A year and a half ago, Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of a company called Tiny, shared some thoughts about how he felt when someone referred to his company as “Tiny Capital,” because the company’s slightly off-brand domain name was TinyCapital.com:
Nothing makes my eye twitch quite like when somebody calls our company Tiny Capital instead of Tiny.
Same thing happened with MetaLab. We couldn’t get the domain, so we got https://t.co/fchhsL2Uhy.
Forever “MetaLab Design” instead of MetaLab.
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) October 1, 2020
After seeing the tweet in 2020, I followed up by asking Andrew how much his company would pay for Tiny.com if it were to ever become available to purchase, but he did not reply to my tweet. This morning, Andrew announced that his company acquired Tiny.com:
After many years of my eye twitching every time someone referred to us as “Tiny Capital”, I’m excited to announce that we just acquired a new domain.
Long live https://t.co/zMIcuXRjrE
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) March 30, 2022
It looks like Tiny is already making good use of Tiny.com. In fact, the company’s website has been re-located to Tiny.com from TinyCapital.com. Going forward, the company will have fewer people who think its brand name is Tiny Capital.
I don’t know how much Tiny paid to acquire Tiny.com, but I am sure this valuable domain name had a substantial acquisition cost. Andrew didn’t share the sale price (yet), but he did briefly comment on how the purchase process went:
1. I asked how much
2. The guy said a number that made me want to retch
3. I paid him the money
4. I felt poor, but happy to have the domain
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) March 30, 2022
I already added this upgrade to the list of companies that upgraded their domain names.
