I don't think I would have started rsync.net if the domain rsync.net had not been available.

It sounds ridiculous - a completely artificial stumbling block that would be easily hurdled ... and yet ... the entire basis of the business was a cloud storage platform that was so basic you could understand exactly how it worked just by seeing the domain name.

As an aside, I asked for, and received, explicit permission from the maintainers of the 'rsync' tool before launching and using the domain name ...