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Ask HN: Name my e-commerce startup
HNers,
Today is very hard with domain names :)
I searched for hundreds of variations without success. So I will be grateful if you could help.
About startup: In short - SaaS e-commerce platform.
Mix between Shopify, Chargify (great names!) and PayPal with social and mobile components.
Domain name wishes: short & cute (like those 2 above).
Requirement for domain: .com extension, domain is available or cheap :)
Thanks,
B-Scan
- christophe971 16y agoHaving searched for mine (zookshop.com) for weeks, I sincerely wish you good luck. Also, you will notice at some point that 99% of \d{1,4}shop.com is registered in China and parked. What's up with that?
- B-Scan 16y agoYeah, I already saw many parked domains like that :( Thx. Btw ZookShop looks nice!
- weirdcat 16y agoHave you tried http://wordoid.com http://wordoid.com?
- patrickk 16y agoTry using http://impossibility.org/ http://impossibility.org/ - a domain name generator. It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. There's some surprisingly good domains available from it.
- Jinyoung 16y agoIt's a little more complex but more powerful. http://lingzini.com/ http://lingzini.com/
- BOTV 16y agocontact carlton at buy on tv dot com if you are in North America and this is a serious endeavor.
- adrianwaj 16y agotransactt.com pockettrip.com cashmatt.com wellwallet.com popwol.com (popular wallet) dolwol.com groovepay.com stashfit.com traypay.com cashelli.com cashpoke.com paypoke.com cashspoke.com pocketpoke.com wolstreet.com
- B-Scan 16y agoThank you for concrete names! It's appreciated. My favs from here are groovepay.com and cashelli.com. But main focus of my startup are shops (sorry, you couldn't know that).
- printerjam 16y agoI named my company on the first day that I sat down to write an outline of the business plan. Having written my thoughts about what the business would be in Microsoft Word, I had to save the file to my desktop and name it. I gave no thought of the business name, I just named the doc with the first thing that came to me - a working title that I intended to change later. But the name never changed because it was unique and top of mind. It stuck. Try tapping into a stream of consciousness (meaning, don't over think things) and write a list of words. Or, ask some relative who is not tech savvy to tell you the first words that come to their mind (my mom is good for this). Lastly, in my second startup (circa 1999), we hired a naming consultant for big $$ and the one take away was: Brand names pretty much don't matter. Nike may have sounded dumb the first time people heard it, but folks remembered it AFTER they tried their shoes. Intel sounds like a spy organization. Microsoft sounds like something for scientists, yet it is a consumer brand now. The bottom line: Don't freak out to much on the name.
- B-Scan 16y agoI made something like that also, but the problem is my name is local. I have e-commerce.ccTLD/e-store.ccTLD meaning in my language. That is great, but I looking at global name for my biz. I like the bottom line, the product and all around it (sales, marketing) is what is important. Thanks, B-Scan
- B-Scan 16y agoUPDATE: Thank you all for your comments. I tried all the methods/services. Biggest luck I had with Wordoid. After few thousands of variations I came with 50 .com names. When I tried they real availability it was about 30 free names. I guess that Wordoid just pings domains or have some long cache for whois. However, in sign of appreciation I used affiliate link. So final name is: shopeful.com. I hope that "e" in the middle will be ok.
- adrianwaj 16y agoI prefer shopinella (or shoppinella) - or shopinelli