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It was a huge amount for us and we went through a broker for the process :) Still love our old http://min.us

Are you a non-profit startup? If you're not, did you (or your broker) claim that you were during the negotiations to get a better deal?

It is a great domain, and that feels like a good deal for a five letter, very common word .com. (though I'm sure it feels like a lot of money for a startup).

Congrats on the purchase. A good .com domain definitely enhances credibility outside of the startup world over a domain hack.

I wonder if anybody in the startup world is thinking of solving the domain problem. Eventually founders are going to get sick of dot com domain hacks but without ICANN cooperation I just don't see how this can change. There are only a limited number of quality domains that are variations of English words.

Agreed. We'll see how things go over the next few years :)

Thanks, the .com definitely helps lessen the confusion, as the name Min.us was getting misspelled especially when our users try to share/tell their friends about it.

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