First Names Make Great Brands!

Most of these are listed with a Buy Now price at Dan.com. Just type the name into your browser address bar and it will take you there. Some of  these would make a great url for your new AI chat bot.

Links to Buy It Now Prices at DAN.com

alphonsos
Alphonsos.com

ridona
Ridona.com

klarisa
Klarisa.com

jemalyn
Jemalyn.com

caryna
Caryna.com

timly
Timoy.com

engilbert
Engilbert.com

fantina
Fantina.com

jalien
Jalien.com

jedrick
Jedrick.com

bobana
Bobana.com

johnio
Johnio.com

kidada
Kidada.com

ridona
Edmona.com

melisya
Melisya.com

presly
Presly.com

rodly
Rodly.com

shouko
Shouko.com

joberto
Joberto.com

ednan
Ednan.com

Most of my domains are priced low to mid 4 figures.
I’m up for creative deals.
Like the names but not your niche? I can find you a great name for a reasonable price.
Lots more elsewhere in the blog or email me!

Looking for some perspective? What is a First Name Domain Worth?

One Domain Can Change Everything | NameCorp

Excellent summary of all the advantages to owning and building on a great domain name.
Read the full article: One Domain Can Change Everything

A Domain Name Is An  Asset.

Say that with me again, so you understand the difference between buying a service and an asset. A domain name is an asset.

  • A domain name is not a toy.
  • A domain name is not just a thing for the Interweb.
  • A domain name is not something everybody will automatically remember.

A domain name is a highly valuable piece of intellectual property that you need to focus on getting right.

  • A domain name is something your staff has to spell every day
  • A domain name is the face of your company email
  • A domain name is your home on the web.

Try To Get It Right The First Time!

Change Your Name
“If you have a US startup called X and you don’t have x.com, you should probably change your name.

The reason is not just that people can’t find you. For companies with mobile apps, especially, having the right domain name is not as critical as it used to be for getting users. The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness.
–Paul Graham 8, 2015

What I Learned Spending $1.5 Million on Sumo.com
“This is crazy for me. I used to be so against buying expensive domain names!”
– Noah Kagan Feb 16, 2017

How (and Why) We Purchased the Snappa.com Domain for $40,000
Since Snappa.com was taken, we registered Snappa.io. I mean, all the hip new startups were using .io right?

Brutal Honesty: The Developer CEO & Our Journey
So, in the end, we went with a terrible domain name – “teamworkpm.net”. Could it be worse?
Captain Hindsight says we should have called it GetTeamwork.com
The upgrade to Teamwork.com cost them $675k

How to Name Your Startup
“The domain name doesn’t matter.”
My current startup is named Buffer, but the domain name is bufferapp.com
–Written by Joel Gascoigne Jan 17, 2014
We acquired Buffer.com: Here is how and why we did it

(At a cost of what’s estimated to be $600k)
– Rodolphe DutelMar 10, 2015

There’s A Domain For That – Startup Domains For Sale

A selection of names acquired over the last six months. Hundreds of hours pouring over domain drop lists and navigating the auction sites so that you don’t have to. For more information or to make an offer, email me (If you don’t hear back it slipped into the spam folder – please try again).
More great names here and here! Contact form, or…
Links to Buy It Now Prices at DAN.com

expensly
Expenses! Expensly.com!

onyourmarket
OnYourMarket.com!

uddha
Calm, Headspace, Yoga! uddha.com!

txt2.com
We’re tired of apps. Text it to me! txt2.com

baconly
Does your company evoke the awesomeness of bacon? Baconly.com

malmu
The spirit of Scandanavia! Malmu.com

trppy.com
What a trip! Trppy.com

alaysia
The spirit of the East! Alaysia.com

MindTo
#BCI I just got my MindTo.com

PencilThisIn
Scheduling? Booking? PencilThisIn.com

Owlyn
Soft & Wise,  Owlyn.com

waterMyFlowers.com
Does your app WaterMyFlowers.com?

Enobu
Cute! Enobu.com

joque
Stylishly jock? Joque.com

whoevr
Hang out in my hologram with Whoevr.com

submixer
We are SUBMIXER.com!

vrcorder
The all-seeing VR recorder VRcorder.com

apprazer
Does your app appraise? Apprazer.com

disbot
Don’t mess with the Disbot.com

stuffidpayfor
Are you the reverse Ebay? StuffIdPayFor.com

pubto
Distributed publishing? PubTo.com!

updit
Level up! Updit.com

votified
Do make the web votable? Votified.com

phrum
Where’d you get it? Phrum.com!

