Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com

October 13th, 2009 admin
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At TechCrunch we’ve been big fans of Dropbox for a long time now — the company launched at 2008’s TechCrunch50, we use the service to share images and documents on a daily basis, and we’re even impressed by the demo video they put together to help explain what the service does to newcomers. But there’s one thing we haven’t liked: Dropbox has been using the domain Get Dropbox.com for years. Granted, it’s not a difficult URL to remember, but we’ve sometimes accidentally visited (and even occasionally linked) back to Dropbox.com. Now it looks like that is no longer an issue, as Dropbox has apparently …


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