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Free available, memorable, short .com startup names

13 points by zeynalov 15y ago

It's already 10 days we search a name for our new startup. Brainstorming some names and selecting from available .com names gave us some good ones. We've already selected our name. Knowing how it's hard to find a Good-Short-Memorable-.com name, we decided to give other available good .com names to HN community. All of them available now: Knopod.com Babylum.com Rosenta.com Andua.com Luyla.com Ripura.com Lepra.com Terminly.com Risli.com Sopki.com Vikivu.com

diego 15y ago
Warning: lepra means leprosy in Spanish.
- nargiz 15y ago
  it's still a good memorable name
  - tawm 15y ago
    And in German.
aida 15y ago
lepra is a premium domain
- sagacity 15y ago
  Yes, taken since 2004 it seems.
jaequery 15y ago
just goes to show how hard domains are to come by these days
nreece 15y ago
If you don't have a prototype or MVP built yet, then I would suggest you to delay getting the domain name until you have a basic product ready. I wrote about it in a blog post - http://www.nilkanth.com/2011/12/22/dope-com/ http://www.nilkanth.com/2011/12/22/dope-com/
- zeynalov 15y ago
  Good post Ashutosh. Actually I didn't build MVP yet. But I would say, not after building a prototype or MVP but after ready prototype on paper or on your mind. Yes, it's not good dreaming all the day, losing your main concentration and naming your baby when you're in high school. But I think there is nothing bad naming your baby if your wife is already pregnant. After naming you're starting to think that you did 10% of your startup work and it starts to motivate you to go on. I am a designer founder, I founded 3 startups, I always build the product on a paper, design it, calculate the possible progress of the startup, than naming, buying the domain, branding, ui/ux design and hiring a dev to build my prototype.
bmelton 15y ago
I would totally take Babylum for a project I'm working on now. Edit: I misunderstood. Thanks for the list!
- sagacity 15y ago
  babylum.com - already gone, as of an hour ago or so.
  - bmelton 15y ago
    Yeah. I took it.
sagacity 15y ago
vikivu.com appears to have been taken about a month ago.

13 points by zeynalov 15y ago

diego 15y ago

Warning: lepra means leprosy in Spanish.

nargiz 15y ago
it's still a good memorable name
- tawm 15y ago
  And in German.

aida 15y ago

lepra is a premium domain

sagacity 15y ago
Yes, taken since 2004 it seems.

jaequery 15y ago

just goes to show how hard domains are to come by these days

nreece 15y ago

If you don't have a prototype or MVP built yet, then I would suggest you to delay getting the domain name until you have a basic product ready. I wrote about it in a blog post - http://www.nilkanth.com/2011/12/22/dope-com/ http://www.nilkanth.com/2011/12/22/dope-com/

zeynalov 15y ago
Good post Ashutosh. Actually I didn't build MVP yet. But I would say, not after building a prototype or MVP but after ready prototype on paper or on your mind. Yes, it's not good dreaming all the day, losing your main concentration and naming your baby when you're in high school. But I think there is nothing bad naming your baby if your wife is already pregnant. After naming you're starting to think that you did 10% of your startup work and it starts to motivate you to go on. I am a designer founder, I founded 3 startups, I always build the product on a paper, design it, calculate the possible progress of the startup, than naming, buying the domain, branding, ui/ux design and hiring a dev to build my prototype.

bmelton 15y ago

I would totally take Babylum for a project I'm working on now. Edit: I misunderstood. Thanks for the list!

sagacity 15y ago
babylum.com - already gone, as of an hour ago or so.
- bmelton 15y ago
  Yeah. I took it.

sagacity 15y ago

vikivu.com appears to have been taken about a month ago.