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We will offer alternative domains. dikalo.net and dikalo.co beeing one of those. Also the landing page will have more infos soon.

With messaging done right we mean Messaging without you giving up any private infos. No email, no phone nr, no sign up required. In fact you can use Dikalo without ever opening an account.

The reason we started with dklo.co is because we wanted people to type as little as possible.

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Correct me if I'm wrong:

Most links are sent via text (email, messaging, social networks) where they're automatically turned into hyperlinks. Length isn't an issue here.

When they are spoken, vowels help a lot. It's not fun to spell out D-K-L-O-DOT-CO, no not COM, CO.

In the end though, I don't think it matters that much either way, just bikeshedding.

:) I think once you use the service you will get used to the name :)

I think you are lowering your conversion rate. My guess is if you do A/B testing with invitation emails, more people will use the service with a 'respectable' looking URL rather than one that looks 'dodgy'.

Sure, have a short name once people are converted, but make a good first impression.

Agreed. And we will def. provide better looking URLS.

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