{"id":1116,"date":"2011-02-24T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:20:08","slug":"crowdnamer-com-or-is-it-crowdname-crowdnaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/crowdnamer-com-or-is-it-crowdname-crowdnaming\/","title":{"rendered":"CrowdNamer.com, or is it CrowdName… CrowdNaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update 12\/10\/14 Just heard about someone who’s doing this. Wonder how much better they’d do with a great name of their own? Dockname.com ]<\/a><\/p>\n

[Update. This is ready to test NOW. If you are looking for a name for your startup (or a better name) I will hand pick a posse of knowledgeable domain and branding professionals, and in a private, invite only chatroom, we will post our finds and suggestions. You only need to feel comfortable explaining clearly what you’re looking for in a name.]<\/p>\n

Probably the main motivation for getting into domain names, at the time (about 3 years ago), was to scratch up some extra cash in order to self-fund a startup. I’d just sold one of the 4 domains I owned for more than I earn in a couple of months at work. “Really, could it be this easy?” Well, it’s not. Or hasn’t been. I used that money to buy a couple of hundred domains. Most of them were bad choices- experiments around keywords where there might be traffic (but not cybersquatting). I was trying to think outside the box, and indeed that’s about all there is left to think about when it comes to domains, as I’m sure most of you know.<\/p>\n

Anyhow… Tough to start something without any capital, especially when you’re not a developer. But one of the great things about domains is how they can ‘lock in’ an idea. It’s not just<\/strong> an idea if you have the domain name as well!<\/p>\n

CrowdNamer.com, CrowdNamers, or is it CrowdName.com. CrowdNaming.com? (Either way I’ve got it covered but I think CrowdNamer is the one). The idea starts out pretty straight forwardly. Get feedback from the crowd on choosing a name for your business. Let the wisdom of crowds help you name your company and find a domain for it. Along the way domainers might suggest one of their names, with a price. The crowd might help you find out who owns that Twitter handle someone is sitting on. They might help determine a fair price for a domain.<\/p>\n

I’d really appreciate any feedback you have about the idea. Which of the three domains do you think makes a better brand? What do you think the minimum viable product that would provide enough real value to get started might be? Do you think reputation in a community would be enough to drive participation? Do you think a business model could be built around taking a small percentage of sales between domain sellers and buyers?<\/p>\n

Are you my CTO?<\/p>\n

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[Update 12\/10\/14 Just heard about someone who’s doing this. Wonder how much better they’d do with a great name of their own? Dockname.com ] [Update. This is ready to test NOW. If you are looking for a name for your startup (or a better name) I will hand pick a posse of knowledgeable domain and … Continue reading “CrowdNamer.com, or is it CrowdName… CrowdNaming?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,145],"tags":[155,293,92,381],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains-are-brands-domaining","category-project-domain-names","tag-branding","tag-naming-your-startup","tag-startups","tag-wisdom-of-crowds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}