On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Michael Feldhusen wrote:

> It *does* play off the Phoenyx name (it should be spelled correctly
> but that's minor nit)

And an annoying one.  The Phoenyx got its name almost fifteen years ago,
long before internet-in-the-home was even dreamed of by the BBS fiends of
the day.  (Heck, I didn't even know what the Internet was back then.)
You didn't have to know the name of the place, you just had to know it's
phone number.

Unfortunately, "phoenix" is difficult for people to spell correctly to
start with, and we intentionally misspell it.  But what can we do?
Karen's talked about getting a second domain name... we'd be one of those
bi-polar-personality sites with a domain name that doesn't match its real
name.  And keeping phoenyx.net as well means users who never switch to the
new domain, give out the old domain to friends, never change web-page
links, and generally cause confusion.

We *could* change our name entirely... but we've got a bit of a reputation
and it'd almost be like starting over in a lot of ways.  *And* in this day
and age of .com's dropping like flies, I'd hate to give *any* impression
that we failed, were bought out, or otherwise have been affected by the
floundering net.economy.  (This is the biggest thing we have going for us
over the competition... we run on zero income. :)

So we're kind of stuck.  Our only hope is to make the Phoenyx so wildly
popular everyong on the net knows our name and how to spell it.

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