Dear HN,<p>looking for a product name with matching .com domain. In this community I'm sure I don't need to report on how frustrating the endeavor.<p>There were many HN threads about naming products, domains availability etc, just to link a few I've found interesting:<p>- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874872 (2012, Before naming your startup, read this),
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863 (2015, Change Your Name by Paul Graham),
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485609 (2019, Name it, and They Will Come).<p>But curious about your take on a specific (sub)problem I've encountered. I come up with a single word name (not a real English word) with .com available, but alternative spellings taken. Spellings of a word that doesn't exist, mind you.<p>For example. My idea: reddit.com (khem). But both reddid.com and redit.com are taken. My thought process is to abandon such idea, if I can't secure (obvious) misspellings (typically this means about 1-3 additional domains), which are bound to happen rather frequently when the name is not an actual word.<p>This eliminates many interesting options, though.<p>What would be your take on that? Is just ignoring such "name neighbors" a viable approach? Especially curious as I'm not a native English speaker and I feel I may lack some of the intuitions here.<p>I know, I know - it doesn't matter, last time you checked reddit.com was fine, build your product, don't waste time on naming things that ultimately most likely will not need a name anyway, and if they do, the final name will not matter that much.<p>But in case you happen to have some other thoughts on that, I'm here, patiently waiting, as I'm trying to find my way out of this. :)