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100% of the top 20 by valuation have their .com

What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com



A great example: how long did it take Square to get their hands on square.com? Even now it's just a redirect to squareup.com.


Another example: Dropbox originally had getdropbox.com, and didn't obtain dropbox.com until more than 2 years after founding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)#2007-2011


And another: Box launched as box.net, and spent about $1 million to buy box.com. [0]

For earlier companies, you can buy a lot of engineers, product, and marketing for $1 million.

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/how-box-net-became-box-com-for-just...


Exactly, that's the real test. The information is available:

http://brianjackson.io/view-dns-history-free/


Cheaper still, would be to get a new name that has an available .com




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