As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com?

Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? by bambax on Thursday February 03, 2011 @08:38AM (#2174642)

> no one is typing a url by hand. We use google

I type urls by hand and do CTRL+Return to add the .com and get there.

But even if everyone is using Google, a unique name like "roollr" will certainly be easier to find than "roller" that will exist in many tlds. How will your users remember that you're the .at one, and that .com or .it have nothing to do with you?

It's so much easier for everyone to use a .com

(BTW I don't know if you chose roller as a generic example, but roller.com is apparently for sale at sedo).

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Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? by dotcommer on Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:26AM (#2174789)

Oh and btw, "for sale". Recently, I made a price request for some dot-com domain, which sounds kind of fun, has 6 characters, but is not even an english word. The price was $18500. Now image what roller.com would cost.

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Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? by markkat on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:10PM (#2175508)

I think I might happened upon a domain that you might like in your name's neighborhood. -It's not registered; I don't want to post it. Send me an email.

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Re:As HN: Startup name — dot com or not dot com? by dotcommer on Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:15AM (#2174753)

Sure, it was just a placeholder for some weird name.

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