<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif'>
<p> </p>
<div> </div>
<p>They stopped selling OneWords.</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/what3words/status/594070034625986561</p>
<p>On 2015-11-24 11:03, Tom Hughes wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored -->
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 24/11/15 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:</span><br /><br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Even if we completely ignore the licensing issues, there is a profit</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">motive behind w3w. They gotta sell something. And I'd be shocked if</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">it's not vanity words. So, say I start telling friends about this</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">awesome sushi place at food.bear.utopia, but a competing eating</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">establishment buys the naming rights and has it changed to</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">sushi.sucks.ass. Now you're not going to find your salmon sashimi at</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">food.bear.utopia because that's not a valid combination anymore.</span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">It's no secret that they do that - it's called a "OneWord".</span><br /><br /> I'll grant you I can't easily see it on their web site right now but they certainly were selling single word locators for a premium.<br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">See eg <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/what3words/">http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/what3words/</a>.</span><br /><br /> Tom</div>
</blockquote>
</body></html>