A domain name for my social network startup.

Yeah give this one a shot https://www.namemesh.com/

Or give some suggestions you have considered but was taken

be careful where you try. I've had problems with some sites that somehow the domain is registered by someone else within 24 hours of me searching for it.

I trust hover.com and they offer alternative suggestions alongside what you search for.

@snapey wow that sounds bad. Thanks for the tip. Wish we could list the bad ones here without giving them traffic. I have used name mesh myself without problems but I might have been lucky

@sinnbeck I went to the website but the real issue is that I don't know where to start. I mean which word should I pick up. Could you help with that ? Thanks !

If you can give some examples of names that you have considered, we might better be able to guide you

@sinnbeck Actually I have no idea where to start and which word should I choose. The thing I know is that I will have to choose a word which is connecting people around the world. If you could help me, that would be helpful.

I have noticed another thing here, almost all the famous domain names are taken. It will be hard for us get a good domain name it seems..

all single words are taken so you have to be very creative

There seems to be a science in creating company and websites names. I am not convinced that they work, at least not for me. So, the following is what I have used.

What do you want to do with the website ?
	- List 10
	- Put the 10 in order, most important at the top, least important at the bottom.
	- Without this list, imho, you can't ask anybody to give you feedback on the names AND
	  how do you determine the name if you don't know the goal of the website.
Who is the website for ?
	- Technical, non-tech, holy cow stupid, combination, etc
What do you envision the website to morph to ?
	- You may start with one idea, and then find out that you could include another Area.
		- Try to allow for this UNLESS it will only be for the originally intended purpose.
List names you can think of.  
	- I made my cutoff for this round at 20.  An arbitrary number that kept me boxed into the top
	  xx and not have to deal with hundreds of ideas.  I tried to make it a max of 10, but I couldn't do it.
Run the list by others to see and hear their reactions and to get their ideas.
Cut the total list to 20, again.
Put the names on sticky notes on a wall.
	- Put them on a wall next to each other
		- If possible, the wall should be clear of distractions, such as bricks or wallpaper.
Make a list for each name (Pros and Cons)
	- Remove 10 that have the most cons.  
Now the fun starts.
Beat the hell out of the remaining 10.  
	- Look and modify the Pros and Cons.
	- If you have competitors, use them for what you like and don't like, adding them to your list of
	  Pros and Cons.
Cut your list to 5.
	- Get feedback from others on them.  I used the same people for the feedback, giving them an
	  the reason and goal of the website.  Don't assume that they will remember.  They don't.  And
	  you may have modified the reasons you want to give them.
Put the list in order and start looking for websites.
	- I did this using the hosting provider I planned to use for the website.  I made a decision on
	  the technology I was going to use, Laravel, and picked one of the top 4 hosting providers
	  for Laravel.  That allowed me to buy the site from my hosting provider as I found the names that 
	  were available.  I lost a couple of the names due to not adhering to this..  AND it made it easier 
	  purchasing the names from the hosting provider I was going to use and not deal with transferring 
	  the name to another provider.
	- I purchased a couple of the website names just to make sure I had them and also to box in the name
	  I chose to keep others away from my website.  Kind like facebook.com & facebooks.com....
		- Yeah I spend a extra 0-200 by doing this, but it saved me from others taking names close to my 
		  website's name and then trying to sell the name to me at a premium.

Now, you have your top 5 names of the website you wanted and the top 5 website names you could get. Use one of them, develop the website on one of them (make it easy for you to change the name/logos, do the development in modules allowing for easier changing of names and logos). As you are doing the development you will most likely find one of the names that really fit what you have done and your goals.

In my infinite wisdom, I took a very similar approach for a previous website, EXCEPT I threw away everybody's suggestions & input and used the one I LOVED. I still LOVE the name, but it was so stark that I couldn't build my User base to make the site work. YourDeathDirections.com I killed the site. The replacement is YourPersonalInformation.com Much more subtle, but a very similar goal.

I would also suggest that you find and work with Mentors, making sure that you and the mentor know the rules for each other. If you don't know the rules of the game, it is much more difficult to play the game..... Given that you are having problems from the very beginning, you get where I am going with this....

This process can be maddening... But it sure is fun to look back to see how far you have come....

Have fun and all the best!!