Just for an anecdote that somewhat differs with the popular sentiment here: Thumbtack paid 5-figures for the domain (thumbtack.com) on seed funding long before

Just for an anecdote that somewhat differs with the popular sentiment here: Thumbtack paid 5-figures for the domain (thumbtack.com) on seed funding long before any traction. There is no way to prove whether or not we would have been as successful with a random domain, but I think in the early days it helped make us seem more established to the non-tech savvy user (which was and still is the majority of the users) than we were at the time. I think if your users are more tech savvy it doesn't matter as much, but for "consumer brand" types of things, I think if your name is good, and your name and domain name match, that will be noticed and will make you appear more reputable.