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Ask HN: is foundrs.com a good domain name for my startup?
I had such great success with the feedback from HN before that I'll do it again: do you think foundrs.com is a good domain name for my startup? You may know us under our current name: fairsoftware.net. We allow people with startup ideas to find co-founders and offer them virtual stock-options, backed by a legally binding contract similar to the GPL, except it's for profit.
It's just that everyone keeps making fun of our .NET name, and also of the fact that people think we do software. We don't. So maybe a change of name is in order.
We came up with a few ideas, and one of them is foundrs.com. As you know it's hard to find any .COM name that is still available. This one was. We had other ideas that I won't share so I don't influence the discussion too much.
Thanks!
- maxdemarzi 17y agoFor what it's worth ($125 a year) founde.rs is available... on 101domains or any of the other international domain providers. Edited to say, having the full name with a foreign extension sounds better to me than eating a letter... YMMV
- joeld42 17y agoI like this suggestion.
- alain94040 17y agoApart from delicio.us, I can't think of any decent startup using that naming scheme. I may be wrong, but 99% of non super-geeky users don't understand this syntax and would not dare use it. Am I wrong?
- maxdemarzi 17y agoYou are correct... but super-geeky users = founders.
- vaksel 17y agosounds too dot com bubblish. Just do the usual ____founders. BlueFounders, WidgetFounders, FounderMix
- dylanz 17y agoI don't mind the missing 'e'. People still use Flickr.