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Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by paxys »

probably_wrong wrote: post #78
ramraj07 wrote: post #36

A tip I discovered - use hyphens, and suddenly very small nice domains become available. No one types domains anyway. Also does anyone know how to get a shady domain parking service to give up on a domain they’ve been holding for decades? I’m actually happy to pay 500 but not thousands and it’s not even a domain that a company or commercial interest would want to purchase.

> No one types domains anyway. Only as long as you don't plan to offer e-mail under that domain.

My company's email domain has a hyphen in it (xyz@company-corp.com). Works perfectly fine.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by tmp_anon_22 »

omoikane wrote: post #210
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…

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.

Spending money on trivialities is not how you project strength. If your business is so fragile it rests on the reputation of its TLD, you are already weak.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by xmprt »

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.

Valve isn't buying steam.com because they don't want to, not because they can't.

> Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company

Anyone sitting on steam.com right now, thinking that Valve is more likely to buy it tomorrow than they are today is delusional. Domain names and TLDs are becoming less relevant day by day and especially with Valve/Steam's computer savvy, gamer userbase, I don't think they really need steam.com. It could be helpful but if they've already decided they don't want it today then they probably won't change their minds tomorrow.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by julianeon »

andrewla wrote: post #154

These accounts are indeed free, but not without burdens. You need to give your address and agree to a bunch of terms in order to gain access at all, and then each time you request access to a specific piece of data you need to provide a justification and agree to another set of terms. Interestingly, among those terms are: > 1.3. not to use this Data, nor permit this Data to be used for any marketing purposes whatsoev…

Choosing a domain name is arguably one of the core use cases here; I don't think they were looking for extremely creative readings here. What they don't want people to do is take these results and slap them in an ad to drive business. But using these results to pick your own domain name, which you personally plan to use, is fine and good.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by 867-5309 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #250
867-5309 wrote: post #244

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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

it will help all of those, by the people who couldn't remember your novelty tld autonomically trying .com

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by picture »

867-5309 wrote: post #256
yieldcrv wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

it will help all of those, by the people who couldn't remember your novelty tld autonomically trying .com

The default for people who couldn't remember seems to have become typing it into google. It helps that most browsers support omnibox type search

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by yieldcrv »

867-5309 wrote: post #256
yieldcrv wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

it will help all of those, by the people who couldn't remember your novelty tld autonomically trying .com

people reach your site by clicking through on social media and chatting apps - and referencing those places again if they cant remember

unless you specifically have targeted and proven that an audience is going to bring value to you, and they use .com and search engines to find you, then there is no reason to cater to these luddite and elderly people. Its a deprecated assumption only relevant to deprecated people.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by bhartzer »

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…

>> 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.

I totally agree, you can always "upgrade" later to a better, shorter, or more appropriate domain later. The TLD doesn't matter, either. The only potential exception to this would be if you're building something "local", whereas you'd want to get the ccTLD domain if you're targeting users in one particular country.

Re: Find a good available .com domain

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Post by jackblemming »

BbzzbB wrote: post #247
codegeek wrote: post #225

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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…

The OP didn’t say anything was wrong with Google and you repeated exactly what they were getting at.
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