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bookuary.com, bookfilia.com or bookhead.co?

Which of these domains seems more memorable?

Thinking I should stick with a .com even if the name is made up word. Curious as to what you guys think

on November 7, 2019
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    Preferably 1 or 2 as .com bookuary is good but has to remember the spelling. However, bookfilia is like no need to remember the entire spelling. All the best.

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      Thanks! I'll consider that as well

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      bookuary or bookfilia?

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    I'd stick with a dot com too, I'd go with the first one as more memorable and a little easier to spell too.

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      Thanks. I'm leaning to that one too. I've been asking random people to spell them in cafes without telling them why until after. Just to see if they can from pronunciation.

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    bookuary sounds much better

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      Thanks, looks like more people on here are favoring that one. :)

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    I like bookfilia for pronunciation but bookuary for spelling. The “uary “ makes me think “actuary “ and “sanctuary “ which both have the “ct” which makes “bookuary” not roll off my tongue as naturally.

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      Yeah, bookophilia, bookofilia and bookphilia were all gone already which makes me think if I go with that I'd lose traffic to miss-spellings.

      Nice that it brought sanctuary to your mind, I was thinking it brought first month to my mind. Like January or February. But sanctuary for books sounds nice :) Thanks!

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    Hold out for a name that's a "hell yes." If you yourself aren't convinced it's a great name (i.e. you're deliberating, as you are in this post) - it's an indicator that the name is lackluster and it won't be memorable to customers either.

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      I think it's bad idea to hold out because I'm deliberating about the name. Though I'll be looking out for the 'hell yes' domain I'll launch with the best I have for now. Hence the deliberation. Name can be changed later. Getting it out to customers is more important.

      Think airbnb, uber, instagram or even google(backrub was their original name lol)

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        LOL. Dude, I'm trying to help you. Do you often tell people their ideas are bad when they're trying to help you?

        I've worked in marketing for 12 years, with companies like Netflix and Disney. This is what I've learned on the subject, condensed into a few small paragraphs for your easy digestion:

        What we're talking about here is branding.

        Branding is about clarity of purpose. Your brand is your north star in marketing.

        The best tool you have in standing out in someone's mind is your brand's name, because it is the smallest piece of information that encodes the following things: WHAT you do, HOW you do it, and WHY you do it. Apple - easy to remember, implies that anyone can learn it (everyone learns that "A is for Apple" when they begin to learn the alphabet).

        Marketing is about positioning. Positioning means getting people to think about your company in a particular way. If they think about it in the wrong way, you could have the greatest product/service in the world and nobody would care.

        The greatest obstacle you have in getting people to understand your "why" is memory/attention (two sides of one issue - cognitive bandwidth). Since you are a startup, you do not have the resources to try to win the battle for attention. Other companies have far greater ability to do that because they have huge amounts of capital, in various forms. Therefore you must resort to articulating your solution to an important problem so clearly and precisely that it sticks in people's minds and becomes easy for them to recall in conversation. This is the crucial threshold.

        Can you imagine (or have you experimented to see whether this is the case with your name options) that users can and will repeat your company's name? If it's akward for them, they won't. If the name isn't self-explanatory, it likely also won't come up in conversation. By self-explanitory, I mean that you have two hurdles to clear - first is the spelling. Can you say it out loud and reliably communicate the URL without having to manually spell out the spelling? And part two - does the name itself imply the solution (or at least a general "approach" or "value", like apple's "easiness") to the problem you're attempting to address?

        In the case of bookuary.com and bookfilia.com, you are not clearing either of those hurdles. Bookhead.co is a maybe on the spelling (though you do have to spell out ".co" rather than leaving the domain suffix implicit, which you could do if you chose a .com), but Bookhead still does not imply a solution, approach, or value.

        I too am developing a startup in the book space. I went with Quick Reads. The what, how, why, and value are all right there, easy to spell, and easy to remember.

        Aim for something like that.

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          If I think it's a bad idea I think it's nicer to be honest than to give a false platitude.

          As for branding I agree with most of what you are saying except that every second you spend trying to find the perfect name is a second that you're not testing the product with customers, even under a bad name the user will tell you if it's solving a problem or not. Name can be changed later. I'd say go with the best you can find for now which is what I'm doing by soliciting feedback.

          Also the name should be available for purchase. Most good domain names are taken so there's that limitation. The 'wow' name I have in mind is actually up for sale. But it's a couple thousand bucks. I'd rather validate the idea first with a good enough name first before spending money on that domain before I know if the idea is viable.

          In the case of Apple, they operated for many years before they dropped the computers from apple computers to just apple. This was in 2007.

          Text doesn't convey tone so let me say clear that I appreciate your feedback :)

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    Is this for Books related website?!

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        May I know more about your project?!

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          It's a book recommendation engine with a social aspect to it.
          Think if goodreads had the recommendations of those you follow on twitter.

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            Book Finder
            Book Genius
            Book Seeker
            Book Feed
            Book Graph

            Some food for thought...

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              three of those five I had tried before. They're either taken or being sold for more than 3,000 dollars

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            All the best!

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      Thanks! I'm leaning towards that right now