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**Domagon** · 12-30-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Kamloops

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.

Ron

**Chappy** · 12-30-2008, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobDiGiTaL

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.

**mart1n19** · 12-30-2008, 02:37 PM

Great sale
Congrats to Seller!

**intellect** · 12-30-2008, 03:44 PM

makes sense for the buyer but seller did very well it seems on this one.

**liberator** · 12-30-2008, 03:45 PM

Great sale and their yp.ca will compliment it well!!

**Creature** · 12-30-2008, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobDiGiTaL

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?)

Vijaya gave details above: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081229/live10-k.html

**PRED** · 12-30-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Creature

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'

**Carter** · 12-30-2008, 05:54 PM

Crisis? Not in domain industry

**biggedon** · 12-30-2008, 07:01 PM

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

**south** · 12-30-2008, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggedon

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.

**acesfull** · 12-30-2008, 08:21 PM

This should elevate the value of all other LL.coms.

**Ginge** · 12-30-2008, 08:30 PM

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'.

**HuntingMoon** · 12-31-2008, 02:14 AM

can't get much shorter than that. business related acronym jackpot...

**Steen** · 12-31-2008, 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PRED

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

**exponent** · 12-31-2008, 03:05 AM

Incredible.

**intellect** · 12-31-2008, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steen

Marchex owns yellow.com

thanks for pointing that out.

**Ownager** · 12-31-2008, 04:51 AM

Yeah, amazing sale!

**Biggs101** · 12-31-2008, 05:29 AM

Superb LL.com sale. Great buy for YellowPages.

**allanh** · 12-31-2008, 05:50 AM

YellowPages.com could have gotten this domain for much cheaper price if they did not reveal their identity during the negotiation

**PRED** · 12-31-2008, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acesfull

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

12-30-2008, 02:37 PM	#23 (permalink)
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12-30-2008, 03:44 PM	#24 (permalink)
intellect Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 10-28-2009 02:56 AM iTrader: (6) Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 229 DNF$: 106 Location: Online Country:	makes sense for the buyer but seller did very well it seems on this one. Last edited by intellect; 12-31-2008 at 03:24 AM..

12-30-2008, 03:45 PM	#25 (permalink)
liberator Platinum Lifetime Member Name: Jason Last Online: Yesterday 08:37 PM iTrader: (12) Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 529 DNF$: 257 Location: Canada Country:	Great sale and their yp.ca will compliment it well!! __________________ Gorillas.ca - Lions.ca - Swans.ca PM me for .CA Drop Catching Services (Include Price & Names)

12-30-2008, 07:01 PM	#29 (permalink)
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12-31-2008, 02:14 AM	#33 (permalink)
HuntingMoon Name: Evan Last Online: Yesterday 06:24 AM iTrader: (27) Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,219 DNF$: 3,282 Location: Bay Area Country:	can't get much shorter than that. business related acronym jackpot... __________________ HuntingMoon PDDW.COM_Essociate Join Our Mailer!__ Find Drops

12-30-2008, 05:54 PM	#28 (permalink)
Carter Success Is My Only Option Last Online: 11-06-2009 11:14 AM iTrader: (43) Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4,229 DNF$: 27,095 Location: Italy Country:	Crisis? Not in domain industry

12-30-2008, 08:21 PM	#31 (permalink)
acesfull Last Online: 11-03-2009 09:27 PM iTrader: (33) Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 733 DNF$: 2,693 Location: Birmingham	This should elevate the value of all other LL.coms.

12-30-2008, 08:30 PM	#32 (permalink)
Ginge DNF Regular Last Online: 11-04-2009 03:45 AM iTrader: (47) Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 661 DNF$: 796 Location: Manchester UK Country:	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'.

12-31-2008, 03:05 AM	#35 (permalink)
exponent Platinum Lifetime Member Name: Keyser Söze Last Online: 09-02-2009 11:56 PM iTrader: (8) Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 326 DNF$: 240 Location: United States Country:	Incredible.

12-31-2008, 04:51 AM	#37 (permalink)
Ownager Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 03-23-2009 11:27 AM iTrader: (1) Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 126 DNF$: 100	Yeah, amazing sale! __________________ http://www.youshare.com - Free File Hosting

12-31-2008, 05:29 AM	#38 (permalink)
Biggs101 Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 11-05-2009 06:46 PM iTrader: (9) Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 630 DNF$: 191 Location: Switzerland	Superb LL.com sale. Great buy for YellowPages. __________________ For sale for the 1st time: DVDDrive.com & DVDDrives.com - PM offers

12-31-2008, 05:50 AM	#39 (permalink)
allanh Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 10-26-2009 12:53 AM iTrader: (4) Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 500 DNF$: 0 Location: Australia Country:	YellowPages.com could have gotten this domain for much cheaper price if they did not reveal their identity during the negotiation __________________ For all City Hunter info - CityHunter.com My domains for sale -TaiwanDomainers.com Looking for soulmates? Look here

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