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I don't know why this is the top comment but: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

• brudgers 11y ago
  The "top remark" in Graham's remarks: If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name. That's not the case here. The advice on changing names is narrow. The easy part of a future name change, picking a new name has been done. The hard part, getting the domain is also done. The bad part, opportunity cost, can be avoided until the company is big enough that there are staff to handle the name change as a normal part of their collateral duties. The description of "playing house" in Before the Startup [1] is sort of implied in the question. As they say, " All happy companies are happy in their own way." The details matter both in Graham's essays and in the applicability of any action for any particular startup. [1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html