13 Proven Domain Alternatives For Your Business

You just brainstormed the perfect business name.

You’re excited! You rush to buy the .com.

Taken.

Of course it is. They seemingly always are.

Rinse and repeat every time you’re planning a new project or business.

This is a dilemma that countless entrepreneurs face day in and day out. But what if we told you that you didn’t even need the .com after all?

Well, it’s true.

Let’s take a look at the 13 best (and proven) .com alternatives for your new business. We will cover everything from the cost of these alternatives to other successful companies who also gave up on the .com search and went with one of these options instead.

These companies raised a combined ~$575 million without the .com for their business:

• Notion, June, Loops, Amie (.so)
• Twitch (.tv)
• Workspaces, Visible (.xyz)
• ProductHunt (started on .co)
• Levels (.fyi)
• WordPress, freeCodeCamp (.org)
• CodePen, Itch (.io)
• Carrd, VSCO (.co)
• Behance, SlideShare, Speedtest (.net)
• About (.me)
• Copy AI, Jenni (.ai)
• Campsite (started on .design)
• Graphy (.app)
• Poolsuite (.fm)