[user24]

dropbox started with getdropbox.com and it didn't seem to do them any harm.

Their customers were techies though so I take your point about lay people not being 'used' to them. It's really a pretty arbitrary decision though, 'google' means nothing to their customers intrinsically. Build a brand and the name is unimportant.

[metachris]

Except that Dropbox needed to spend _a lot_ of money to get the .com domain.

[user24]

and they acquired that money while they had getdropbox.com. If get was a bad thing, it certainly didn't seem to hurt dropbox is what I'm saying.

[abbasmehdi]

So the point is, get it before getting famous, otherwise your fame will drive the price northward.