumers and is easy to say, spell, and remember.

Callum Sommerton, CEO Chill.com
Ahead.com
After a few years of effort, we landed our dream web address of Ahead.com, replacing ThinkAhead.com. Our name finally matches our domain!

Team at Ahead.com
Cal.com
Our plan is to build a strong, memorable brand. Cal.com is the kind of domain/brand name that achieves exactly that.

Bailey Pumfleet, Co-Founder Cal.com
Fleksy.com
Fleksy.com acts as a primary touch point between us and potential customers, our website is a representation of who we are and what Fleksy is all about.

Olivier Plante, CEO Fleksy.com
Autonomy.com
It was important to us to have a brand name that consumers could get to easily without having to come up with some clever derivative or other domain that’s close, but not really. Autonomy.com we think obviously handles that.

Scott Painter, Founder and CEO at Autonomy.com
Close.com
Now that we’ve reached a level of maturity and stability in the CRM space, we decided it was finally time to invest in acquiring the .com domain—in part to reconcile that disconnect between calling ourselves Close internally and “Close-dot-I-O” externally.

Steli Efti - CEO - Close.com
PX.com
We have seen better overall conversions and lower drop-off rates on our campaigns. For us, an important factor is that having a premium domain provides better access to big lead buyers and leading advertisers as well due to, again, the trust factor.

Frans van Hulle, PX.com
Perch.com
As a new brand, we think a ".com" domain gives us a boost in trust from a consumer who may not have heard a lot about Perch yet.

Phil DeGisi- Co-Founder at Perch.com
RTS.com
If we didn’t own RTS.com we probably would have changed the company's name. It was very important for us to have a simple brand that has the ability to be recognized and understood globally.

Greg Lettieri, CEO Recycle Track Systems
BookKeeping.com
We knew that our current marketing system would work exceptionally well with a domain as strong as BookKeeping.com. The purchase price has nearly been recouped in annualized revenues just two months from launch.

Brandon Littlefield, BookKeeping.com
Woven.com
We grow through word-of-mouth, through people tweeting about us and talking about us, so the address matters.

Tim Campos, CEO Woven.com
Print.com
Back in the day people used to abbreviate Drukwerkdeal.nl to Drukwerk.nl. Annoying! That won’t happen with this domain name!

Marco Aarnink, Founder Print.com
Fair.com
When selecting a domain name, I would tell any founder to think hard about the long term in the beginning. While there may be more upfront effort and financial investment, getting it right the first time will save you serious stress and headaches down the road.

Scott Painter, Founder, Fair.com
Mint.com
You will lose all word of mouth marketing if you don’t have a good name. Most people choose their name because the domain is available. That’s a really bad idea. I spent 3 months and $182,000 negotiating for Mint.com, and it was the best purchase I ever made.

Aaron Patzer, Mint.com
User.com
My mobile was ringing for three days. We’ve got a huge number of calls from people sitting in and out of our business, my mailbox was full of messages and congrats. Our marketing team received many emails from our clients saying we’ve made something huge. We expected people will react somehow but no one thought it gonna be so positive and massive.

TGreg Warzecha, User.com

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