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It's a new blogging platform that helps people build audiences. Our oldest users (1 year) have seen roughly 100% increase in daily traffic, twice as many comments, etc. My personal blog has doubled daily visitors and growth rate for subscribers went from 1% to 10%.

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On a very off topic, how much do you have to pay for a four letter domain like yours and whats the process like. Did you use something like sedo/godaddy? I've always wondered how difficult is it to acquire one.

I bought a 4-letter domain (edofo.com) on Namecheap for the standard .com price but now don't know what to do with it. It just sounded like a good company/product name.

That's 5 letters?

I forget exactly what we paid, but it was ~$7500, I think. Expensive, but we figured that it would build some trust and wouldn't be an embarrassing domain to have in your blog title (sett.com/alec vs superblog9000.com/alec). I think we bought it through Sedo, where prices vary wildly.

In searching, we also found this seller on ebay (no affiliation) that had a bunch pretty cheaply. I sort of liked omot.com, but not enough to buy. http://stores.ebay.com/Short-Domains/LLLL-com-4-Letter-dot-c...

Thank you for your answer. For sedo, is there some strategy or did you just pay what they asked for?

Can I just use sett to syndicate my Wordpress blog posts, the way I'm currently doing with DZone, JCG (as an affiliate) or StumbleUpon, GetPrismatic, Tech.Pro (manually)?

Or is sett intended to compete with (hosted) Wordpress directly?

It's intended to compete directly with hosted Wordpress. You can import directly from Wordpress XML, too.

Hmm, that's gonna be tough. I find the Wordpress+GetPrismatic or even Disqus kind of combination quite competitive to get traffic, and in a tech area, as I said, there are lots of great syndicators. I agree that your USP is subtly better though. Are you already profitable?

Also, why did you call it Sett? The metaphor isn't very obvious from your website.

And you should think of a better headline. Here's a good article: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/ultimate-home-page-headline/

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