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I mean seriously, I constantly have customers coming in fretting about domain names. One chap sits at the visitor PC and spends hours (literally) trying different iterations of common words, and combinations. This is just silly. I tell them to relax, the name really isn't important. Content is king on the internet, the name doesn't matter a damn.

Lets take our favourite website, slashdot. What exactly does that have to do with technology or news? Nothing, and yet its one of the most successful sites out there. Google is a verb, for gods sake, and its domain name has exactly zero to do with searching. If these guys had their way, it would have been called simplysearch.com or something. One of our most successful websites LIreland the domain name doesn't mention anything to do with driving or driving schools.

This domain name hunting fad will be consigned to the murky annals of bankruptcy before too long, as more and more useful, content rich sites gain a reputation and a following. Meanwhile, trust me, the name doesn't matter a damn.

"...he probably got his head bashed in after a drunken argument over someones wife, all generally misinterpreted, with the "injured party" sneaking back afterwards with his friends to do the deed."

http://www.lireland.com/

Yeah, those damn Irish potato eating drunkards! They don't call it a paddy wagon for nothin! I think we should all round them up and...

Oh, you were talking about russia. Oops.

While I'm sure life in Russia is not a life of peace and happiness and sunny days, I doubt its as corrupt, violent, and ceaselessly oppressive as you sugest. Personally my gut feel is you just had a bad experience.

Because lets face it...you don't know psychology, Tom Cruise does (just like we don't know Russia, but you do).