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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by bombcar »

johndough wrote: post #235
runjake wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 1: Steam could not buy steam.com. Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.

Steam hasn't been really slowed down by not having steam.com however - even Valve itself doesn't have valve.com

Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by bombcar »

nicwolff wrote: post #216
l5870uoo9y wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Do only us old farts remember the canonical example of having to buy your .com after you've made it very valuable? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-...

I remember altavista.digital.com from back when people thought subdomains were really going to matter - but eventually they went away and Google took over.

Ha! The current owners still have altavista.digital.com - it has some history thing.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by 867-5309 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #228
omoikane wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: "Change Your Name" - http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

> The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. That was wrong in 2015 and it is wrong now. What is seen as validation to users in Europe is different to North America is different to Asia. You can run a whole business in a group chat back then, and North America is just catching on to that, barely moving off of the concept of a .com presence and being okay that other TLD's are good e…

it doesn't change the fact that .com is and will forever be the de facto TLD

even if you succeed with appthatslaps.millennial, you're still going to redirect appthatslaps.com to it

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by nwiswell »

runjake wrote: post #199
l5870uoo9y wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This only works if you are trying to go hyperscale. Most side projects do not qualify.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by Tyr42 »

alainchabat wrote: post #122
_andrei_ wrote: post #47

But is it a good one? There are better methods for finding an actually good domain name, you just have to think outside the box and come up with new ideas constantly. For example these domains should be available wink wink : editormag.com geekyglossary.com infiniteiterator.com infographics365.com minutequestions.com museumology.com onlinehistorian.com webdesigndaily.com donateyourcomputerpower.com lazysites.com scorc…

Love your creativity! Requesting a domain name just in case: would love a domain name for a side project: It will allow users to list what they own (maybe a photo or video, idk yet), and they'll be able to consult it, but other people can also check what they have.

Boardgamegeek lets you mark your collection, including "Want to trade"

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by BbzzbB »

codegeek wrote: post #225
joshstrange wrote: post #169

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 pretty much stopped obsessing over domain names after seeing the success of "google". Ultimately it is the product/service/business that matters. Sure, we all try to get a domain name that we want/like but no need obsessing over it. It sucks that most of us didn't know what to do in 1994 when lot of dictionary words were available. But it is what it is.

What's wrong with Google? I'm sure the origin (googolplex) is lost on most people, but it seems like a decent brand name to me. On top of which, consider if Yahoo! had won the search market, i don't think their brand would've become a universal verb.

Granted, I don't believe it was an explicit choice to have a "verbale" brand-name.

But you (and many others in this thread) are right that names often don't matter that much. A better product will normally win regardless of the name, and once it does it's name will become "normalized". Duckduckgo might be such an example.. terrible name (IMO), yet respected by many as a Google-alternative.

Your product likely won't fail because of a bad name, but it doesn't hurt to have a good one.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by julianeon »

rootsudo wrote: post #171

Everyone beat me with the one liners :) surprised someone had a file.open loop while cat and awk would work. More surprised to see Ruby used.

Sometimes performance considerations are irrelevant, because if your data is small enough, slow mainstream programming languages can blaze through the workload in an instant. This is one of those cases.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by gregmac »

jszymborski wrote: post #224
joshstrange wrote: post #169

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…

Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.

For context, the original URL was http://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle

Now it's https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

It's never been wordle.com (or even at any TLD), and despite that:

> Over 300,000 people played Wordle on January 2, 2022, up from 90 players on November 1, 2021, a figure that rose to over 2 million a week later. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle#Rise_in_popularity

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by yieldcrv »

867-5309 wrote: post #244
yieldcrv wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. That was wrong in 2015 and it is wrong now. What is seen as validation to users in Europe is different to North America is different to Asia. You can run a whole business in a group chat back then, and North America is just catching on to that, barely moving off of the concept of a .com presence and being okay that other TLD's are good e…

it doesn't change the fact that .com is and will forever be the de facto TLD even if you succeed with appthatslaps.millennial, you're still going to redirect appthatslaps.com to it

its more like an optional tld that wont do anything for your engagement, actual revenue, or air of legitimacy
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