Domain name conundrum

Hello IndieHackers,

I know I write too much, but I have a small story that ends with a question :-).

I have been chasing a domain name for a while. A 5-letter word that works in pretty much every language, and that would perfectly match the product I am building.

Now the .com is unavailable - and even if it was, it would be way up there in the 6+-digit price range - but the .co was for sale on the Godaddy auction site (pro-tip: avoid Godaddy like the plague).

So I tried to buy it there, and was the only one bidding anyway, but the seller wouldn't let it go below $10k (which leaves around $8k for the seller). I thought it was a bit expensive for a .co, but it was still a good name and it would have technically allowed me to recover the Twitter handle matching the name (but the seller does not seem to know that).

Long story short, I "paid" for it, except after few weeks of delay and silence, Godaddy eventually told me the seller did not own the domain and could therefore not sell it, and - after ages - mostly refunded me. I'm pretty sure it was more about the seller wanting a higher price than about not owning it, but that won't change the result.

Eventually I contacted the "real" owner (who somehow writes exactly like the seller on Godaddy) myself and after weeks of back and forth asking if they would sell it and not being able to get a price from them, eventually today I received one: "in the $50-100k ballpark". Obviously that's ridiculous for a .co, so that's a no-go (although leasing it for a month to get the Twitter handle could be something).

Now I really liked the domain (and still think the word is a perfect match), and found out that there are some fairly simple alternatives for less than $5k:

<word>-news.com
<word>press.com
<word>2.com
<word>community.com
get<word>.com

Some quick info about the product:

• it's a b2b product for journalists/newsrooms
• they build their own news site with the product and use their own domain name, so the readers/audience (the vast majority of the platform's users) will never really see that domain name or brand

Any thoughts on which one I should go for?

The <word>-news.com one seems fitting; in my head "press" sounds old and paper-y, and the other ones seems a little odd or too long.

Quick note: I own <word>.ws and <word>.mobi already but... meh

Follow-up: with some thinking and the feedback I got from IndieHackers, I went for <word>news.io/.app which were available