Re:How did you guys name your startup?
by zach on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @04:32AM
(#29158)
Expiring domains, dude.
Several hours on Instant Domain Search, eventually finding one that was expiring, slapping down $18 at GoDaddy, and waiting patiently for it to finally be released. That's how we got lalife.com and, just today, localgo.com for our upcoming site.
Okay, actually, we got LALife.com directly from GoDaddy a few months before they started auctioning off such domains. But localgo.com just flat-out expired, was picked up by two domain kiters for a week or so, then was completely available.
There are a lot of names that expire every day. Maybe you don't want hearcon.com, lolmat.com, gotajet.com, gotomit.com or liewell.com (all available since two days ago), but hey, somebody once did for some reason. It's worth considering.
Admittedly, you want to avoid ambiguous sites with expired domains, since you often can't grab alternate spellings. True story: one of my friends is the founder of a startup called Flixor, and I was dumbfounded to discover one morning that TechCrunch had a story on Flikzor. With a Z and a freakin' K! People, people! So you may want to cover your bases as much as possible for the simple fact that names as scarce as they are.
I don't know a good site for searching through expired domains securely, though. Anyone have a suggestion?
Several hours on Instant Domain Search, eventually finding one that was expiring, slapping down $18 at GoDaddy, and waiting patiently for it to finally be released. That's how we got lalife.com and, just today, localgo.com for our upcoming site.
Okay, actually, we got LALife.com directly from GoDaddy a few months before they started auctioning off such domains. But localgo.com just flat-out expired, was picked up by two domain kiters for a week or so, then was completely available.
There are a lot of names that expire every day. Maybe you don't want hearcon.com, lolmat.com, gotajet.com, gotomit.com or liewell.com (all available since two days ago), but hey, somebody once did for some reason. It's worth considering.
Admittedly, you want to avoid ambiguous sites with expired domains, since you often can't grab alternate spellings. True story: one of my friends is the founder of a startup called Flixor, and I was dumbfounded to discover one morning that TechCrunch had a story on Flikzor. With a Z and a freakin' K! People, people! So you may want to cover your bases as much as possible for the simple fact that names as scarce as they are.
I don't know a good site for searching through expired domains securely, though. Anyone have a suggestion?