On 24/11/15 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
Even if we completely ignore the licensing issues, there is a profit
motive behind w3w. They gotta sell something. And I'd be shocked if
it's not vanity words. So, say I start telling friends about this
awesome sushi place at food.bear.utopia, but a competing eating
establishment buys the naming rights and has it changed to
sushi.sucks.ass. Now you're not going to find your salmon sashimi at
food.bear.utopia because that's not a valid combination anymore.
It's no secret that they do that - it's called a "OneWord".
I'll grant you I can't easily see it on their web site right now but
they certainly were selling single word locators for a premium.
See eg http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/what3words/.
Tom
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