Dec [{(:no_ai:)}] on Nostr: There was a trend in the early 2000s where startups were seeing that their first 5 ...

There was a trend in the early 2000s where startups were seeing that their first 5 choices of name already had the .com domain registered by someone else, so they would pay a lot of money to a branding consultancy to come up with an original name like Smurtreo. Instead of making lowball offers to all the .com domain holders in the hope that one of them would counter with a reasonable offer.