Small Business  Does Success Hinge on a Domain Name?  Startups
scrambling for domain names—the shorter and catchier, the
better—find themselves in negotiations with owners of desirable
Web addresses  Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story
incorrectly characterized the owner of the web domain as a
"cybersquatter." As readers have pointed out, the term is
generally used to refer to the owner of a domain name that
contains a trademark that is owned by someone else. This is a
corrected version.  Andrew Frame had several criteria for the
name of his VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) startup. It had
to be universally pronounceable, memorable, and short—ideally,
no more than four letters and two syllables. Of course, the dot-
com domain name also had to be available.  There are now more
than 71.1 million registered .com domains—about three times the
number of domains registered using .net, .org, .info, .biz, or
.us combined. Every possible two- and three-character dot-com
domain name was claimed years ago,