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How to use prefixes and suffixes in domains

April 21, 2017 by Christopher Carfi 1 Comment

Just before you are about to fall asleep, you think of a catchy name for your next venture. You go to choose a domain name, like yourcompanyname.com, and you find that it’s already registered. You shut your laptop, go back to bed and wake up in the morning thinking “what now?”

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Christopher Carfi
Christopher Carfi

A veteran of both startups and the enterprise, Chris has a deep track record in developing customer community and evangelist programs for brands such as Adobe, H&R Block and Aruba Networks while holding executive positions at Ant’s Eye View and Edelman Digital, and he was co-founder and CEO at Cerado. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his family.

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Why is Yandex Called Yandex?

November 29, 2016 by Adam Lang Leave a Comment

With over twenty three million searches per second, it’s probably comes as no surprise that Google dominates how we discover information. What’s less obvious, is that Google spans the world, with localized engines built in 123 different languages, from the Bahamas to Greece to Japan. These localized engines can be easily accessed by typing in the corresponding country’s code top level domain (ccTLD). For example, if you were located in Russia, instead of typing google.com in your browser, you’d type google.ru.   [Read more…]

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Adam Lang

Adam Lang is the founder and editor of Rewind & Capture. He is passionate about creative marketing, design and brand etymology.

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Why is Moz Called Moz?

November 10, 2015 by Adam Lang 3 Comments

Here’s an inspirational tale of a curious man who grew his company, even in the face of a $500,000 debt, no college degree and at one point in time, just rudimentary knowledge of why one little blue link ranked above others.

Moz, previously SEOmoz, was founded in Seattle, WA by Rand Fishkin and Gillian Muessig (Rand’s mom) in 2004; however the startup journey commenced years before then. In 1981, Rand and his parents moved from New York to Seattle after his father accepted a position with Boeing. Shortly after arriving in Seattle, Gillian started a business called Outlines West, which provided a variety of marketing services to small businesses.

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Adam Lang

Adam Lang is the founder and editor of Rewind & Capture. He is passionate about creative marketing, design and brand etymology.

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Filed Under: How Tech Brands Got Their Names Tagged With: Inbound Marketing, Marketing Software, Rand Fishkin, Search Engine Optimization, SEO

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