Brandable?

[hardbyte]

Hi, whats a brandable domain name? Is this what you class as a name where you have a lot of the extensions or is it just a "good" name?

Many thanks

 

[Creature]

I hope that one of the lawyers can write an article to clearly define 'brandable', 'generic', 'descriptive' and any other types of domain names and how they can be used.

 

[fatter]

a brandable name is one that other companies dont have trademarks on or been doing business with these names. It can also be a generic product to some degree. It is a name that a company can build a brand around in fact you have some in your signature

A big mistake for new domainers is they have a huge portfolio of brandable names that anyone could make up themselves like google did or many others. Best thing is to concentrate on traffic names and only keep a few brandables, unless they represent generic products. Just my opinion here of coarse

 

[hardbyte]

Thats great, many thanks for your reply.

I purchased a domain name and most of its extensions to find that a few weeks later someone registered it as a company name. Obviously they registered the name as a company before me (first come first serve - I understand that) and they not interested in the domain name so I'm a bit miffed about it.

Iv decided to keep the name and domains but Iv had to register the company name with the word "Services" in the title. Bummer!