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Please help a newbie!
I came up with the idea of looking at newly listed companies (UK) and seeing if they had registered what I would expect their domain name to be. I found many companies do not register their domain names prior to registering the businesses name.
Interestingly many of these businesses have names that look like they have been deliberately created so that they could obtain the .com domain. I have written a tool to find the companies, convert their name to the most likely web domain, dictionary check the name and check if the dot com is available. I'm also working on a scoring method for determining the likeihood a domain name will get registered later.
For example the attached is a list of newly listed companies (08/06/2012) that do not have the associated .com registered (at the time of this post), are dictionary safe (admittedly not the best check) and fairly short <12 characters.
Now I could register each of the .com names in speculation, but the company could then buy the .co.uk or any of the other domains remaining or even use a slightly different name, so it would be a gamble that they want the exact dot com. Presumably as long as the price isn't too exagerated and the company want it they might still buy the dot com. I could also try and sell the domain names to other domain name speculators (build a list?).
Problems:
Cost - Large initial expenditure to cover many domains to test the theory.
No guarantee of return on investment - Newly listed companies could have absolutely no interest in buying any domain.
Name/Tradmark infringement issues - As far as I am aware a UK business name is not a trademark. However I'd be worried that registering some of the names may result in legal issues.
So my question to the forum is in my position what would you do?
Attachment Removed: As I didn't like people thinking I was trying to trap them.
I came up with the idea of looking at newly listed companies (UK) and seeing if they had registered what I would expect their domain name to be. I found many companies do not register their domain names prior to registering the businesses name.
Interestingly many of these businesses have names that look like they have been deliberately created so that they could obtain the .com domain. I have written a tool to find the companies, convert their name to the most likely web domain, dictionary check the name and check if the dot com is available. I'm also working on a scoring method for determining the likeihood a domain name will get registered later.
For example the attached is a list of newly listed companies (08/06/2012) that do not have the associated .com registered (at the time of this post), are dictionary safe (admittedly not the best check) and fairly short <12 characters.
Now I could register each of the .com names in speculation, but the company could then buy the .co.uk or any of the other domains remaining or even use a slightly different name, so it would be a gamble that they want the exact dot com. Presumably as long as the price isn't too exagerated and the company want it they might still buy the dot com. I could also try and sell the domain names to other domain name speculators (build a list?).
Problems:
Cost - Large initial expenditure to cover many domains to test the theory.
No guarantee of return on investment - Newly listed companies could have absolutely no interest in buying any domain.
Name/Tradmark infringement issues - As far as I am aware a UK business name is not a trademark. However I'd be worried that registering some of the names may result in legal issues.
So my question to the forum is in my position what would you do?
Attachment Removed: As I didn't like people thinking I was trying to trap them.
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