About startup: In short - SaaS e-commerce platform. Mix between Shopify, Chargify (great names!) and PayPal with social and mobile components.
Domain name wishes: short & cute (like those 2 above). Requirement for domain: .com extension, domain is available or cheap :)
Thanks, B-Scan
Try tapping into a stream of consciousness (meaning, don't over think things) and write a list of words. Or, ask some relative who is not tech savvy to tell you the first words that come to their mind (my mom is good for this).
Lastly, in my second startup (circa 1999), we hired a naming consultant for big $$ and the one take away was: Brand names pretty much don't matter. Nike may have sounded dumb the first time people heard it, but folks remembered it AFTER they tried their shoes. Intel sounds like a spy organization. Microsoft sounds like something for scientists, yet it is a consumer brand now. The bottom line: Don't freak out to much on the name.
I like the bottom line, the product and all around it (sales, marketing) is what is important.
Thanks, B-Scan
It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. There's some surprisingly good domains available from it.
Thank you all for your comments. I tried all the methods/services.
Biggest luck I had with Wordoid. After few thousands of variations I came with 50 .com names.
When I tried they real availability it was about 30 free names. I guess that Wordoid just pings domains or have some long cache for whois. However, in sign of appreciation I used affiliate link.
So final name is: shopeful.com. I hope that "e" in the middle will be ok.
Also, you will notice at some point that 99% of \d{1,4}shop.com is registered in China and parked. What's up with that?
Thx. Btw ZookShop looks nice!