formspring.me spun out of an existing company that was originally at formspring.com (now being rebranded as FormStack).

The purpose of formspring.com was to allow people to easily create online forms. It was launched over 4 years ago, well before formspring.me was ever conceived, and the name made a lot of sense given what the product did. Plus, the domain was available :)

The history of formspring.me is that it began when people started using free formspring.com accounts to collect questions and comments from friends. It wasn't long before people started using the name of the site as a verb. People would post a link and ask friends to "formspring me". So it only made sense to launch the new site at formspring.me.