DG Computers

What’s in a name?

Thanks to drowning-slowly

Everyone’s aware of the importance of registering your company name as a domain – many people will decide on a company name based on what domains are available.

Unless you can prove you owned the copyright to a domain when it was registered by the low-life thieving scum that registered it first, there’s no recourse, as Richard X Thripp the creator of the brilliant Wordpress plugin Tweet This found when someone beat him to tweetthis.net, tweetthis.org, tweet-this.com, and tweet-this.net!

And now there’s hundreds of other web services that require an unique ID – a mini-domain if you like. Twitter and MySpace are the obvious ones (Facebook uses a random unique ID), but what’s next on the conveyor belt of Web 2.0 successes?  Tweba? Ning? Hi5? And these are going to be even harder to claim your company name back on.

So get on the ball now. Get your Twitter name as a start, and then check out namechk.com to see what else there is out there.

I don’t know if anyone else uses 123 Reg for their domains, but I do.  They’re cheap and you get free DNS and web forwarding, which is all I need.

However, their interface is awful.  Not conducive to getting anything done, so I’ve designed (I use ‘designed’ loosely) my own interface, which at least has a menu system.

Any 123 Reg user is free to give it a whirl. It’s at www.dgcomputers.co.uk/123/