E.g. Recently, I came across http://www.re.st
this name is ok because it’s easy to
remember, you can probably do cute
things with the dot (to make a great
logo) and it has some merit.

Based on the names alone, i’d have to
pass on Ma.gnolia.com and Del.icio.us!

The name does have a bit of a backstory, but it boiled down to wanting to give a nod to del.icio.us who kicked off social bookmarking and that we really, really wanted the name magnolia. But if you look at magnolia.com you’ll see how we just weren’t going to get it.

Anyway, we get that the domain name style doesn’t work for everyone. But I am glad to see interest in the features, where we definitely think we can impress, and maybe make the domain name easier to take.

(And thanks for the post, Michael!)

I agree – these ridiculous domain names should be outlawed. Hopefully magnolia (where does that darned dot go again?) will make up for it with a killer service.

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch posts: I’m skeptical of companies that continue to launch with these domain name abominations (dropping vowels, using random ccTLDs and lots of extra dots), but if the service rocks, I will forgive all. Isn’t the resu…

With that said, social bookmarking has been attempted by companies such as blink.com in the nineties as well as yahoo. I believed they didn’t become popular because they failed to acknowledge social subcultures.

I’m skeptical of these sites until they understand that people in SOHO think differently than a people in SOMA or people in SOBE, even if the keyword/tag is similiar.