12/30/2005 08:16:00 AM|W|P|Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|
A few months ago we started looking for a good name for our project and found out that all the good names were gone. Well, not really gone but taken. That meant we had to buy our name instead of just register it. At first we tried to come up with a name that nobody had come up with before. But none were as good as the ones we could buy second hand. So after a while we decided to buy Fleck.com.
One of the good side effects about the domain was that it was registered a few years ago so wasn't a completely new domainname. And since Google treats older domainnames better than newer domainnames this is also something to consider. But there was another side effect we didn't think about when we bought the domain: SPAM.
Our domainname was out there for years and apparently ended up in several spam databases. As soon as we transferred the domainname to our name and set up our emailaddresses (with a CatchAll account pointing to MY personal account) the SPAM started streaming in. Up to 100 spam messages a day!
After 4 days I disabled the CatchAll account and that was the end of all that SPAM. It was a minor problem but still, I wonder what other side effects our new name will show in the future and hope the rest will be good ones...|W|P|113596002227448368|W|P|Fleck.com and SPAM|W|P|bomega@gmail.com12/30/2005 04:56:00 AM|W|P|Anonymous|W|P|
Starting a new company is a very intensive, but exciting experience. From the day we came up with the idea of Fleck, already a lot has happened. The first week we started to brainstorm a lot about the idea and how it should be done. Then we did multiple sessions of 'good cop bad cop' and found answers to every possible difficult question.
Then we started filing the patent. That was a good experience as it was our first patent.
With the Patent Pending label on our foreheads we started to talk to some well know Internet entrpreneurs and Investors. During our tiny 'road show' we met a lot of interesting people who gave us some very nifty advice. Therefore I'd like to thank some people we met on the way...
Scott Rafer (ex CEO feedster and chairman Wireless Ink), Reid Hoffman (CEO LinkedIN) and Soren Kenner (Lund & Kenner) and a lot more (for example my Mom).
We've already met so many intelligent and interesting people of whom I learn every day. All with different views and its up to us to make the best of the best out of all advices and give the people a new surf experience. It is as if your trading on the Stock exchange; you know what you have to do, but there is a difference between buying stocks and selling options at the same time and buying stocks and selling options at the same time at the best price. We'll do our best to get the best out of it for our Fleck users. Its exciting...
I don't lie when I say:
I LOVE MY WORK|W|P|113595322059771304|W|P|I LOVE MY WORK|W|P|12/26/2005 01:02:00 PM|W|P|Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|
A good start for this blog would be to explain something about the name and how we chose it. We spent a lot of time looking for a good name. We incorporated our company a few months ago and chose a technical name for that. But the name of our product, website and technology would be decided later. And we didn't just come up with it, we actually had a long list of alternatives which I'll post here in no particular order:
PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, Flink.org, TagaLink.com, Flink.org, Flinck.com, Linkes.com, PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, OURL.com, Wordinc.com, WordLink.com, WebWords.com, WordInfo.com, Lincs.com, LWeb.com, URABLE.com, Jizzle.com, Prlink.com, MyLink.org, Unlink.net, Allink.net, YLink.com, ZapLink.com, Linka.net, NowLink.com, LinkLab.com, Linkers.net, Interink.com, RefLink.com, GodLink.org, Linkse.com, OnLinks.com, LinkOff.com, Linkate.com, Blinki.com, GeeLink.com, HotLink.org, Outlink.org, InWords.com, Pulser.com, clicator.com, hypertie.com, youzing.com, inteliyou.com, linksnap.com, tiesnap.com, flealink.com, linktonic.com, democratiq.com, interwhip.com, interutopia.com, blinkburner.com, linkstie.com, linkwired.com, flungle.com, clicksy.com, klinka.com, reciproque.com, elinkt.com, metatie.com, flexmeta.com, spirimeta.com, elatos.org, elastical.org, modifier.org, flexile.org, suppletob.com, ulinq.com, linquer.com, quirley.com, ilastik.com
As you can see we did have a few alternatives to chose from! Fleck was a name that came up somewhere in the middle of our search and kept returning in our conversations. One reason we didn't chose it right away was the pricetag. These days, finding a domainname like this means paying for it. We ended up buying Fleck.com from BuyDomains. It wasn't that expensive, but more expensive than lunch.
If you want to know more about the word you can check the dictionary: http://www.answers.com/fleck
I'll write a bit about our feeling and ideas about the name in a later post.|W|P|113563218765333151|W|P|Fleck: what's in a name...|W|P|bomega@gmail.com12/28/2005 01:25:00 AM|W|P| Ellemijn|W|P|This is exciting stuff, bro!12/25/2005 02:24:00 AM|W|P|Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|So this is the first Fleck.com Blog post. We decided to start this blog because the first few months of starting a company are very exciting and we wanted to share our experiences with everybody. From now on we will keep everybody up-to-date on what is going on with Fleck.|W|P|113550630554881237|W|P|Fleck Blog first post|W|P|bomega@gmail.com1/22/2006 06:05:00 AM|W|P| Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten|W|P|Thanks Big Duke for your fleck But we are flecking serious about our flecking fleck! And if you don't believe it fleck you! But seriously: Fleck is going to be very fleck so watch this space!
