Question about Naming Domains

"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam RemoveThis @houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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 > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
 > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
 > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
 > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
 > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.

They may not be for long, now that you named them.

 >
 > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?
 > Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
 > names as theirs? How do I prevent that?

Huh? Unless it's a trademark, no problem. I would only buy one and use it
for the site. If you use the company name, it will only help in search
engines for people searching for Tom's Long-Named Company, unless racingsled
or something from the common search terms are part of the company name.


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In article <xPCcnbSjc6v-iKSiU-KYvA RemoveThis @wideopenwest.com>, Dan DeVincent
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 > "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam RemoveThis @houston.rr.com> wrote in message
 > news:120820031121592328%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
  > > Hi Gang,
  > > I have been lurking awhile, and apologize in advance if I miss the
  > > flavor of the group. For no reason at all, I have changed the names for
  > > the question below.
  > >
  > > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
  > > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
  > > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
  > > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
  > > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
  > >
  > > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?
  > > Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
  > > names as theirs? How do I prevent that?
  > >
  > > Thanks in advance,
  > > Mark
 >
 > The name dosnt really matter, its all personal preferance.
 >
 > Where are you buying these domains so they cost you 100$? Many registrars
 > charge less than 15$/year for domains now, in fact we offer domains for
 > 12.00$.

The $100 was for all 9 domain names combined, not for each one.
 >
 > People cannot claim your domains as theirs because when you register your
 > domain your info is in the global database, if there was a dispute someone
 > could just lookup the whois info and see its yours.

I was thinking more in terms of what happened when anybody registers a
name with the term coke in it. Coca-Cola claims it, and they always
win.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dan
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"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam DeleteThis @houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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 > Hi Gang,
 > I have been lurking awhile, and apologize in advance if I miss the
 > flavor of the group. For no reason at all, I have changed the names for
 > the question below.
 >
 > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
 > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
 > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
 > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
 > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
 >
 > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?
 > Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
 > names as theirs? How do I prevent that?

I would just go with "Tom's long named company" unless you could get a
really good generic one.

I would also get the .net, .org, and possibly .biz and .info

Competitors will only have a claim if you are infringing their trade mark,
further reading:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/index.htm</a>

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm" target="_blank">http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm</a>
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In article <bhb4vf$10j4e4$1@ID-162618.news.uni-berlin.de>, Charles
Sweeney <me.TakeThisOut@charlessweeney.com> wrote:

 > "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam.TakeThisOut@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
 > news:120820031121592328%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
  > > Hi Gang,
  > > I have been lurking awhile, and apologize in advance if I miss the
  > > flavor of the group. For no reason at all, I have changed the names for
  > > the question below.
  > >
  > > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
  > > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
  > > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
  > > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
  > > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
  > >
  > > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?
  > > Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
  > > names as theirs? How do I prevent that?
 >
 > I would just go with "Tom's long named company" unless you could get a
 > really good generic one.
 >
 > I would also get the .net, .org, and possibly .biz and .info

Good idea.
 >
 > Competitors will only have a claim if you are infringing their trade mark,
 > further reading:
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/index.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/index.htm</font</a>>
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm</font</a>>

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Mark Nobles wrote:
 >
 > ... when anybody registers a
 > name with the term coke in it. Coca-Cola claims it, and they always
 > win.

ColocoKeep.com? - don't bother checking, it's just a 'for instance'

I can't see how they could justify needing that domain to protect their
brand - you know different?

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:20:49 +0000, Mark Nobles wrote:

 > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?

Completely reasonable if you feel it's necessary, but you can save some
bucks by using a cheaper service such as godaddy.com to buy your names
from. I'm not advertising for them, and I'm sure there are probably
cheaper ways to get names, but we've used them for several of our domains
and it's been hassle-free. Service reps are pretty good too.

My $0.02

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"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam.DeleteThis@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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 > In article <xPCcnbSjc6v-iKSiU-KYvA.DeleteThis@wideopenwest.com>, Dan DeVincent
 > <stftk14.DeleteThis@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
 >
  > > "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam.DeleteThis@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
  > > news:120820031121592328%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
   > > > Hi Gang,
   > > > I have been lurking awhile, and apologize in advance if I miss the
   > > > flavor of the group. For no reason at all, I have changed the names
for
   > > > the question below.
   > > >
   > > > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
   > > > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
   > > > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
   > > > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
   > > > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
   > > >
   > > > Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a
year?
   > > > Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
   > > > names as theirs? How do I prevent that?
   > > >
   > > > Thanks in advance,
   > > > Mark
  > >
  > > The name dosnt really matter, its all personal preferance.
  > >
  > > Where are you buying these domains so they cost you 100$? Many
registrars
  > > charge less than 15$/year for domains now, in fact we offer domains for
  > > 12.00$.
 >
 > The $100 was for all 9 domain names combined, not for each one.
Still too much, if you are buying 9 at once do not pay more than $8 each -
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"McWebber" <mcwebber RemoveThis @my-deja.com> wrote in message
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 > "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam RemoveThis @houston.rr.com> wrote in message
 > news:120820031121592328%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
  > > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
  > > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
  > > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
  > > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
  > > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
 >
 > They may not be for long, now that you named them.
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In article <3f39aa9d$1@clear.net.nz>, Bill Logan <blogan RemoveThis @clear.net.nz>
wrote:

 > "McWebber" <mcwebber RemoveThis @my-deja.com> wrote in message
 > news:1LqdnTeYQv4d3aSiXTWJhg@comcast.com...
  > > "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam RemoveThis @houston.rr.com> wrote in message
  > > news:120820031121592328%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com...
   > > > I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
   > > > and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
   > > > tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
   > > > buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
   > > > and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
  > >
  > > They may not be for long, now that you named them.
 > He did say he had re-named them!
 >
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I think you could go either way on the names, as long as they aren't
too long to type or to remember. Consider what barnesandnoble.com did
-- bn.com takes you there and is rememberable.

Still, something meaningful and easily remeberable in both long and
short forms would be best. Asking your customers to try and remember
two names is asking for trouble. bn.com already had an established
name to bank on.

Getting several very differently named domains could be good, but it
can also become confusing. You would need to publicize all of the
domain names for them to be useful, and then you've got more to
remember and more to become confused by. Still, I could imagine

"Go to tomssledrentalsandrepair.com, or just sledmarketplace.com."

Personally, I'd drop the long name altogether in this case and go with
the simple name.


And regarding .biz. net, info, etc., you might get *some* benefit from
registering them and directing them to your site, but I would guess
keeping it as simple as possible in your publicization has got to be
the way to go. Publicize your .com address(es) only.

Greg Conquest

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:20:49 GMT, Mark Nobles
<cmn-nospam DeleteThis @houston.rr.com> wrote:

 >Hi Gang,
 >I have been lurking awhile, and apologize in advance if I miss the
 >flavor of the group. For no reason at all, I have changed the names for
 >the question below.
 >
 >I am building a site for a business (Tom's Long-Named Company) to buy
 >and sell used racing sleds. Tom wants to name the site
 >tomslongnamedcompany.com, which is available. I suggested also buying
 >buyaracingsled.com, sellaracingsled.com, buyaluge.com, sellaluge.com,
 >and a couple of others, all of which are also available.
 >
 >Is my suggestion reasonable, or just a waste of a hundred bucks a year?
 >Also, should I worry about whether RacingSled.com will try to claim my
 >names as theirs? How do I prevent that?
 >
 >Thanks in advance,
 >Mark



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