| ▲ | atonse 7 hours ago |
| LOL thank you domain squatters. I can't think of any other reason why startups often always have the most ridiculous names. |
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| ▲ | al_borland 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s not just the domain squatters. They have to find a name they can get with Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc in addition to the domain. |
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| ▲ | jeroenhd 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A lot of these are puns/vague money sounding names in different languages. Wero has got to be the worst of the bunch, though. An awkward combination of "we" and "euro" combined with "vero". At least the other pooq/wolo/snivum/rumio like names aren't trying to hard. |
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| ▲ | portly 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Apparently it's the same as the Dutch payment system but in some languages that "iDEAL" had wrong associations. | |
| ▲ | account42 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As terrible as these are, at least they aren't just random short English words. | | |
| ▲ | abustamam 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | And at least its not just a random letter in the English language too! (looking at you X) I hate random English words as company names. The other day I saw a company called Runway and it seemed interesting. Turns out there's quite a few companies called Runway or with a product called Runway, in the same industry. Same with Bolt. And I hate that Meta is now the company name so I can't look for meta stuff without also getting results about the company formerly known as Facebook. |
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| ▲ | heffer 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't think it explains the "cat walks on keyboard" brand names for cheap Chinese goods on Amazon. |
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| ▲ | kube-system 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The gibberish brand names on Amazon are a formulaic way to streamline trademark registration which Amazon requires for some features on their selling platform. https://stemerlaw.com/2025/07/16/why-are-amazon-brand-names-... | | |
| ▲ | enoint 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if a name with CJK characters can be trademarked? | | |
| ▲ | kube-system 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, they can. I suspect latin characters are used for practical reasons: compatibility with US expectations... some systems only accept latin characters and certainly your US customers wouldn't be able to search for chinese language characters. |
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| ▲ | VHRanger 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Nothing more reliable than good old SPLARGLE kitchenware | | | |
| ▲ | bluefirebrand 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think they just use random generators to make a 5 digit string and ship it |
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| ▲ | fontain 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Every single 3 and 4 letter .com domain has been registered for at least 20 years, not a single one is available to register. Domains aren’t the reason for names like “wiro” and “tubi”. |
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| ▲ | Imustaskforhelp 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah its a bit bad LLLL.com are all taken I do have k4qr.com but its LNLL. On the other hand though, there are still .org and .net if you are lucky. I usually just use tld-list.com to find all the domains from a particular keyword and then you can buy one which can be nice (eg: I bought https://mirror.forum this way) that being said, you can find the registration prices to sometimes be cheap but the renewal prices can be double the .com or more (which is around 8-10$) For my domain of https://use.expert its renewal is around 40-50$ (4x .com price) but probably worth it as I really love it but I might drop a few domains like mirror.forum as its 20$ just doesn't feel worth it to me and I will just auction it in some forums, not really that sure at the moment So TLDR: you can find some good names if really need be but the idea generally for these startups is to do something similar to what I am saying and then buy the .com later if/when they have the funds, personally I am not that big of a fan of .com but I do realize that I have more chances of remembering .com's because that's the default expectation of the internet. |
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