Most of my domains are priced low to mid 4 figures.
I’m up for creative deals.
Like the names but not your niche? I can find you a great name for a reasonable price.
Lots more elsewhere in the blog or email me!

More Great Names For Startups

For more information or to make an offer, email me.
More great names here and here!   Contact form, or email me…
Links to Buy It Now Prices at DAN.com

carcoming.com
Does your startup pick me up? carcoming.com

audiotripping
Do you make guided audio tours? AudioTripping.com

cleverplans
Algorithms for getting it right the first time? CleverPlans.com

getvetted.com
Get Vetted! GetVetted.com

localbutton
Does your app find local awesomness? LocalButton.com LocalButtons.com

ircly
Building on the IRC channel? Ircly.com

happyfriending
HappyFriending.com

agingtests
Online brain-health diagnostics? AgingTests.com

ebellion.com
Online rabble rousing? ebellion.com

klozr
Marketing and sales funnel app? klozr.com

p2pcar
Wow! p2pcar.com

tastly
Food? Tastly.com

nettests
Save the teachers! Build NetTests.com

p2pbikes
Bike sharing! p2pbikes.com p2pbike.com

krazd
Krazd.com

Most of my domains are priced low to mid 4 figures.
I’m up for creative deals.
Like the names but not your niche? I can find you a great name for a reasonable price.
Lots more elsewhere in the blog or email me!

How To Start A Project | Autodidacts

I may be biased 😉 but it seems to me this infographic is missing the ‘look around for reasonably priced domains that match our project idea and save ourselves a whole lot of time’ step.   Here’s a few other things to consider…   With a better domain, are you more likely to invest time into your project? (Your domain should inspire you and give you confidence to talk about your project!) If you invest in a domain, you have skin in the game and what better nudge to ‘get it done’ than cash out of pocket? Apart from whether or not you build your project, will the domain you’ve invested in become an asset you could resell, that could even increase in value? Does a great domain make your project easier to sell later if you decide to move on?

Early in your project’s life, your domain is the clearest signal of how clever you are as an entrepreneur.

From Autodidacts.io (Well, of course, great content can help… at least in the short run.)

domainnoob-how-to-start-a-project

Moz on Domains, Uniregistry Sales, Myth of the Available Domain Name

Rand Fishkin, SEO expert-founder of Moz.com, reviewed choosing a domain name recently. If you’re about to launch a company the video provides an excellent approach to finding the right domain. Rand doesn’t discuss the costs of his various examples. You can bet, for example that Gusto.com cost ZenPayroll an easy quarter million when they rebranded last year (2015).

Here’s the list of acceptable domains that Rand comes up with in the video. For fun, lets have a look at what it might take to get one of these.
PastaLabs.com is taken. In fact it’s registered to Moz! It’s parked using Enom DNS servers.   PastaLab.com is owned by someone in Korea.
LandOfNoodles.com Congratulations, LandOfNoodles.com is available for registration fee! 7/26/16
MyPasta.com Is owned by the Campbell Soup company and forwards to Prego.com
PastaScience.com Hey, another Moz registration! About a year old. Again, parked with ENOM.
ThePenneIsMightier.com Registered to someone in LA who, considering they also have penneismightier.com, is probably starting a business.
PastaPerfected.com Hmm, not in the Whois database, but also not available? In transition?   PastaPerfect.com has a private registration and doesn’t resolve.
Gusto.com Discussed above. Can’t get anywhere near Gusto except for obscure new TLDs.
HandCut.com Forwards to a crystal glass company.

Well, we found one at least! Certainly it’s pronounceable. Rand liked this one. I’m not crazy about it.
But the point wasn’t to find a great domain, it was to demonstrate what to look for.

1) Make it brandable.
2) Make it pronounceable.
3) Make it as short as you possibly can, but no shorter.
4) Bias to .com.
5) Avoid names that infringe on another company or another organization’s existing trademark or could be confused with that trademark.
6) Make the domain name instantly intuitive.
7) Use broad keywords when sensible, but don’t stress keyword inclusion.
8) If your name isn’t available, it’s okay to append or modify it.

