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JonOssoff.com: Damaging to Jon Ossoff Campaign?

Elliot Silver
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Jon Ossoff is a Democratic Party politician running for United States Senate in one of two run-off elections in the state of Georgia. Mr. Ossoff uses the short ElectJon.com domain name for his campaign website. This is a solid call to action domain name for his campaign, but I do not believe it is the ideal domain name for him. I believe the matching JonOssoff.com domain name would be better. Unfortunately, someone beat Mr. Ossoff to the punch, and even more unfortunate for his campaign, it is being used against him by a rival political organization:

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Trove Becomes Pave After Payfone Becomes Prove

Elliot Silver
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Over the Summer, I wrote about a major rebrand involving an exceptional one word .com domain name. A company called Payfone rebranded as Prove, and it acquired the matching Prove.com domain name at the time of the rebrand. The company formerly known as Payfone also owned an additional exceptional one word .com domain name – Pave.com.

I read a press release yesterday announcing another rebrand that I found interesting. A startup called Trove, which had been operating on the off-brand .CO domain name, TryTrove.CO, announced a rebrand to Pave. The rebrand announcement came as the business announced that “it raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).” Smartly, the company acquired Pave.com in advance of the launch and now has the brand match .com domain name along with the new branding.

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Calm.com Caught the Attention of Jason Calacanis

Elliot Silver
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Yesterday afternoon, Bloomberg reported that Calm, a popular meditation app, is looking to raise a round of funding at a $2.2 billion valuation. While Calm is an app, it also owns its brand match Calm.com domain name. It has owned Calm.com for many years, and that may have made a difference in its initial upward trajectory.

One of the early investors in Calm was Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist and startup founder/advisor. Jason is also quite familiar with domain names. Some domain names he has owned or been involved with include 20.com, Inside.com, Annotated.com, and Mahalo.com.

Late last night on Twitter, Jason was reminiscing about his early $378,000 investment in Calm:

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Downside of Using Generic Keyword for Branding

Elliot Silver
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There are quite a few successful brands that simply use a dictionary word for branding. When a company builds its brand around a popular keyword, I always recommend getting the brand match .com domain name. The downside to branding on a generic term, especially when the brand match .com domain name is not owned by the company, is the potential for confusion.

I want to illustrate this with a pair of TechCrunch tweets from today and yesterday. The tweets link to articles about companies that use the generic term “Frame” in their branding and announced that they raised outside capital:

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LiveChat CMO Comments on LiveChat.com Acquisition

Elliot Silver
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LiveChat is an online customer service software provider offering live chat support that can be utilized by its clients on their websites. The company was founded in 2002, and it has been using the less than ideal LiveChatInc.com domain name for its website. Earlier this week, LiveChat sent an email to customers announcing that it migrated its website to the brand match LiveChat.com domain name. LiveChat CEO Mariusz Cieply also announced the news via Twitter:

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Target Registers Coronavirus Testing Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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Sometimes domain name registrations can be leading indicators of a company’s future plans. Domain names can also be registered for protective purposes, preventing other people from registering and using them first. We don’t always know why a company registers particular domain names, but I find it interesting to observe domain names that large companies register.

This morning on Twitter, Jamie Zoch reported that Target registered several on-brand domain names related to Coronavirus / COVID 19 testing. For instance, Target registered TargetCoronaTest.com, TargetCovid19Test.com, TargetCovidTest.com, and TestingAtTarget.com:

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