How I chose a name for Discove

Non-negotiable company naming criteria for a consumer facing social media that's not only an app in 2022 for David

For only apps (no web), “get<X>” or other domains are fine imo, which solves alot of the problems. For B2B shortness of name is not as important.

• must have a close enough vibe for the company

• must not have a trademark in US that is sufficiently similar company (internet services that could be mistaken for this…)

• must not have an existing household name company with this name (“kia” etc)

• must not have bad connotations in english or spanish - other languages don’t matter (”shitr”)

• domain must be reasonably affordable (<1K)

• domain must not need to be purchased through a negotiation process (too slow/pricey)

• must be 6 or less characters before domain, name can only be longer if it uses the TLD in the name (ex: cash.app). 8 letters max could be acceptable for the right name.

• must be one of .xyz/.io/.com/.co/.app/.so TLDs or in rare case another short weird TLD like .ma if used as a domain hack thats part of the name. Preferably .xyz for crypto as most likely of those to be available, and not esoteric

• must be credible spelling as an english word (no weird spellings lyrt etc)

• must be pronounceable and clearly spellable from saying it without spelling it (shouldn’t be a misspelling of another word)

• not (english word + ly) (that 2010 naming meta is over and I’m over it)

Name Candidates

names that are related to feeds:

• freeds.xyz

• freed

• lifeed

• ofeed

• unfeed

• feedcaster.xyz

• feedmix.app

• feid.xyz

• feed.top (657)

• feeg.xyz

• fefe.xyz

• fede.xyz (looks like a typo of feed)

• openfeed

farcaster specific names

• cast.dog

• recast

• feedcaster

• cast.tools

• notbird.app

• fc.so

• zencast.app

• upcast

• castscan.xyz

• farcaster.pro

• caster

• castle

• cast.sh (250$)

names not related to feeds

• surf

• isaka.xyz isaca?

• lide.xyz lyde?

• community gardens metaphor (as opposed to walled gardens) - gardens.xyz

• dakoro.xyz

• ray

• yuma.xyz (yooma?)

• tune?

• fave.xyz($3K/yr)

• hubs.xyz($300/yr)

• zota.xyz

• tope

• topi

• zila (zilla?)

• grove.app ($700) branch fork, … - grow + love

• .garden TLD?

• sand.bar

• cove

• ah

• coca (cocoa)

• oh.xyz

• pica.xyz

• rine (rhine/rine)

• kine https://twitter.com/KineProtocol?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

• leme (lame?) (leem?) “le-me” “lemmy”

• radar

• hide.xyz (700/yr)

• nip.xyz

• nid.xyz

• shh.xyz

• heh.xyz

• fub.xyz

• beam

• firecard.xyz

• fey.xyz

• wave

• best

• zob.xyz

• line

• grove.app (750$) - https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:xv3t01.4.11

• juby.xyz

• cove.top

• topa.xyz($)

• zumo.xyz($) -could be mistaken for ‘sumo’

• kona.xyz($$)

• kune.xyz($)

• feta.xyz($$$)

• riva.xyz($$)

• guma.xyz (gooma?)

• frida

• slice

• tada.xyz

• wade.xyz (350$/yr)

• seeds

• discove.xyz ($10) / discove.app (discover + cove + discord + discourse)

• spade (gardening)

• fork (gardening) “feed you with my fork”. you’ve been spoon fed your feed for too long. It’s time to fork. Forks used for making digital gardens

• some($$$)

• ade.xyz - mistake for aid ?

• eed.xyz

• saber/ lightsaber

• ike.xyz

• nid.xyz

• hose

• babo.xyz

• camo.xyz

• the.co.ve

Core differentiators

• users are in control of their feeds; what they want to see; the addictiveness of them, the clickbaitiness, …

  • this is all premised on the ability to fork

  • like a wand or lightsaber

Tools

https://domainr.com/to.pa?q=topa

https://iwantmyname.com/?domain=topa

https://dan.com/buy-domain/grove.app

For .XYZ: Download available domains by length here: https://gen.xyz/premiums

https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain/extensions?q=cove

Archive

TOPA: https://twitter.com/topa1one https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4801:y365e.2.6 is probably a non starter due to trademark issues

Names I love

• linear

• cash app

• luma

Migrating later

so if a great choice isn’t available, it’s possible to move later. Here I would suppose that it’s much easier to change a domain than a name (and domain). So the name matters more.