[OSM-talk] What3words

[Colin Smale]

They stopped selling OneWords. 

https://twitter.com/what3words/status/594070034625986561 

On 2015-11-24 11:03, Tom Hughes wrote: 

> On 24/11/15 08:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Even if we completely ignore the licensing issues, there is a profit
>> motive behind w3w.  They gotta sell something.  And I'd be shocked if
>> it's not vanity words.  So, say I start telling friends about this
>> awesome sushi place at food.bear.utopia, but a competing eating
>> establishment buys the naming rights and has it changed to
>> sushi.sucks.ass.  Now you're not going to find your salmon sashimi at
>> food.bear.utopia because that's not a valid combination anymore.
> 
> It's no secret that they do that - it's called a "OneWord".
> 
> 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.
> 
> See eg http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/what3words/.
> 
> Tom
 
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