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I'm not sure.

I'd rather have a memorable name with a sub-par TLD, than I would have a confusing / hard to remember name with a .com.

Obviously, the ideal is memorable + .com, but most of those will cost 50-100k+, which is not feasible for seed-stage budget.

Sounds like a series A problem.




According to the article, there's a third option:

> It turns out almost any word or word pair that is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one, and the number of such domains is so large that you can find plenty that are cheap or even untaken. So make a list and try to buy some. That's what Stripe did. (Their search also turned up parse.com, which their friends at Parse took.)




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