[Rant] Site & domain names | ANN.lu |
Posted on 08-Feb-2000 10:56 GMT by Christian Kemp | 16 comments View flat View list |
Just a small rant from me about the domain and site names some people are chosing for their amiga-related homepages.
I just noticed that amiganation.com is calling itself AmigaNation News. Now it may just be a bizarre coincidence, but I feel like its creator could have been a bit more creative when registering that domain name and naming his website.
First of all, there has been a site called AmigaNation for years now. And even if that site is in German and has a Swiss domain, that doesn't mean that somebody should rush out and register exactly the same name in a different domain.
Secondly, it sure feels strange that AmigaNation News sounds awfully similar to Amiga Network News, and naturally shares the same initials (which are in bigger type, so it looks even more obvious). Just a coincidence? You decide.
But this wasn't the first time something like this happened. Amiga Central registered a domain even though Paul Morabito's "Amiga Central" had been online for months, if not years before, and had been quite popular. Now I seem to remember that this was a misunderstanding, but still...
If somebody (don't remember who it was) can threaten to sue Colin Thompson for using the very generic name "Daily Fishwrap" for his former Amiga news site, I wonder how people can even think about using exactly the same name for a site that fits exactly the same niche in a very narrow market...
Anyway, enough ranting and/or complaining from me. What do you think? Do you agree with me, or do you think I am way off here?
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Comment 1 | Mario Saitti | | 07-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 2 | Bob C. | | 07-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT |
Comment 3 | John Block | | 07-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT |
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Site & domain names : Comment 4 of 16 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Christian Kemp on 07-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (John Block): > How would it be if someone did an ann.com?
As a matter of fact, the com/org/net domains were already taken for ANN. But
none of these three had anything to do with the Amiga, or at all with
computers, for that matter.
But it starts to get really fishy when in a small market, where it is possible
to know every major site, suddenly one site arrives that has the same name,
the same layout, or the same concept than a site that was already established
for a very long time.
Now I'm all for competition, but whenever people are making their products
stronger by using an existing site's design, name, image, or recognition, I
tend to get just a bit angry and disillusioned. |
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