{"id":1318,"date":"2011-08-28T00:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-03-30T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:07:19","slug":"kevin-rose-on-naming-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/kevin-rose-on-naming-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rose on Naming Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update 12\/12\/11 Hey @KevinRose &amp; @OinkApp people. My social media experiment doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t notice, or you didn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtsalad.com\/2011\/05\/14\/random-episode-14-or-15\/\">Glenn McElhose&#8217;s<\/a> \u00a0 <a title=\"Random Episode 15 excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/23738735\">Random Episode 15<\/a> with Kevin Rose and Tim Ferris which was shot mid May 2011. At around the 27 minute mark, Kevin begins to discuss the difficulty he&#8217;s having naming a new company. (HatTip to <a title=\"Domain Shane\" href=\"http:\/\/domainshane.com\" target=\"_blank\">DomainShane<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Click arrow to play audio) <a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/media\/kevinRoseDomains.mp3\">&#8220;Dude, this has been my hell for the last month and a half.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/23738735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/media\/kevinRoseDomains.jpg\" alt=\"kevinRoseDomains\" width=\"636\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Ferris &amp; Kevin Rose Discuss Naming Your Website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Notes and quotes.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a combination iphone app slash destination site, meaning that there will actually be a dot com destination for it as well.<br \/>\nI want it to be short, like 4, 5, 6 characters.<br \/>\nGood names now are like, $100k.<br \/>\nFred Wilson&#8217;s post about what you should spend on a great domain name. (&#8216;<a title=\"Fred Wilson on buying a domain name.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2011\/04\/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name.html\" target=\"_blank\">Finding and Buying a Domain Name<\/a>&#8216;)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to find something for around 20(k), trying to go on the cheap, crazy as (that sounds $20k being cheap!).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve spent a lot of time doing this, so if you&#8217;re looking for a domain name, I&#8217;ll be glad to share.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Sedo.com Advanced search\" href=\"https:\/\/sedo.com\/search\/searchresult.php4?tracked=&amp;partnerid=&amp;language=us\" target=\"_blank\">Sedo.com<\/a> &gt; Advanced Search &gt; Dot com &gt; 5 characters max &gt;Order search results by bid (previously declined offers- weeds out low interest domains)<br \/>\nGreat names that end in mo, be, ly, es or start with lo. Look for them on GoDaddy.<br \/>\n<a title=\"GoDaddy Auctions\" href=\"https:\/\/auctions.godaddy.com\/trpHome.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">GoDaddy.com<\/a> Auctions &gt; Advanced Search (right hand panel) &gt; # of bids- none &gt; Keywords- End with ly (for example) &gt; Characters- Exactly 5 no dashes no numbers (for example) &gt; Type- Select All &gt; \u00a0 Extension .com<br \/>\nKevin zips by discussing &#8216;getting them to agree on price&#8217;.<br \/>\nNow you have to do a <a title=\"Trademark search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/trademarks\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">trademark search<\/a> (Search Marks)<br \/>\nNow you have to check to see whether the iPhone app is available. (I like <a title=\"uQuery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uquery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">uQuery<\/a> for this).<br \/>\nEasily understood in a crowded bar and easy to spell. Obvious spelling.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll run a name by someone as though it already is an app or site, &#8220;Dude, have you tried &#8212;, it&#8217;s awesome. And they&#8217;ll be like, Oh, what&#8217;s that? Well what did you think it was?&#8221; To gauge other people&#8217;s response to how the name might sound, even though you don&#8217;t own the name.<br \/>\nKevin suggests that if you have a great domain that fits the bill, (though he doesn&#8217;t mention the niche the product is in) you can send him your suggestion using the Twitter hashtag #krdomain. However, this was shot in May of 2011 so we can probably assume he&#8217;s already found it.<\/p>\n<p>Update 9\/9\/11 Was it Oink.com? Is that what Kevin found? It appears to be a mobile voting and ranking app. Thoughts?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Kevin Rose Tweets Oink.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/media\/kroseOink.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Rose Tweets Oink.com\" width=\"472\" height=\"82\" \/><br \/>\nAlso, Kevin&#8217;s video interview site got a facelift and a new domain. Used to be <a title=\"Kevin Rose's Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/foundat.io\/n\">Foundat.io\/n<\/a> is now <a title=\"Kevin Rose's Foundation.bz\" href=\"http:\/\/Foundation.bz\">Foundation.bz<\/a><br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t sure so Googled it. &#8220;Did you mean: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=30&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;biw=1397&amp;bih=692&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=uWVqTsLiCObViALd2ZCkDg&amp;ved=0CEUQBSgA&amp;q=.biz+domain&amp;spell=1\">.<strong><em>biz<\/em><\/strong> domain<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nBZ is the country code for Belize.  \u00a0 I guess the .Biz was taken!<br \/>\nJust spotted 12\/2\/11 Now <a title=\"Kevin Rose's Foundation.kr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foundation.kr\">Foundation.kr<\/a>! I guess as in Kevin Rose!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 12\/12\/11 Hey @KevinRose &amp; @OinkApp people. My social media experiment doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t notice, or you didn&#8217;t care. From Glenn McElhose&#8217;s \u00a0 Random Episode &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/kevin-rose-on-naming-websites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kevin Rose on Naming Websites&#8221;<\/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":[304,506,127,421],"tags":[427,426,429,227,425,293,431,428,430],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-domain-stories","category-domains-are-brands-domaining","category-brandable-domains-2","tag-advanced-search","tag-finding-a-good-domain-name","tag-godaddy-auction","tag-kevin-rose","tag-naming-your-app","tag-naming-your-startup","tag-random-show","tag-sedo-com","tag-tim-ferris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}