Change Your Name

Post by chaostheory » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 4:24 AM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #277

chaostheory wrote: post #206

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> But whether it's worth the effort of finding one it if you don't have it already is another discussion all together. Whether or not you agree with pg, finding a decent .com is pretty cheap in terms of time and money when you have free domain name checking services that give you available .com variants of desired keywords. Even though I know this, I'm still always surprised when I see the 2-3 syllable .com domain na…

Thats just not true. It's not some universal law you can apply. You have to take into considering the amount of time and what kind of name you have access to.

Post by BinaryIdiot » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 4:37 AM UTC

ozim wrote: post #209

natch wrote: post #159

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You completely ignored PG's argument about it signaling weakness. This is one of those perception versus reality things, where people's perceptions (those who are judging a startup) ARE the reality, whether those perceptions are theoretically refutable or not. In other words, let's say you're right, and owning the .com domain name is becoming less meaningful (an argument that PG already addressed, by the way). That d…

I agree here with Natch, compare point about signaling weakness with sending your CV from "fancy_kid_45@gmail.com" to "firstname.lastname@gmail.com" or even "firstname@lastname.com" what looks most professional? Can you imagine reading CV of a person with fancy kid mail?

Post by wyclif » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 5:31 AM UTC

ploxiln wrote: post #46

hyperpallium wrote: post #41

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yes, didn't dropbox used to be trydropbox.com? And, tho non-YC, delicious.com was del.icio.us (or something). Successful companies can buy their domain. But I agree with pg; a startup by any other name would succeed as sweet, so why not choose one you can get.

del.icio.us is an awesome domain. I'd be inclined to believe someone came up with the domain before the name.

Post by snowmaker » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 7:45 AM UTC

paulsutter wrote: post #305

booruguru wrote: post #117

If the .com name you want is already registered, you can always buy it later once you business is successful enough to justify the investment (much like betali.st and getdropbox.com). There's no point in buying an expensive domain name for a company that may not survive past the startup stage. Note: a large swath of web users don't even understand the concept of a domain name or address bar...instead they google term…

Exactly - his statistics are missing the important number, how many of those late stage YC startups had purchased the .com after they had raised substantial funding? (ie, could it be the pattern rather than the antipattern)

Post by TeMPOraL » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 9:57 AM UTC

onedev wrote: post #255

TeMPOraL wrote: post #171

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> Great names are made not found. > But for most people just like their logo it's it's not that important until you become big Exactly this. If you look at the most successful companies in all sectors out there, most of them have logos that range from plain to just ugly, and many of them feel like they were initially created as a formatted company name on top of some document, back when the company's secretary first…

Check out this short video by a well known graphic designer (Michael Beirut). He explicitly talks about how logos are inherently NOT important and are overemphasized in the world. Rather it is the consistent actions of a company that give a logo meaning and builds a "brand": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0jw-Q7r-ng