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Having the actual .com domain for your business signalise quality and authenticity, difficult to imagine Amazon having getamazon.com. That being said, I also s

Having the actual .com domain for your business signalise quality and authenticity, difficult to imagine Amazon having getamazon.com. That being said, I also spend many (good hours) dreaming away while buying all sorts of domain names for my fictitious startups. I found that when using the startup niche as suffix or prefix, the domain is sometimes available. Had plenty of luck buying "git-what-ever".com domains, like git18n.com (though I am not sure how clever that naming really is).

tspike 4y ago
Facebook used to be thefacebook.com. It only changed after they were already successful.
- fndex 4y ago
  But Facebook was actually called theFacebook back then, so not sure if this is a valid comparison.
runjake 4y ago
Step 1: Obtain gethotdogs.com Step 2: Make billions. Step 3: Buy hotdogs.com with your massive amounts of VC funds^W^Wcash. This is what Facebook (thefacebook.com), Dropbox (getdropbox.com), etc did.
- johndough 4y ago
  Counterpoint 1: Steam could not buy steam.com. Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Steam hasn't been really slowed down by not having steam.com however - even Valve itself doesn't have valve.com Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.
    - jonwinstanley 4y ago
      Crazy that the owners of steam.com and valve.com haven't sold. It's pretty obvious who they should sell to, they just need to agree on a price.
  - xmprt 4y ago
    Valve isn't buying steam.com because they don't want to, not because they can't. > Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company Anyone sitting on steam.com right now, thinking that Valve is more likely to buy it tomorrow than they are today is delusional. Domain names and TLDs are becoming less relevant day by day and especially with Valve/Steam's computer savvy, gamer userbase, I don't think they really need steam.com. It could be helpful but if they've already decided they don't want it today then they probably won't change their minds tomorrow.
  - slavik81 4y ago
    The steam URL is kind of whimsical. I quite enjoyed when Stardock created their competing service in the same vein: Valve : Steam : steampowered.com Stardock : Impulse : impulsedriven.com
    - efreak 4y ago
      Steam has steampowered.com and steamcommunity.com
- nwiswell 4y ago
  This only works if you are trying to go hyperscale. Most side projects do not qualify.
nicwolff 4y ago
Do only us old farts remember the canonical example of having to buy your .com after you've made it very valuable? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-altavista-domain/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-...
- bombcar 4y ago
  I remember altavista.digital.com from back when people thought subdomains were really going to matter - but eventually they went away and Google took over. Ha! The current owners still have altavista.digital.com - it has some history thing.
durpleDrank 4y ago
steampowered.com

tspike 4y ago

Facebook used to be thefacebook.com. It only changed after they were already successful.

fndex 4y ago
But Facebook was actually called theFacebook back then, so not sure if this is a valid comparison.

runjake 4y ago

Step 1: Obtain gethotdogs.com Step 2: Make billions. Step 3: Buy hotdogs.com with your massive amounts of VC funds^W^Wcash. This is what Facebook (thefacebook.com), Dropbox (getdropbox.com), etc did.

johndough 4y ago
Counterpoint 1: Steam could not buy steam.com. Counterpoint 2: Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Steam hasn't been really slowed down by not having steam.com however - even Valve itself doesn't have valve.com Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.
  - jonwinstanley 4y ago
    Crazy that the owners of steam.com and valve.com haven't sold. It's pretty obvious who they should sell to, they just need to agree on a price.
- xmprt 4y ago
  Valve isn't buying steam.com because they don't want to, not because they can't. > Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company Anyone sitting on steam.com right now, thinking that Valve is more likely to buy it tomorrow than they are today is delusional. Domain names and TLDs are becoming less relevant day by day and especially with Valve/Steam's computer savvy, gamer userbase, I don't think they really need steam.com. It could be helpful but if they've already decided they don't want it today then they probably won't change their minds tomorrow.
- slavik81 4y ago
  The steam URL is kind of whimsical. I quite enjoyed when Stardock created their competing service in the same vein: Valve : Steam : steampowered.com Stardock : Impulse : impulsedriven.com
  - efreak 4y ago
    Steam has steampowered.com and steamcommunity.com
nwiswell 4y ago
This only works if you are trying to go hyperscale. Most side projects do not qualify.

nicwolff 4y ago

Do only us old farts remember the canonical example of having to buy your .com after you've made it very valuable? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-altavista-domain/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-...

bombcar 4y ago
I remember altavista.digital.com from back when people thought subdomains were really going to matter - but eventually they went away and Google took over. Ha! The current owners still have altavista.digital.com - it has some history thing.

durpleDrank 4y ago

steampowered.com