Hey, what's your new site?
grin it, check it out.
Grabs smartphone, types in grinit.com, nope nothing, grin.it, nope nothing. done.
Keep and understand the distinction between a bad PRODUCT and piss poor marketing.
The first part of the conversation would go more like this:
Hey, what's your new site?
grinnit with two n's. So grinn dot it.
However, there is definitely a problem when a search for "grin it" on google doesn't find your site. Moreover when a search for "grin it photos" or "grinit photos" is also unsuccessful. That's definitely a problem. If the spelling of your website isn't immediately obvious (a la reddit), you just need to ensure that users can still find your site.
I don't think it's a horrible name. Seeing it in print makes it instantly memorable which is always helpful, they just needed some additional work on seo for the typos of their name. Calling it "piss poor marketing" is disingenuous and unnecessarily inflammatory.
Look, Being an entrepreneur is not about lining up your ducks 100%, but it is about getting each element of your project as close to "pretty damn good" as possible. Don't let something as important as brand slip to the side guys. It IS important.
We were going to call it http://trololololololololololo.com/ but that was already taken.
Wish you were there when we were working on the backup name, sounds like you would have been very helpful
Is this how you take feedback? Someone has taken time out to give you a sensible feedback and you call him/her a troll?
Maybe it sounded a bit harsh, but c'mmon.
It says a lot about you Mr Kennedy.
HOWEVER, name / domain was not at all the root cause of what we decided was ultimately the reason to stop pursuing this endeavor.