Why did Flickr drop the "e"? ⇒
9 January 2013, lunch time
From the co-founder, Stewart Butterfield, we get the following answer:
Because the guy who owned the domain http://flicker.com wouldn’t sell it and we loved the name. Dropping the “e” was Caterina Fake’s idea — I was against it at first because it looked so wrong, but I eventually came to see the wisdom: it was easy for us to get the domain, but it was also more distinctive & recognizable, easier to search for, etc.
It’s funny they weren’t actively trying to be hip or start some sort of Web 2.0 trend.
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