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Category Archives: Domaining

Leah Busque – How RunMyErrand Became TaskRabbit

Sunday, June 1, 2014

From the always excellent Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series at Stanford, this excerpt from a recent talk by Leah Busque describes how RunMyErrand.com became Taskrabbit.com. We came up with hundreds and hundreds of names, so many names, it was such a grueling exercise. We had naming parties at our house, an we brought our friends over, […]

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AngryGermanKid.com

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Wow! Look what happened!    

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Coming Soon To A Valley Near You?

Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Douchebag Awards!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Wouldn’t this be awesome! Problem is most of the media sites that would qualify as arbiters have a douché quality of their own. DouchebagAwards.com

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Branding With Available Domains – An Incubator

Monday, January 16, 2012

I recently reached out to a popular podcaster (Brandon from Automate My Small Business, awesome podcast!) when I discovered a valuable keyword domain dropping in his niche. We were able to acquire the domain in auction. I hope to blog in the future about our experiments to discover how best to put it to work. […]

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How To Find A Killer Available Domain Name – Code School

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Coding is being called ‘the new literacy’. If you love to code, think you can teach it, and have a twist on how to do it better, let’s get started. First, you’ll need a name.

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Jack Dorsey on Naming Twitter & Square

Monday, October 17, 2011

Jack Dorsey talks with All Things D’s Kara Swisher about inventing Twitter and later, Square

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Re-Branding Walk-Through, Sean Harper of FeeFighters Mixergy Interview

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I love Mixergy and Andrew Warner’s interviews. Over the last few years I’ve listened to Andrew interview hundreds of startup entrepreneurs. I’m sharing this particular interview because it’s covers my favorite territory – domains and naming your company. You can find this interview, a transcript, and an audio version at Mixergy. Sean Harper kept hearing […]

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Kevin Rose on Naming Websites

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Update 12/12/11 Hey @KevinRose & @OinkApp people. My social media experiment doesn’t seem to be working. I noticed Oinck.com in the GoDaddy drop a few weeks ago and picked it up for you. I tweeted you a couple times but, well, either you didn’t notice, or you didn’t care. From Glenn McElhose’s  Random Episode 15 […]

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How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) ConAcademy.com

Monday, April 18, 2011

But why ConAcademy.com?
According to the Whois info, ConAcademy.com was registered October 28, 2010. That’s only a few weeks after Google announced a $2M prize to Khan Academy as part of their Project 10^100 and about a month and half after Sal’s Fortune article.

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