Some country code extensions are popular in their own countries and some others have had niche success such as .tv for video and .me and .ly for social media, and of course .org is still the go-to extension for non-profit, but otherwise going with anything other than a .com for a startup generally winds up in an uphill battle for relevance just to save a few early bucks.
Try out a historical hacienda ( www.haciendapinsaqui.com), a private villa (www.4volcanoes.com) or, for a more budget option, a rustic room in the sleepy town of Peguche (www.ayahuma.com).
Under current rules, anyone can register a .com domain name and set up a Web site of any kind.
Diller was asked by an audience member if he thought Grouspawn.com was a Match.com killer (the huge dating site which IAC owns).
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AOL, if it proves that a dot-com can buy a brick-and-mortar company and not suffer a share wipeout, might be the catalyst.
My attention was caught yesterday by a Time.com post about a new study about differences in how men and women use social media.
"Staying on top of soft skills such as critical thinking and time management while maintaining expertise in hard skills such as widely-used software programs provides candidates and employees with a necessary edge, " says Christian Idiodi, director of CBInstitute.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com that offers online courses and certifications.
Nguyen Thanh Van An, 37, is the chief executive and founder of Internet bookstore Vinabook.com, a clone of China's online bookseller Dangdang.com--itself a version of Amazon.
No longer will they have to search to see if a .com is available.
Facebook has acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com, according to a Face.com blog post.
Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.
Obviously, at the end of that eight years, we know that there was a .com bubble that hurt our economy.
This was in 1999, when it was a challenge to get big processors to handle transactions for a dot com startup.
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If web users want to have access to a site with a .com or .net address, their requests are handled by the existing infrastructure.
Ariel Adams (also a Forbes.com contributor) wrote a month ago on A Blog To Watch about what an iWatch will be like, from the point of view of the high-end watch industry.
The company also owns and operates its own gaming platform, a group buying service called Nuomi, a video sharing site called 56.com and a professional networking site similar to LinkedIn called jingwei.com.
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Both DealPilot.com, a German company, and RuSure.com, based in Israel, equip users with a piece of software that automatically informs them of the best available prices on the products they are looking for.
Paul and I gave our dueling takes at a Forbes.com marketing summit in Cancun a few days ago.
Yet buying an airline ticket from Expedia does not yet prompt offers to shop for a budget hotel room at Hotels.com, still less a companion, from Match.com, with whom to share the bed.
Onink is a contributor to Forbes.com and a respected expert in the field of College Planning.
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Levie also launched a site called socalendar.com, a directory of events in the L.A. area.
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Meanwhile, Match.com now offers a "Chemistry.com" service, supposedly based on the science of brain chemistry.
Take a look at ChefHangout.com, a company whose entire business model is to use Google Hangouts to sell cooking classes online.
But he has just set up his own Internet company, disabilitycity.com, a kind of Amazon.com for the physically handicapped in suburban Chicago.
Hill, a member of ValueForum.com, a subscription stock-picking community of 1, 500 members.
Career experts and a spokesperson for Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career community where people share information and opinions about their workplaces, weigh in.
In particular, a site called livingto100.com provides a personalized life expectancy calculation based on factors like your family history, gender, lifestyle, and current health.
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Justin Bieber has become the latest celebrity to enter the prepaid debit card market, inking a deal with BillMyParents.com on a new SpendSmart card aimed at teenagers.
Gold Rush: Should You Invest in Gold? was written by Sierra Black, a writer for SavingsAccounts.com, a website where you can research the best savings accounts and compare high yield cds.
In a bid to drum up publicity for a new book, Max turned to a website called SponsoredTweets.com, a service that allows advertisers to pay powerful Twitter users to run promotions for them.
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