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Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names? Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate bus

Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names? Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate businesses.

ehnto 6y ago
Definitely why there are so many .io or .co domains out there. Speaking personally. I would use my home country which I feel makes sense but it gets localized out of international search results whilst .co and .io have gotten a free pass for some reason.
marcus_holmes 6y ago
> Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names? Yes > Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate businesses. And No. Very no. There are lots of really good names out there that are being sat on, doing nothing. Anyone who's started a business can tell you of the infuriating days or weeks spent coming up with good names and then finding they're all being squatted, before settling for some nonsense made up name because "ffs I don't care any more, just hammer something into the keyboard that's available and we'll have that and get on with it"
- jobigoud 6y ago
  > can tell you of the infuriating days or weeks spent coming up with good names On the other hand it is quite fun to try to think about an original name that nobody else has thought of before. So yeah your days or weeks are in competition with people's years of doing this as a hobby.
  - marcus_holmes 6y ago
    Sure, but are they actually setting up a website for that domain, or is "thinking about an original name" the extent of their involvement? Not that I'm knocking that, if that's what floats your boat. It's just exasperating when you're actually trying to do something else and this gets in the way.
jfengel 6y ago
http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ is (I think mostly) a joke, but it implements the correct-horse-battery-staple solution to domain naming. The N one-word domains are long since taken, but there are N^2 two-word domains. They may not all make sense, but it presents a lot of opportunities, and they're "memorable" in that correct-horse-battery-staple way. I was a little struck that my first attempt came up with Otter And Frame -- OtterFrame.com is taken, but OtterAndFrame.com isn't. I'd be curious to know what fraction of that N^2 space is taken already. (It doubles to 2N^2 if you add the word "And" between them, though I guess the version without will always be more desirable.) OtterAndFrame.com is at least as good a name as Akiflow.com or Biyaki.com (two names dredged from YCombinator's summer class).

Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names? Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate businesses.

ehnto 6y ago

Definitely why there are so many .io or .co domains out there. Speaking personally. I would use my home country which I feel makes sense but it gets localized out of international search results whilst .co and .io have gotten a free pass for some reason.

marcus_holmes 6y ago

> Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names? Yes > Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate businesses. And No. Very no. There are lots of really good names out there that are being sat on, doing nothing. Anyone who's started a business can tell you of the infuriating days or weeks spent coming up with good names and then finding they're all being squatted, before settling for some nonsense made up name because "ffs I don't care any more, just hammer something into the keyboard that's available and we'll have that and get on with it"

jobigoud 6y ago
> can tell you of the infuriating days or weeks spent coming up with good names On the other hand it is quite fun to try to think about an original name that nobody else has thought of before. So yeah your days or weeks are in competition with people's years of doing this as a hobby.
- marcus_holmes 6y ago
  Sure, but are they actually setting up a website for that domain, or is "thinking about an original name" the extent of their involvement? Not that I'm knocking that, if that's what floats your boat. It's just exasperating when you're actually trying to do something else and this gets in the way.

jfengel 6y ago

http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ is (I think mostly) a joke, but it implements the correct-horse-battery-staple solution to domain naming. The N one-word domains are long since taken, but there are N^2 two-word domains. They may not all make sense, but it presents a lot of opportunities, and they're "memorable" in that correct-horse-battery-staple way. I was a little struck that my first attempt came up with Otter And Frame -- OtterFrame.com is taken, but OtterAndFrame.com isn't. I'd be curious to know what fraction of that N^2 space is taken already. (It doubles to 2N^2 if you add the word "And" between them, though I guess the version without will always be more desirable.) OtterAndFrame.com is at least as good a name as Akiflow.com or Biyaki.com (two names dredged from YCombinator's summer class).