Our Walsh Clothes guy in Fresno is in luck. I did a name search and found the name walshclothes.com is still available. But he better move fast before some other enterprising person snaps it up . . . going, going . . . Frank --- Alpha Opportunities <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I really hate to wade into these circular arguments and have > refrained > from doing so for a long time, but I see several real problems with > the > position advocated here by Mr. Chvostek. To wit: > > > I register a domain "walshclothes.com" in the hope that maybe it'll > > be worth something someday. Some guy in Fresno starts a clothing > > company, and without knowing anything about the Internet, calls it > > Walsh Clothes. Years/Months/Weeks later, he realizes he'd better > > have a domain name, but walshclothes.com is "taken", and points to > a > > page that invites him to place a bid to get control over his own > name. > > First of all, this is a pretty simplistic example, but let's say > someone does want to register such a clunky domain name and gets > around > to it first (and this assumes the 20 other Walsh Clothes in the world > haven't gotten to it already). What kept the 20 other Walsh Clothes > guys/girls from doing it? As someone said, ya' snooze ya' lose. > Next, > it might be a smart idea for the Fresno Walsh Clothes guy to do a > domain search before selecting a name for his company (I do it, lots > of > people do it, before setting up new companies). Maybe it would cause > him to come up with a better name for his company and allow him to > get > a domain that is not already taken. And third, there are multiple > ways > of expressing domain names (walsh-clothes, clothesbywalsh, > walshclothing, walshclothesfresno, etc., etc.) to allow someone to > work > around the fact that walshclothes.com was taken already. Continuing > right along . . . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
