Claiming Social/Digital Handles: August 21
Claiming names for a new project is exhausting.
What platform handles do you claim when starting a new project?
I'll start with the obvious:
- Domain/Website/Blog
There are no bad answers. Platform doesn't need to apply to all businesses, but it should have the possibility that a business might be able to use it for leverage.
Check out Namecheckr, it helps figure out what's taken and where - useful for planning out what name you ultimately want to lock in:
https://namecheckr.com/
I normally take whatever might be immediately relevant to launch; more often than not, Facebook and Twitter.
TikTok and LinkedIn perhaps. Not sure how handles work on LinkedIn though.
Both of these make sense -- I think with Linkedin, it would be establishing the business profile?
There's a business idea in the making!
Would people pay for broad name checking and registration? How to avoid being spammy and avoid squatting?
That's a great point. There's probably 2 products there:
The first would be relatively easy to execute on...
Update: the https://www.namecheckr.com/ Namecheckr product listed in the above comment is a pretty good resource for this.
It does look like its missing some obvious ones: Snapchat, TikTok, etc.