Where did start.com get its name?
I remember some time ago getting a piece of email that basically said,
"Hey, is anybody using
start.com?"
I have since learned that that
domain was registered by the marketing department,
presumably to "synergize" with the "Start Me Up" campaign
or something like that,
but nothing ever happened with it.
Nevertheless the registration kept getting renewed
year after year.
(Perhaps we should also put marketing in charge of
renewing
passport.com
since they seem to do a better job of
keeping on top of expiring registrations
than whoever is in charge of Passport.)
It was probably at about the time I got that email that
the start team
(except that wasn't their name yet)
was looking for a domain name they could use
to host their little experiment,
and they stumbled across start.com and wondered whether
anybody was using it.
Nobody was, so they took it and did something interesting.
The rest is history.
(Oh wait, this was history, too.)
