Featured · 12 min readNotes from the naming desk
Working posts about invention, domain economics and the strange business of getting a word to belong to you.
Naming
Craft, frameworks and arguments
Naming · 6 minThe five name types, and when each one is wrong
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Naming · 5 minThe dictation test, and why we run it on strangers
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Naming · 7 minPhonetic friction: why customers shorten your name
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Naming · 9 minCoined names are not a compromise
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Naming · 6 minNaming before incorporation versus after
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Naming · 8 minThe adjacent-mark problem nobody screens for
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Domains and the aftermarket
Prices, holders and how deals actually close
Domains · 10 minWhat a four-letter .com actually costs in 2026
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Domains · 7 minWhat an anonymous approach looks like
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Domains · 6 minWhen a regional dot is an asset, not a compromise
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Domains · 8 minWhy the .ai boom changed how founders name
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Domains · 5 minEscrow, transfer and the week nobody plans for
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Domains · 7 minReading a holder: nineteen years and no website
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A short letter, roughly monthly, about naming and the domain aftermarket. No pitching.








