
Rob Schutz
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Rob Schutz
@rob
Founder @Snagged. Co-Founder @Ro. Gave belly rubs at @Bark before that. Co-founder, two small children.


At some point, spending too much time around startups and domains changes your brain permanently. You stop hearing words normally. Someone says two random nouns in conversation and your brain immediately checks whether the .com is taken. A while ago, this turned into a dumb game I kept playing with friends. Someone would throw out a domain and everyone else had to guess whether it was taken or available. The weird part is how bad human intuition actually is. A domain like LaserBadger.com feels taken immediately. You just assume some guy wearing wraparound Oakleys bought it in 2007 for a BBQ sauce brand or tactical fitness app. Then somehow it’s available. Meanwhile, something like QuantumLeaf.com has apparently existed for over a decade. The internet gets very strange once you spend enough time paying attention to names. So, naturally, we built the game. Now I play it constantly, mostly because it’s impossible to stop once your brain starts trying to predict internet history. If you want to test your instincts, or accidentally buy a domain you didn’t know you needed, you can play the game here👇 isit.snagged.com/game






Just bought a new domain today… ~$100k (all cash). Can anyone guess which domain?


























