HNers,
Today is very hard with domain names :)
I searched for hundreds of variations without success. So I will be grateful if you could help.<p>About startup: In short - SaaS e-commerce platform.
Mix between Shopify, Chargify (great names!) and PayPal with social and mobile components.<p>Domain name wishes: short & cute (like those 2 above).
Requirement for domain: .com extension, domain is available or cheap :)<p>Thanks,
B-Scan
I named my company on the first day that I sat down to write an outline of the business plan. Having written my thoughts about what the business would be in Microsoft Word, I had to save the file to my desktop and name it. I gave no thought of the business name, I just named the doc with the first thing that came to me - a working title that I intended to change later. But the name never changed because it was unique and top of mind. It stuck.<p>Try tapping into a stream of consciousness (meaning, don't over think things) and write a list of words. Or, ask some relative who is not tech savvy to tell you the first words that come to their mind (my mom is good for this).<p>Lastly, in my second startup (circa 1999), we hired a naming consultant for big $$ and the one take away was: Brand names pretty much don't matter. Nike may have sounded dumb the first time people heard it, but folks remembered it AFTER they tried their shoes. Intel sounds like a spy organization. Microsoft sounds like something for scientists, yet it is a consumer brand now. The bottom line: Don't freak out to much on the name.
Try using <a href="http://impossibility.org/" rel="nofollow">http://impossibility.org/</a> - a domain name generator.<p>It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. There's some surprisingly good domains available from it.
UPDATE:<p>Thank you all for your comments. I tried all the methods/services.<p>Biggest luck I had with Wordoid. After few thousands of variations I came with 50 .com names.<p>When I tried they real availability it was about 30 free names. I guess that Wordoid just pings domains or have some long cache for whois. However, in sign of appreciation I used affiliate link.<p>So final name is: shopeful.com. I hope that "e" in the middle will be ok.
Having searched for mine (zookshop.com) for weeks, I sincerely wish you good luck.<p>Also, you will notice at some point that 99% of \d{1,4}shop.com is registered in China and parked. What's up with that?