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I'm Giving Away Domain Names

11 points by superhelix 18y ago

superhelix 18y ago
I've got a few pretty cool domain names. I'll give them away, to you, if your idea is good for what you want to do with it. This is also an interesting experiment in how people think about intellectual property vs. execution in the startup world.
- blogimus 18y ago
  I think a number of us would agree that good domain names help, they lend something that is easy to remember, like a jingle, and help with SEO, but the Internet is full of successful businesses with not terribly cool names. Take NewEgg. Is that from Egghead? They say not (probably for legal reasons) but there is nothing special about their name until they made it a brand. If you product is compelling enough, you could call it polished turd and it would be a success. Can anyone here come up with their favorite successful business with a crummy name?
  - technoguyrob 18y ago
    I've always thought "Yahoo" was pretty bad. After all, the word traditionally means some uncivilized hooligan. But look where they are, now. In any case, I think it's not so much that the name matters, but if you have a good product that people hear about frequently, the name simply becomes a few phonemes associated with that company and loses all other meaning. That's why my friends Kimmo, America, and Pooja used to have names that sounded ridiculous to me, but now the names almost seem natural as labels.
    - superhelix 18y ago
      Totally. Although, it's kinda fun to say names like Flickr, Twitter, and Reddit.
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xirium 18y ago
snufflebug.com would be ideal for a bug tracking website.
- axod 18y ago
  So would about 1,000 other domain names.
  - xirium 18y ago
    Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.
    - slater 18y ago
      bugsear.ch :D
      - xirium 18y ago
        Alright. Name one that is a .com
        axod 18y ago
        Are you seriously saying you think 'snufflebug' is the only one? Get a dictionary to generate random words like 'snuffle' and add bug on the end. There will be a few hundred of those .com's not taken for a start.
        xirium 18y ago
        While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word is similar to both snafu ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html ) and muffle; going from a very bad situation to greatly reducing unwanted side-effects. I suppose you could choose mufflebug.com but would either of us thought of it if we hadn't seen snufflebug.com?

11 points by superhelix 18y ago

I've got a few pretty cool domain names. I'll give them away, to you, if your idea is good for what you want to do with it. This is also an interesting experiment in how people think about intellectual property vs. execution in the startup world.

blogimus 18y ago
I think a number of us would agree that good domain names help, they lend something that is easy to remember, like a jingle, and help with SEO, but the Internet is full of successful businesses with not terribly cool names. Take NewEgg. Is that from Egghead? They say not (probably for legal reasons) but there is nothing special about their name until they made it a brand. If you product is compelling enough, you could call it polished turd and it would be a success. Can anyone here come up with their favorite successful business with a crummy name?
- technoguyrob 18y ago
  I've always thought "Yahoo" was pretty bad. After all, the word traditionally means some uncivilized hooligan. But look where they are, now. In any case, I think it's not so much that the name matters, but if you have a good product that people hear about frequently, the name simply becomes a few phonemes associated with that company and loses all other meaning. That's why my friends Kimmo, America, and Pooja used to have names that sounded ridiculous to me, but now the names almost seem natural as labels.
  - superhelix 18y ago
    Totally. Although, it's kinda fun to say names like Flickr, Twitter, and Reddit.
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xirium 18y ago

snufflebug.com would be ideal for a bug tracking website.

axod 18y ago
So would about 1,000 other domain names.
- xirium 18y ago
  Alright. Name one that isn't already taken.
  - slater 18y ago
    bugsear.ch :D
    - xirium 18y ago
      Alright. Name one that is a .com
      - axod 18y ago
        Are you seriously saying you think 'snufflebug' is the only one? Get a dictionary to generate random words like 'snuffle' and add bug on the end. There will be a few hundred of those .com's not taken for a start.
        xirium 18y ago
        While it is possible to find <foo>bug.com or even snuffle<foo>bug.com you are unlikely to find <foo> which is better than snuffle and is also available. Indeed, I'm becoming quite partial to snuffle because the word is similar to both snafu ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html ) and muffle; going from a very bad situation to greatly reducing unwanted side-effects. I suppose you could choose mufflebug.com but would either of us thought of it if we hadn't seen snufflebug.com?