Crowd Favorite will use crowdfavorite.net.
Is that your final answer?
Having changed my mind twice in the last 72 hours, I’m happy to say: yes, dammit! 
When I first decided on Crowd Favorite as my business name, I saw that the .com was taken and was okay using the .net. Of course I registered a bunch of variations too, one of them being crowdfave.com.
I asked a few people which they liked better and started getting interesting responses. That prompted me to take a poll, which led to even more interesting feedback.
I was all set on using crowdfavorite.net, but a lot of people I really respect had strong feelings that crowdfave.com was a better option. They made persuasive arguments, and eventually I decided to go ahead with crowdfave.com.
I spent time over the last 3 days converting about 500 kingdesign.net links to crowdfave.com in my software packages, documentation, etc.
I finished that late last night, and as soon as I did, I immediately knew I’d made a mistake.
As noted well in some recent comments, crowdfave.com has two big problems:
- it’s not speakable enough
- it’s not the name of the business
It’s a lot easier to tell someone to go to “crowd favorite dot net” than it is to tell them to go to “crowd fave dot com”, or even worse “crowd eff ay vee ee dot com”, which is probably what follows when I have to explain that the domain is an abbreviation of the business name.
Scott nailed it, if I wanted to use crowdfave.com I should name the business Crowd Fave. I like Crowd Favorite better, so I’m using crowdfavorite.net.
Done and done.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Vince adds this Comment:
Glad you went with the full company name. You won’t regret it, trust me! In my haze of my comment the other night, I forgot to mention that even though commongrounddistributors.com is long and ugly [two "d's" next to each other], it is quite simple to say and people can type it as you say it. About the only problem I see with crowdfavorite.net is the UK spelling, but I think you’ve already registered that name.
FWIW, I think you made a very wise choice. I believe it will become a crowd favorite.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Sunil Rodger adds this Comment:
With respect to misspellings of favourite/favorite – if you have/could register both, you could point the former at the latter… which should mitigate that potential problem – even if you don’t do much work for Europeans!
I think you’ve made the right choice in terms of fave vs. favourite, too – as you rightly say, it’s the name of the business, and you shouldn’t have any problems with people going “how is that shortened?”. You could always point crowdfave at the main URL, too.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Chris Woods adds this Comment:
Well done all around. Great name. Great site. Congrats.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Vince– thanks, and thanks for your previous comment as well.
Sunil– yes, I did register “favourite” variations too. All of the 2 dozen or so variations I registered are pointed at the site.
Chris– thanks.
June 8th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Will adds this Comment:
I love the new site design and agree that you made the right choice!
June 8th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Chris Meller adds this Comment:
I agree with everyone else, very nice looking site. It’s nice and clean and well organized, but it’s got spunk.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Will & Chris– thanks for the kind words!
June 9th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Ivan Pan adds this Comment:
I don’t how and why, but when I type “crowdfavorite.com”, it takes me to “crowdfavorite.net”. However from GoDaddy.com, it still belongs to the original owner, Brent Rotondi.
July 21st, 2007 at 10:39 pm
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