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    Quote Originally Posted by Kamloops View Post
    Personally I think YP sounds stupid. Not a good choice at all.

    It sounds like Why Pee?
    Nintindo was similarily criticized when they released the WII that sounds like "wee" ... and yet they've sold many millions of units.

    A more pressing problem with short acronyms, especially two letter and less, is they often lack any meaning to most people with some rare exceptions.

    I know of numerous companies that have tried rebranding (as opposed to just redirection use only) themselves with a two or three letter acronym and later drop that idea in favor of a longer name that people better recognize.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobDiGiTaL View Post
    wouldn't yellow.com be better ?
    I would like to know the details of this deal.
    Whom contacted whom?
    were there negotiations?
    who is the seller?
    Interesting.
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    Great sale
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    makes sense for the buyer but seller did very well it seems on this one.
    Last edited by intellect; 12-31-2008 at 02:24 AM.

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    Great sale and their yp.ca will compliment it well!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobDiGiTaL View Post
    wouldn't yellow.com be better ?
    I would like to know the details of this deal.
    Whom contacted whom?
    were there negotiations?
    who is the seller?
    My thoughts exactly. Yellow.com, far better imo. Great sale but they should have bought Yellow.com (do they already own it?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Creature View Post
    Yellow.com, far better imo. Great sale but they should have bought Yellow.com (do they already own it?)
    there you go www.yellow.com

    btw, unfortunately they cant get 'y.com' when icann release single letter .coms, as yahoo have already tm'ed 'y.com'

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    Crisis? Not in domain industry

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    by purchasing yp.com, they can use it to re-brand yellow pages and soon all those typos will be worthless

    that's how you spend money to make money
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    Quote Originally Posted by biggedon View Post
    by purchasing yp.com, they can use it to re-brand yellow pages and soon all those typos will be worthless

    that's how you spend money to make money
    Absolutely.

    Just a drop in the bucket of their advertising budget I'm sure.
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    This should elevate the value of all other LL.coms.

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    A similar company (might actually be the same one) uses Yell.com for the UK, I think that's better than YP.com personally, it has meaning as well as being a shortened version of 'Yellow Pages'.

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    can't get much shorter than that. business related acronym jackpot...
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    Quote Originally Posted by PRED View Post
    there you go www.yellow.com

    btw, unfortunately they cant get 'y.com' when icann release single letter .coms, as yahoo have already tm'ed 'y.com'
    Marchex owns yellow.com

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    Incredible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steen View Post
    Marchex owns yellow.com
    thanks for pointing that out.

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    Yeah, amazing sale!
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    Superb LL.com sale. Great buy for YellowPages.

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    YellowPages.com could have gotten this domain for much cheaper price if they did not reveal their identity during the negotiation
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    Quote Originally Posted by acesfull View Post
    This should elevate the value of all other LL.coms.
    net necessarily

    dont forget the sellers were losing a website and business not just a domain
    the fact yellowpages were only after domain doesnt matter. they of course get the value of the traffic and links too as was related

    its a good sale and hopefully should get some publicity , after all when everything else is bombing, big domain sales are still happening. wish the media would latch onto this more

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