Is there a way to get a .com domain, or this is it?

[solosquad]

I’ve been working on an app for about five months now, and every day I’ve been trying to come up with a name for it that has an available .com domain. It’s been nearly impossible. Either you spend $4,000 on a domain, or you settle for a name that doesn’t look great.

The real issue isn’t just the price or the name—it’s the process of finding a good .com domain. I had an idea, but I’m not sure if it’s feasible: an AI tool (LLM) that generates multiple name suggestions based on your input and automatically checks if the .com domains are available. I know there are some tools, like those on GoDaddy, that generate domain names, but they’re not very effective.

Or maybe that’s it for .com domains—we’ll just have to start using extensions like .ai or .co. What do you think?

[gashmol]

IMHO there are plenty of available and cheap .com domains but you have to be creative. From my experience ai tools aren't creative enough for coming up with unique and good sounding names.

[baobun]

> start using extensions like .ai or .co. What do you think?

Using something other than .com sounds good. Hanging and blocking your entire brand on the availability of .com names sounds almost obsessive.. But .ai and .co? What? There is more to a TLD than the letters and the price. The terms vary. You have much better options than those two.

[sksrbWgbfK]

I'm pretty sure every domain name provider already has such a tool. Also adding "with AI" reminds me of all the ideas that were like "XYZ in the cloud" or "XYZ in a mobile application." For me it's useless and I don't know why I would ever pay for this.

[thetalhatahir]

I thought about this idea too but the issue is that its only telling you if the domain is available or not. If someone is searching for a domain, their intent is to buy it most of the times, if your SaaS just provides search it aint going to be that great, unless you add the option to buy or redirect them to the website where they can buy the domain.

Sorry to give you another bad news, Godaddy's search for domain names is shit. Try namecheap Beastmode, literally thousands of possibilities, even adding suffixes prefixes what not. So that also defeats the purpose of a separate tool with good search.

[readyplayernull]

> I’m not sure if it’s feasible: an AI tool (LLM) that generates multiple name suggestions based on your input and automatically checks if the .com domains are available.

About 15 years ago I made a tool that checked every domain availability starting from single letter ones. After a few days I got a nice 3 letter one that I still keep. It's certainly feasible, an LLM can even make the code to do it, but I wouldn't expect to find anything shorter that 5-6 letters.

[leros]

Find something where the .com is for sale, use .ai or .io for now, then spend the money to buy the .com once your business is generating revenue.

[JamesLeonis]

Choose a 'startupy' sounding name.

- Tumblr removed a letter

- Optimizely added a suffix

- del.icio.us is still the best domain name ever created

- a lot of domains have 'the' or 'try' as a prefix.

The standard dictionary names/combos were taken a long time ago, so you need to be creative.

Once you are an established company (revenue, funding, etc) buying an "expensive, proper" domain becomes less of an issue.

[mettamage]

If mochaccinos.com is still available then IMO you're not creative enough

twobaldmen.com is there as well

So is getmeditationapp.com

flyaware.com is taken

flyingaware.com is not

I think you should try harder.

[nejsjsjsbsb]

Prefix with: try, get, use, with

Postfix with: hq

Etc.

Id focus on a tool to generate the list as a text file. There are plenty places to feed it into. Wouldn't pay for it tho!

[2024user]

cantgetadotcom.com is available