Uniregistry recently shared a list of domains and prices they sold over the last year or so for a total of $42 Million! Namebio published the list on their blog.

Recent unpublished comments to this blog remind me that a lot of people hate anyone who owns a domain they’re not using (let alone companies like Uniregistry that hold millions). These people are confused and this excellent article from Bill Sweetman might help them get clarity. Taken: The Myth of Domain Name Unavailability

More Brandable Domain Names – There’s a Domain For That!

Links to Buy It Now Prices at DAN.com
More great names here!
(Where a Twitter handle is mentioned, I’m happy to transfer it to you for free at the conclusion of a domain sale.)
Contact form, or email me…


Links to Buy It Now Prices at DAN.com

lucidcare.com
LucidCare.com @LucidCare

amusy
VR companion app? Vlovr.com

iLiky.com
iLiky.com

amusy
Amusy.com

eroticly.com
Eroticly.com

MarketTesters.com
MarketTesters.com @MarketTesters

weplant
What do we do? WePlant.com

iArty.com
iArty.com

gaymr
Refunds? Refundy.com @Refundy

BotMine.com
BotMine.com @BotMine

iMobl.com
iMobl.com

gaymr
Gay games? Gaymr.com

RSSES.com
RSSES.com

divup
Split the check! DivUp.com Now with DivApp.com!

netaphysical
Internet of things, you mean Netaphysical.com! @Netaphysical

denvr
Startup, app, blog, product, tv show? Denvr.com

appyending
Edgy game or…? AppyEnding.com @AppyEnding

indeepkimchi
In Deep Kimchi! InDeepKimchi.com

oaves
Because everyone loves Oaves!

smellbots
Does your hardware ‘smell’? Smellbots.com

agetests
Does your app or startup test for aging? AgingTests.com @AgingTests

bikedeliveries
Like Uber for deliveries, on bikes. BikeDeliveries.com Cool! @BikeDeliveries

imaky
Kids and making? iMaky.com!

sktrs
Skateboard brand! skrts.com!

Phoak
Pho social? Phoak music? Phoak.com!

wedesigned
Crowd-sourced design? WeDesigned.com

hobbying
World-class hobbyist destination domain Hobbying.com

appycamper
Camping app? appycamper.com @appycamper

CarComing.com
CarComing.com @CarComing

rsser
Clone your drive, your dog? clonu.com

Most of my domains are priced low to mid 4 figures.
Need a domain to run a market test? I’ll point the DNS to your test if you’ll share the data.
Are these domains an appropriate quality/price point, but not in your vertical? I can find you a domain.
Lots more elsewhere in the blog or email me!

iLiky.com WePlant.com CarComing.com Amusy.com Eroticly.com Boardly.com Refundy.com BotMine.com iMobl.com Gaymr.com RSSES.com DivUp.com Netaphysical.com Denvr.com AppyEnding.com Oaves.com SmellBots.com BikeDeliveries.com AgingTests.com iMaky.com   Phoak.com MarketTesters.com Rsser.com iArty.com WeDesigned.com Hobbying.com appycamper.com Swiply.com sktrs.com InDeepKimchi.com Klozr.com clonu.com clokt.com Vlovr.com LucidCare.com

 

Psyching Out a Domain Owner, and What Kevin Paid for Oink

Jason Goldberg is the founder and CEO of FAB. In this excerpt from an interview with Kevin Rose, Jason tells us how he was able to get Fab.com for a ‘low six figures’ and Kevin tells us what he paid for Oink.com.
[Update 6/16/17 From DNGeek.com]

  • Virtual Piggy Rebrands As Oink – Oink.com
    Virtual Piggy, a payments service aimed at minors rebranded as Oink  in late 2013 after buying the domain, trademarks, and social marks from Kevin Rose for $57,500.  Founder and CEO Jo Webber told TechCrunch that the reason was strategic:  “Piggy” sounded too infantile but “Oink” lets them retain some of the branding association with piggy banks while sounding more punchy in a way that will resonate better with the older end of the youth market –or so the company believes.

Click arrow to play audio. Psyching Out a Domain Horder
Update 12/6/16 Pepo, Jason Goldberg’s social media app, raises $2.35M from his old Fab.com backers