Brandable Domain Names – There’s A Domain For That!

For more information or to make an offer please email me.   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

FixIt.Tv
FixIt.Tv @FixItTv
GroopReads.com
Read it together! GroupReads.com @GroupReads

 

Swipd.com
I ‘Swipd’ it! Swipd.com @Swipd

yowio
Yowio.com @Yowio

SolarPowder
SolarPowder.com @SolarPowderCom

osoyo
Osoyo.com @OsoyoCom

iuzit
Do you use it? iuzit.com @iuzit

Killer Web App
KillerWebApp.com @KillerWebApp

WeedApp
Rentome.com

NFC Coupons
NFCcoupons.com @NFCcoupons

Lucid Streaming
LucidStreaming.com @LucidStreaming

appanese
Is your startup a Japan related app? appanese.com @appanese

iSpyTv
iSpy.Tv @iSpy_Tv

NFC Systems
Nice, corporate-quality near field communication domain. NFCSystems.com @NFCSystems

appets
Oh, like an app for pets? appets.com @appets

heyto.com
Send them a HeyTo! Heyto.com @HeyToCom

OneTapp
Mobile sharing app? OneTapp.com @OneTapp

Typly
Type? Fonts? Typly.com @Typly

louzy.com
Louzy.com How was the service? @LouzyCom

yayno.com
Yayno.com Yay, or no? Make up your mind! @YAYNO

ichrg
Charging station startup? iChrg.com @iChrgCom

Burnly.com
Calories? Burning Man? Burnly.com @BurnlyCom

Share My Bike
ShareMyBike.com ShareMyBicycle.com @ShareMyBike

Hapium
Did your company discover Hapium.com? @Hapium

HugTo
Down and out? Send them a HugTo.com! @HugToCom

CodeFounder.com
Building an SaaS that matches coders and founders? CodeFounder.com @Code_Founder

Most of these 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!

FixIt.Tv Swipd.com iuzit.com KillerWebApp.com WeedApp.com Burnly.com NFCCoupons.com Stokt.com HugTo.com LucidStreaming.com Appanese.com NFCSystems.com Appets.com HeyTo.com OneTapp.com Typly.com Louzy.com Yayno.com Affly.com iChrg.com Filterly.com Bendr.com Givly.com Fukrz.com ShareMyBike.com Hapium.com LePetitOiseau.com   GetLA.com CodeFounder.com iSpy.Tv GroupReads.com

Marijuana Domain Names

Brand your pot startup.
For more information or to make an offer please email me. Contact form, or email me…

 

shrume
Brand your CBD/edibles! Gumys.com

shrume
SHRUME! Shrume.com

potinc.com
PotInc.com

kushup
Kushup.com & Kushups.com

weedapp
WeedApp.com & PotApp.com

potrunner
Do you deliver? PotRunner.com PotRunners.com

pot farm tours
PotFarmTours.com

potbeers
PotBeers.com

growingtv
Growing.tv

weedcider.com
WeedCider.com

backyardpot.com
Teach me how! BackyardPot.com

howhighami
Let’s build an app! HowHighAmI.com

potcider
PotCider.com

okpot.com
It’s too strong! Get me some OkPot.com

 

Also: CaliforniaPotTour/s.com HumboldtCannabus.com
CAWeedLawyer.com Buy Now $999

How To Name Your Company | Startup Podcast

Are you following the excellent new  Alex Blumberg podcast series, Startup? Alex is documenting the evolution of his new podcasting company and in this episode we hear all about naming your company. If you’re new to naming this is a great introduction. Alex and Matt eventually settle on a name, Gimlet,   suggested to them by the folks at Lexicon Branding who agreed to help despite there being no budget. Alex alludes to the normally hefty fee for these naming services but doesn’t mention a number. I would suggest that it would normally cost $50-75k at least, to hire someone like Lexicon. [For reference, see my 2010 post, Naming Names at 75k a Pop] Interesting to me that they meet at the NY Athletic club… members only… no jeans etc. I think that a lot of what you’re buying from a high-end branding firm is the feeling that you’ve entered an exclusive club where an elite force of genius wordists conspire to generate a magic spell that will launch your company into the zeitgeist. At the end of the day, if having spent $100k you feel like you got a great name and everyone is more or less happy with it. Maybe it was worth it.

But if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you were forwarded here by typing a name you’re researching into your browser bar. The takeaway is that both you, and I, someone who has been naming/domaining since 2008, agree that that name is valuable. How valuable? My under-the-radar techniques for researching and acquiring great names for good prices means that most of mine are for sale in the lower to mid 4 figure range. Less than you’d probably pay for a day in the office of a high-end naming firm.

Or you can keep looking!
Click arrow to play audio. South Park Naming Your Startup

 

The Social Business Answer To Getting The Domain You Want

 

Jason Calacanis interviews Jon Ferrara
Jason Calacanis interviews Jon Ferrara This Week In Startups #189

After he and his partner sold their bootstrapped company, Goldmine, for close to $100MM, Jon Ferarra took 8 years off to raise kids. Now he’s back with a new startup called Nimble. It’s an all digital CRM platform with a thick layer of ‘social’. A single seat is free so check it out. Jason expertly extracts in story and detail, the history of Goldmine and Jon’s plans for Nimble. It was refreshing to see a founder with some grey hair for a change and encouraging to hear him liken building his company to a guy building a project car in the garage. I was fortunate to catch Jason’s eye in the chatroom with a direct question about Jon’s domain. Here’s how he got Nimble.com.
Click arrow to play audio. Jon Ferraro on getting Nimble.com

Why So Quiet?

I’m still here. Still have a few hundred what I feel are awesome names for sale. Others I’m getting closer to being able to develop myself. I sell a handful a year. Some of the names on this blog have sold. I keep hoping one will turn into a Unicorn. But a few things have happened that have caused me to pull energy out of domaining.

I have absolutely no interest in the new gtlds. None.
It seems to me the market has gotten a lot tighter over the last year. It’s harder and harder to pick up a decent dot com using my previous methods. The wholesale prices I’m seeing being paid for crap domains makes me feel like a handful of players with deep pockets and clever bots are intent in owning the entire domain space (though Chinese domain investors are certainly adding to the froth).
But what led me to cut back drastically on my domaining is that Godaddy quit displaying closing prices on domains in my Watching List!   It started in March. A Godaddy Twitter response said it was due to the ‘quiet period’ around the IPO. Then the IPO ended.

If I spend an hour combing through thousands of domains to find a handful that are interesting, shouldn’t the platform reward me by allowing me to confirm my hunches? Or conversely, If Godaddy doesn’t value my time on their platform enough to even share price data on the domains I decide to watch, what does it say about their attitude towards me, their loyal customer?

I would guess that a new manager took over the auctions at Godaddy after the IPO and decided that too many domains were slipping through their fingers for $12. And so decided to pressure users to make bids in order to see results. That’s what it felt like and that’s low!
And then they bought Afternic! Plunging head first into the domain resale business. Yuck!
How long do you think it will be before they start warehousing drops and putting premium pricing on those?

Godaddy was the last bastion of the fair shake for the little guy when it came to domains. But the lure of   just a little more profit seems to have dragged them into the slime with all the rest.

Leah Busque – How RunMyErrand Became TaskRabbit

Leah Busque

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, and we had pizza and beer, and we’re like,   ‘Come up with names!’.

Click arrow to play audio. Leah Busque – Naming TaskRabbit