List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup

http://www.kevinohashi.com/17/04/2011/other-24000-available-brandables-com-domains-full-list

by ohashi • 15 years ago

43 32 15 years ago

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ohashi12• 15 years ago

Feedback welcome :) this list is bigger and better than the last one

fragsworth• 15 years ago

Some wealthy jerk will probably register all of these.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

Why I posted it here instead of WealthyJerks.com. Go find something you like and tell anyone you know looking now before they see it.

ahi• 15 years ago

WealthyJerks.com is available.

TillE• 15 years ago

You picked out some good ones, but skimming through the list, I don't see many others that catch my eye. A lot that sound vaguely Turkish.

Probably some good Linux distro names in there, though.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

A lot sounded Japanese to me.

cincinnatus2• 15 years ago

I think it will have a lot to do with the knowledge of the speaker. I saw lots of nihongo looking stuff, plenty of swahili and polynesian looking things too.

Edit: Though it all starts to blur together after the first 10,000 :-)

rhizome• 15 years ago

I don't know if these qualify as brand names so much as 4-5 character alphabetic permutations run through a pronouncability filter.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

Sounds like the technical definition of brandable :)

biot• 15 years ago

Though I'm not sure I'd want my brand associated with retud.com. :)

d0m• 15 years ago

huroi !

cincinnatus2• 15 years ago

Why are there none that start with v,w,x,y,z? Plenty of perfectly pronounceable strings should exist.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

I removed a lot of garbage. Some exist, but the relative proportion wasn't good enough. There had to be cuts otherwise it would just be 26^5 combos.

dgreensp• 15 years ago

Watch out world, here comes sloiw.com!

Stuk2• 15 years ago

If there's nothing here that is satisfactory, then it's quite easy to generate random pronounceable words, just alternate between vowels and consonants. As an example: https://github.com/Stuk/generate-words

ohashi12• 15 years ago

I started out with something similar to this, but randomly playing combinations created a lot of garbage relative of things that sounded pronounceable. A lot of letters are simply unpopular/bad (looking at you Q, J, Z, X) in most combinations (often the exception is the end).

Stuk2• 15 years ago

Yeah, that's true. I like using it more as a launchpad for ideas. It's definitely not going to generate the next Flickr!

charliepark• 15 years ago

"alohu" is pretty good, but someone's already snagged it.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

I suspect the top of the list was looked at the most, perhaps strategically looking at other areas may lead to better success?

baddox• 15 years ago

None starting with 'sh'?

ohashi12• 15 years ago

Oops. Apparently I missed that combo.

pessimism• 15 years ago

My mind was slightly blown today, when I realized that http://productivitycalendar.com and .net (and all other permutations) were available.

There are still some excellent domains left, as difficult as it can seem to find some good ones.

Let this be some anecdotal pep talk.

Using NLTK to "mine" for viable domains also sounds like an interesting idea. Might even be a business model.

Undergrads• 15 years ago

I grabbed gleeh.com, might be good for resale at least. Thank you for the list!

yahelc• 15 years ago

dehog.com! I'd buy it if I had use for it.

Also, a clever use of this data set would be to run it against the Google Search API, and order them by the number of results. Theoretically, more results = better word. Or, less results means easier SEO.

ohashi12• 15 years ago

I don't have a way to hit the API that hard, if you do, would love to see the results!

pstack• 15 years ago

I like utalu. I suppose you could pronounce it either OO-TALL-OO or YOO-TUH-LOOH or OO-TUH-LOO (which I prefer, because it rolls off the tongue better and sounds really playful).

dualogy• 15 years ago

HiSux.com ... smells like opportunity.

traviso• 15 years ago

For shits and giggles I took Kevin's lists and created a fun little startup name generator that you can play around with.

http://whatthefuckshouldinamemystartup.com

Visit the About page and donate to Kevin for all of his hard work :)

List of 24,000 Available Brand Names (.com) For Your Startup

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