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jacquesm on Feb 9, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Would you trust a .me domain?

delicious changed their 'funny' name to delicious.com, the old one is simply a redirect now.

It may have helped them in the beginning but it seems that there must have been some detrimental side effects in the long term or I'm sure they would not have switched.

tsetse-fly on Feb 11, 2009 [–]

delicious changed their name after they were acquired by Yahoo!. This was in July 2008, five years after they launched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

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