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I'm looking for a good name & .com domain for a product for some time now. Just tried a new guess and the .com is available. I was quite enthusiastic about this option. Or so I thought...
It just so happens that the previous owner was a person that died from cancer couple of years ago and hosted some semi personal stuff there - judging from a quick read on web.archive.org, mostly promoted their books, but the topic of disease was present and books were somewhat related.
Apparently there was no one around them who would take care of the site and pay for the domain (or maybe there was, but they decided it was better not to). Related Facebook account is deleted, too. OTOH books are available on Amazon.
Now I don't feel like taking this domain would be the right move. Both emotionally and business wise.
Curious if you have any thoughts or maybe have seen some similar situations.
looking for a product name with matching .com domain. In this community I'm sure I don't need to report on how frustrating the endeavor.
There were many HN threads about naming products, domains availability etc, just to link a few I've found interesting:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874872 (2012, Before naming your startup, read this), - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863 (2015, Change Your Name by Paul Graham), - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485609 (2019, Name it, and They Will Come).
But curious about your take on a specific (sub)problem I've encountered. I come up with a single word name (not a real English word) with .com available, but alternative spellings taken. Spellings of a word that doesn't exist, mind you.
For example. My idea: reddit.com (khem). But both reddid.com and redit.com are taken. My thought process is to abandon such idea, if I can't secure (obvious) misspellings (typically this means about 1-3 additional domains), which are bound to happen rather frequently when the name is not an actual word.
This eliminates many interesting options, though.
What would be your take on that? Is just ignoring such "name neighbors" a viable approach? Especially curious as I'm not a native English speaker and I feel I may lack some of the intuitions here.
I know, I know - it doesn't matter, last time you checked reddit.com was fine, build your product, don't waste time on naming things that ultimately most likely will not need a name anyway, and if they do, the final name will not matter that much.
But in case you happen to have some other thoughts on that, I'm here, patiently waiting, as I'm trying to find my way out of this. :)