Domain name advice

[shereen]

Is it frowned upon/illegal/cheeky/fookin well out of order to register a domain as camberleyfencingcompany.co.uk if there is already a camberelyfencing.com (they supply and install fencing, we only install?)
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[lihp]

Probably illegal.
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[Going]

Why. Two different names.
If you're trying to make your website to pretend to be this other site, then that's probably illegal.

[The Artist]

If you owned camberelyfencing.com, would you be happy about the situation?

If you say no, there is your answer. If you say yes, you are a liar.

[duhawkz]

It depends, do you own/work for Camberley fencing company if you do and you supply fencing then it you could probably get away with it, but you could hit trademark/IP issues depend if the other camberly fencing have registered trademarks and who was formed first.

If you dont and your thinking of trying to nick it and flog it back to them it's known as domain squatting and if they have a trademark you could end up in court.

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2013/11/06/domain-squatting/
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[Rogerborg]

Why not just describe the actual situation? Are you intending to squat to mess someone up? Is it being done to you? Is this an actual commercial spat, or a personal vendetta? Is the victim risering to the bait?
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[doggone]

Neither camberelyfencing.com or camberlyfencing.com exist so may be hypothetical

[Rogerborg]

I expect it's unnecessarily obfuscated rather than hypothetical.
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[ScaredyCat]

If you're called Camberley Fencing then there's no problem with it. What do you think happens with any other companies that have the same name ?

There's nothing wrong with it at all. Make your site look totally different so that you don't fall foul of any 'passing off' laws.

Owning a .com (or conversely a .co.uk ) doesn't automatically entitle only you to have that domain name and all the TLD variants thereof. you want it you have to buy it*.


* and by buy I mean rent.
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[lihp]

[CaNsA]

[Northern Monkey]

[ScaredyCat]

[covent.gardens]

Read up on cybersquatting. If you've registered a domain similar to a company's trading name then that's what you'll likely be accused of. If you are actually trading as a company with a similar name in a similar field then that's even worse and you shouldn't be.

[Quornholio]

[ScaredyCat]

[shereen]

So the situation is that my partner wants to expand his company and we are moving to Camberley in a couple of months. He is a fencer so wants to call the company Camberley Fencing Company which will be affiliated with his main company, Anthony Beale Fencing. Camberleyfencing.com is based in Camberley and they mainly supply timber to the trade and public rather than install products, they are not well know in the industry. My partner only installs fencing.

So yay or nay?

We don't wan't to cyber squat, but use the domain to set up a legitimate company.
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[shereen]

[duhawkz]

I think you will *probably* be alright, providing your website bares no resemblance to the other company's, different colour scheme no similarity in logo design etc.

As mentioned above it is possible to have 2 companies with the same name as long as your not trying to pass one off as the other.

but why not just use Anthony Beale Fencing and avoid any problems all together
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[lihp]

I'd say no, and I am also thinking this is an attempt to gain new business quicker in your area by sitting on the back of another similar companies name.
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[Rogerborg]

Camberleyfencing.com = Camberly Fencing Products.

If your bloke really wants "Camberly Fencing" in the company name, then I'd suggest Camberly Fencing Services.

Folk find things through Google now, so domains don't really matter that much. Get anything that you want. Be prepared to work cheerily with Camberly Fencing Products to disambiguate the companies. Having his business cards on their counter is better than firing snotty nastygrams back and forth.
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[daemonoid]

[shereen]

[lihp]

[CaNsA]

Cheap as chips.


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