Famous websites have changed domain names before 'being successful'

Domains like Google.com or Facebook.com . have become too familiar. However, few people know that before becoming famous like today, many big websites have brought strange and memorable domain names.

Google.com

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Before being known all over the world and the current No. 1 search engine, Google is actually just a sample product of two graduate students of Stanford, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

The two co-founders used Stanford's domain name to run their search engine. Google's first domain name is Google.Stanford.edu. Later, both registered Google.com domain names in September 1997 before officially launching search engines in 1998.

Show Google.Stanford.edu website will automatically switch to Stanford University's search site.

Facebook.com

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With more than 1 billion users, the Facebook.com domain has become so familiar. However, in the beginning, the founder Mark Zuckerberg chose for his social network TheFacebook.com domain name.

The domain name was based on Zuckerberg's acronym for a photo book published internally at Harvard University, with content including students' names and photos to help them get to know each other. In a change of design on this social network in August 2005, the development team decided to simplify the name by changing the website domain name to Facebook.com.

Reportedly, Facebook had to spend up to $ 200,000 to buy the domain name 'Facebook.com' because at that time it was owned by another person.

Currently TheFacebook.com domain still works and automatically switches to Facebook.com.

Twitter.com

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Similar to Facebook, Twitter 'microblogging' also used to carry another domain name before being known for the Twitter.com domain.

Specifically, the three co-founders of Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone initially chose the domain name for their social networking service, Twttr.com. A few months later, in 2006, three co-founders spent $ 7,500 to buy the domain of Twitter.com from a website specializing in birds.

Currently, the Twttr.com domain is still in use and automatically redirects to the Twitter.com website.

Ask.com

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Launched in June 1996 by David Warthen and Garrett Gruener, Ask.com originally brought the domain AskJeeves.com, quite long and hard to remember. This is the first search engine in the world to be able to respond to user questions, instead of just searching as keywords.

The word "Jeeves" appears in the domain AskJeeves.com is the character in the novel by the famous British writer PG Wodehouse. By 2006, the company that owned the decision to change the domain name AskJeeves.com to Ask.com was both easy to remember and mean more to bring the search experience to users.

Domain Name AskJevees.com is still active and automatically transferred to Ask.com every time it is accessed.

PerezHilton.com

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This is one of the most famous 'tabloid' blogs in the world, with articles, stories of 'gossip' about famous stars.

Initially, Mario Armando Lavandeira, the well-known blogger and the owner of the site, registered himself with PageSixSixSix.com in 2004. However, the New York Post later sued Perez Hilton for the domain name 'to eat'. Follow the ' Page Six column of this newspaper.

After that, Lavandeira decided to change the domain name of the site to PerezHilton.com, as well as a play on words to "kick" the famous Paris Hilton.

The PageSixSixSix.com website will now automatically redirect to the New York Post website.

NBCNews.com

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NBCNews.com is one of the famous websites that have recently changed domain names.

Initially, the site was named MSNBC.com, a media collaboration between Microsoft and NBC. However, this partnership ended in July 2012 and NBC decided to rename the site to NBCNews.com.

Currently, accessing MSNBC.com domain will automatically redirect to NBCNews.com website.

PayPal.com

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PayPal.com is one of the most popular online payment services available today. Initially, this site was launched with a fairly exclusive domain name, X.com.

X.com is an online payment service that combines Confinity, a money transfer service company and X.com, a company that helps solve business-related issues faced by businesses.

After a period of activity, many of the comments suggested that X had too many meanings, such as a mysterious, ambiguous meaning and even arousing thoughts about pornography. Finally, Confinity has decided to change its service name to PayPal and select the PayPal.com domain name.

Currently the X.com domain name is still active, owned by the e-commerce company under eBay. (PayPal is also owned by eBay).

Marvin Fry

Update 25 May 2019

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