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A few methods -
- Take a common surname suffix and add a new prefix to it - Make up something that sounds vaguely Japanese, Scandinavian, Spanish etc and you pretty much always find something available - Take a word that already exists and change (or add) one or two letters
Admittedly the results of the above can border on the ludicrous but the idea is to come up with enough names to eliminate those.
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Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.
Wordle is a great name - it's short, only two syllables and relates directly to the product. A better example of a bad name might be Ycombinator. It's not immediately obvious what it means, and if you say it aloud it sounds like a question. Doesn't seem to matter much if you're successful enough though.
$ cat com.txt | sed 's/^\(\S*\.com\)\.\s.*/\1/' | sort | uniq A bit easier than a ruby script
cat com.txt | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq
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Squatting has an intention behind it. You don't call ancient coin collectors deplorable squatters because they are taking limited stock off the market.
But they're not collecting or w/e, they're searching and buying for the purpose of reselling. Which.. is squatting, no?
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Having the actual .com domain for your business signalise quality and authenticity, difficult to imagine Amazon having getamazon.com. That being said, I also spend many (good hours) dreaming away while buying all sorts of domain names for my fictitious startups. I found that when using the startup niche as suffix or prefix, the domain is sometimes available. Had plenty of luck buying "git-what-ever".com domains, like…
Step 1: Obtain gethotdogs.com Step 2: Make billions. Step 3: Buy hotdogs.com with your massive amounts of VC funds^W^Wcash. This is what Facebook (thefacebook.com), Dropbox (getdropbox.com), etc did.
Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.
Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress". When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of tho…
I am 71 years old and I am still do this. Good for you stopping!
Concerning the article: a clever idea but I think it is better manually thinking of words that match your idea and searching for similar free domain names - that doesn’t take much time.
Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress". When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of tho…
I have a couple of fairly high value domains I've kept I'm interested in selling, but there isn't a great market I've found for this instead of letting them go?
Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress". When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of tho…
> Literally hundreds of dollars flushed down the toilet all to get a temporary rush.
Is that really so bad? We pay hundreds of dollars for temporary rushes all the time.
Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress". When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of tho…
Agree 100% about domain names. The only exceptions could be for a personal blog perhaps or a brand.