.com
However fancy a domain is, every successful business, especially with an online presence will end up with a .com, the right .com.
I’m making a list of successful (or was) companies that started with a different domain, prefix, suffice, non-vowel, and others that eventually went on to buy/acquire the ideal .com domain.
| Now | Was | Details & References |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| abbey.com | abbyconnect.com | |
| airfocus.com | airfocus.io | |
| anker.com | iAnker.com | |
| B | ||
| buttondown.com | buttondown.email | Notes on buttondown.com |
| box.com | box.net | |
| bellhop.com | getbellhops.com | |
| bitly.com | bit.ly | |
| bright.com | brightrentals.com | |
| buffer.com | bufferapp.com | |
| bungalow.com | livebungalow.com | |
| C | ||
| clubhouse.com | joinclubhouse.com | |
| class.com | classedu.com | |
| clicky.com | getclicky.com | |
| close.com | close.io | |
| compass.com | urbancompass.com | |
| contra.com | contra.work | |
| D | ||
| delicious.com | del.icio.us | |
| dropbox.com | getdropbox.com | |
| drop.com | massdrop.com | |
| discord.com | discordapp.com | |
| dji.com | dji-innovations.com | |
| F | ||
| facebook.com | thefacebook.com | $200,000 and fb.com for $8.5M. |
| flicker.com | flickr.com | Yahoo Takes Flicker.com |
| fortnite.com | fortnitegame.com | |
| foursquare.com | playfoursquare.com | |
| G | ||
| grab.com | grabtaxi.com | |
| H | ||
| hopin.com | hopin.to | |
| I | ||
| instagram.com | instagr.am | |
| intercom.com | intercom.io | |
| invision.com | invisionapp.com | |
| L | ||
| loom.com | useloom.com | |
| M | ||
| mercury.com | mercury.co | |
| mint.com | mymint.com | |
| N | ||
| notion.com | notion.so | |
| P | ||
| paw.com | treatadog.com | |
| podium.com | podium.co | |
| postman.com | getpostman.com | (Find source $85,000) |
| R | ||
| roboflow.com | roboflow.ai | |
| room.com | getroom.com | |
| S | ||
| scale.com | scale.ai | |
| sesh.com | gosesh.com | |
| shield.com | cashshield.com | |
| slack.com | slackhq.com | |
| square.com | squareup.com | |
| stripe.com | getstripe.com | |
| T | ||
| tesla.com | teslamotors.com | |
| tink.com | tink.se | |
| W | ||
| wise.com | transferwise.com | |
| twitter.com | twttr.com | |
| U | ||
| uber.com | ubercab.com | |
| user.com | userengage.com | |
| universal.com | universalstudios.com | |
| V | ||
| vivo.com | vivoglobal.com | |
| W | ||
| walrus.com | walrus.health | |
| Z | ||
| zeplin.com | zeplin.io | |
| zoom.com | zoom.us |