Doron Vermaat of DNGeek has shared an article claiming that 79 percent of the startups may be using a risky domain name.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Name Ninja has analyzed the domain names of 491 startups attending the upcoming startup conference and has published the infographic below that summarizes the results of its analysis. I personally am a strong advocate for short, easy to remember and pronounce names and agree with most of the companies findings but Name Ninja’s view that anything else besides the exact match .com is considered less favorable is slightly controversial as we see a large number of companies without the exact match .com or alternative extensions such as .co or .io raise significant rounds of funding and/or being acquired these days."
There is a report shared with the article that may be found on DNGeek
How do you choose a name for you startup? Do you focus on the name(a name that you are overly passionate about) without giving much importance to the extension(if you do not have the required cash to get the .COM) or you give more importance to the extension thereby compromising with the name?
What is your advice to those starting up sometime soon?
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Name Ninja has analyzed the domain names of 491 startups attending the upcoming startup conference and has published the infographic below that summarizes the results of its analysis. I personally am a strong advocate for short, easy to remember and pronounce names and agree with most of the companies findings but Name Ninja’s view that anything else besides the exact match .com is considered less favorable is slightly controversial as we see a large number of companies without the exact match .com or alternative extensions such as .co or .io raise significant rounds of funding and/or being acquired these days."
There is a report shared with the article that may be found on DNGeek
How do you choose a name for you startup? Do you focus on the name(a name that you are overly passionate about) without giving much importance to the extension(if you do not have the required cash to get the .COM) or you give more importance to the extension thereby compromising with the name?
What is your advice to those starting up sometime soon?