A few months ago we started looking for a good name for our project and found out that all the good names were gone. Well, not really gone but taken. That meant we had to buy our name instead of just register it. At first we tried to come up with a name that nobody had come up with before. But none were as good as the ones we could buy second hand. So after a while we decided to buy Fleck.com.
One of the good side effects about the domain was that it was registered a few years ago so wasn't a completely new domainname. And since Google treats older domainnames better than newer domainnames this is also something to consider. But there was another side effect we didn't think about when we bought the domain: SPAM.
Our domainname was out there for years and apparently ended up in several spam databases. As soon as we transferred the domainname to our name and set up our emailaddresses (with a CatchAll account pointing to MY personal account) the SPAM started streaming in. Up to 100 spam messages a day!
After 4 days I disabled the CatchAll account and that was the end of all that SPAM. It was a minor problem but still, I wonder what other side effects our new name will show in the future and hope the rest will be good ones...|W|P|113596002227448368|W|P|Fleck.com and SPAM|W|P|bomega@gmail.com
Starting a new company is a very intensive, but exciting experience. From the day we came up with the idea of Fleck, already a lot has happened. The first week we started to brainstorm a lot about the idea and how it should be done. Then we did multiple sessions of 'good cop bad cop' and found answers to every possible difficult question.
Then we started filing the patent. That was a good experience as it was our first patent.
With the Patent Pending label on our foreheads we started to talk to some well know Internet entrpreneurs and Investors. During our tiny 'road show' we met a lot of interesting people who gave us some very nifty advice. Therefore I'd like to thank some people we met on the way...
Scott Rafer (ex CEO feedster and chairman Wireless Ink), Reid Hoffman (CEO LinkedIN) and Soren Kenner (Lund & Kenner) and a lot more (for example my Mom).
We've already met so many intelligent and interesting people of whom I learn every day. All with different views and its up to us to make the best of the best out of all advices and give the people a new surf experience. It is as if your trading on the Stock exchange; you know what you have to do, but there is a difference between buying stocks and selling options at the same time and buying stocks and selling options at the same time at the best price. We'll do our best to get the best out of it for our Fleck users. Its exciting...
I don't lie when I say:
I LOVE MY WORK|W|P|113595322059771304|W|P|I LOVE MY WORK|W|P|
A good start for this blog would be to explain something about the name and how we chose it. We spent a lot of time looking for a good name. We incorporated our company a few months ago and chose a technical name for that. But the name of our product, website and technology would be decided later. And we didn't just come up with it, we actually had a long list of alternatives which I'll post here in no particular order:
PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, Flink.org, TagaLink.com, Flink.org, Flinck.com, Linkes.com, PubLink.com, Hyperi.com, OURL.com, Wordinc.com, WordLink.com, WebWords.com, WordInfo.com, Lincs.com, LWeb.com, URABLE.com, Jizzle.com, Prlink.com, MyLink.org, Unlink.net, Allink.net, YLink.com, ZapLink.com, Linka.net, NowLink.com, LinkLab.com, Linkers.net, Interink.com, RefLink.com, GodLink.org, Linkse.com, OnLinks.com, LinkOff.com, Linkate.com, Blinki.com, GeeLink.com, HotLink.org, Outlink.org, InWords.com, Pulser.com, clicator.com, hypertie.com, youzing.com, inteliyou.com, linksnap.com, tiesnap.com, flealink.com, linktonic.com, democratiq.com, interwhip.com, interutopia.com, blinkburner.com, linkstie.com, linkwired.com, flungle.com, clicksy.com, klinka.com, reciproque.com, elinkt.com, metatie.com, flexmeta.com, spirimeta.com, elatos.org, elastical.org, modifier.org, flexile.org, suppletob.com, ulinq.com, linquer.com, quirley.com, ilastik.com
As you can see we did have a few alternatives to chose from! Fleck was a name that came up somewhere in the middle of our search and kept returning in our conversations. One reason we didn't chose it right away was the pricetag. These days, finding a domainname like this means paying for it. We ended up buying Fleck.com from BuyDomains. It wasn't that expensive, but more expensive than lunch.
If you want to know more about the word you can check the dictionary: http://www.answers.com/fleck
I'll write a bit about our feeling and ideas about the name in a later post.|W|P|113563218765333151|W|P|Fleck: what's in a name...|W|P|bomega@gmail.com
Ellemijn|W|P|This is exciting stuff, bro!