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Q: I’m in the process of buying a domain name. Should I be buying variations to this domain to prevent competitors purchasing them; If so how many?

Mar 23 2007

Answered by: Chris Lindsay     Ask a question

It is always a good idea to purchase the main variations of a domain name, particularly if you have a reasonably obvious name. It is not unheard of for competitors of a business to buy the .co.uk or .net variations in order to pick up customers that forget the extension or misread the URL.

 
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Comment by Chris Miles
Wednesday 2nd May 2007

Buy as many as you think are feasible, and consider buying typos of your company name (mircosoft.com for example). Domain names are not expensive these days. Chris


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Comment by David Campbell
Monday 18th June 2007

It's also a very good idea to buy domain names with your keywords in the name. It helps with search engine rankings.
www.weborama.co.uk


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