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How to decide what Domain Names to keep?

Country codes? Typos? Hyphenated? Legal considerations?

         

siteconsultant

8:31 pm on Sep 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member




My company has hundreds of URLs: typo variations, country codes, hyphenations, etc.

- What suffixes are considered "must keeps" for sizable corporations?
- Important country codes? (regardless of whether or not we do business there.)

Lisa

11:30 pm on Sep 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The answer to this question really depends on the situation. The bigger the corporation the more protection would be needed. I would suggest keeping your main corporate websites names in all ccTLD countries you currently already have and gTLDs as well.

As for miss-spellings and typos I would only keep them if they happen a lot or your corporation is really really well known.

I would only keep hypenated version of your domains in the main gTLDs. The golden rule of domains is that you can't protect them all. If someone really wants to register your name they will find a TLD that is available or add a hypen to some word to get a name like yours.