Choosing your brand name and matching .com domain name are very important. Here’s proof!

Zelle, a surname, one of which being Larry Zelle. The founder of Zelle LLP, which owns Zelle.com and was founded in 1988.

Zelle, a peer to peer payment processing service offered by 30+ banks that launched in 2017. Owners of ZellePay.com

Ever since I launched DotWeekly, I have expressed the importance of “owning your brand” online and in doing so, by owning the best domain name … Read the rest

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I feel like I preach the importance of owning an exact match domain name until I’m blue in the face but the fact is, there are SO many companies that complicate things dearly and do not own EMD’s!

There are a lot of companies who do understand the importance though and I will continue to point them out with facts and numbers! If you missed an earlier mention, Y Combinator, a well established incubator of startups provided a brief hit … Read the rest

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An exact match .com domain name is vital in your companies branding efforts and with the growing popularity of the web, it is even more important now than it has ever been!

So what is an Exact Match Domain? EMD’s 100% match your known business name/brand, with adding .com to it. Amazon Technologies, Inc. is simply known as Amazon. Amazon is the brand. Amazon’s EMD is simply, Amazon.com

In general, it has become common nature for a company like Amazon, … Read the rest

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Here is something that confuses me a little but doesn’t totally surprise me !

Companies big and small file for trademarks on a verity of terms daily in different categories. In general, it seems that nearly every generic term is trademarked and this clearly leads to many legal fights for a vast amount of reasons and often times includes domain names.

I know that people pay close attention to newly registered trademarks (free trademark search), because this can … Read the rest

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