I named my company on the first day that I sat down to write an outline of the business plan. Having written my thoughts about what the business would be in Microsoft Word, I had to save the file to my desktop and name it. I gave no thought of the business name, I just named the doc with the first thing that came to me - a working title that I intended to change later. But the name never changed because it was unique and top of mind. It stuck.

Try tapping into a stream of consciousness (meaning, don't over think things) and write a list of words. Or, ask some relative who is not tech savvy to tell you the first words that come to their mind (my mom is good for this).

Lastly, in my second startup (circa 1999), we hired a naming consultant for big $$ and the one take away was: Brand names pretty much don't matter. Nike may have sounded dumb the first time people heard it, but folks remembered it AFTER they tried their shoes. Intel sounds like a spy organization. Microsoft sounds like something for scientists, yet it is a consumer brand now. The bottom line: Don't freak out to much on the name.

I made something like that also, but the problem is my name is local. I have e-commerce.ccTLD/e-store.ccTLD meaning in my language. That is great, but I looking at global name for my biz.

I like the bottom line, the product and all around it (sales, marketing) is what is important.

Thanks, B-Scan

Try using http://impossibility.org/ - a domain name generator.

It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. There's some surprisingly good domains available from it.

Tnx. Will do. That + Wordoid looks promising!

You're welcome. Best of luck!

UPDATE:

Thank you all for your comments. I tried all the methods/services.

Biggest luck I had with Wordoid. After few thousands of variations I came with 50 .com names.

When I tried they real availability it was about 30 free names. I guess that Wordoid just pings domains or have some long cache for whois. However, in sign of appreciation I used affiliate link.

So final name is: shopeful.com. I hope that "e" in the middle will be ok.

I prefer shopinella (or shoppinella) - or shopinelli

Have you tried http://wordoid.com?

I didn't. Nice find. Thank you. Will try something.

Let us know when you decide on something. :)

Having searched for mine (zookshop.com) for weeks, I sincerely wish you good luck.

Also, you will notice at some point that 99% of \d{1,4}shop.com is registered in China and parked. What's up with that?

Yeah, I already saw many parked domains like that :(

Thx. Btw ZookShop looks nice!

It's a little more complex but more powerful. http://lingzini.com/

transactt.com pockettrip.com cashmatt.com wellwallet.com popwol.com (popular wallet) dolwol.com groovepay.com stashfit.com traypay.com cashelli.com cashpoke.com paypoke.com cashspoke.com pocketpoke.com wolstreet.com

Thank you for concrete names! It's appreciated. My favs from here are groovepay.com and cashelli.com. But main focus of my startup are shops (sorry, you couldn't know that).