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Paul Graham's Law of Domain Discovery:
"Don't own the .com? The good news is, there's no such thing. 'The .com' is just the only .com you've been able to think of so far."
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The 6 Classic Startup .com Expansion Playbooks

Before spending $500,000 on a secondary market single-word domain, world-class founders launch with high-conversion syntactic variations.

1. The Action Verb (Call to Action)

Prefixing an energetic transitive verb turns your domain into a command. Examples: GetDropbox.com, TryLoom.com, UseFathom.com, MeetCleo.com.

2. The Syntactic Anchor

Signals authority, community, or exclusivity without mutating your brand name. Examples: TheFacebook.com, WeAreEnvato.com, ThisIsPoly.com.

3. Operational Product Tags

Anchors the exact deliverable so users instantly know what they are visiting. Examples: FigmaApp.com, BasecampHQ.com, NotionLab.com.

4. Modern Phonetic Blends

Popularized by Web 2.0 and AI startups to retain brevity while creating an ownable trademark. Suffixes: -ify, -ly, -able, -hq, -io.

5. The Radio Test Rule

If you say your domain once on a podcast, radio show, or in a loud coffee shop, will 95% of people type it correctly without you spelling it out? Avoid double consonants and homophones.

6. The Direct Acquisition Migration

Owning Get[Brand].com or [Brand]HQ.com gives you immediate search credibility. Once your revenue justifies it, buy the raw dictionary word later.

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