May 8, 2009

Relationship between Domain Name Registration and Company Name Registration


A blogger, in a comment to a previous post about the legal process to set up your company, asked with respect to the name registration through Form 1A and later on Form 1, the following:
Another issue is to register your domain name over www under W3C.Mean when we register our company then MCA(Ministry of company affairs), provide a domain name for our company or we need to process it by our own.
If yes,then when we get the authorization to register a domain name directly after getting
Apply for ROC for the name of company or After the submission of form 1,8,and 32.
Maybe it makes sense that we would like the domain name of our web-site to be the same of our company, however, it is not a requirement and many times, because of lack of availability, it won't be possible. Thus, I really think the best is to register your domain name as soon as possible, without waiting for your Company Name registration, and even less, waiting for the Company Incorporation.

What you could do to make sure that they somehow match is to use for your domain name, only the main word or the acronym. For instance, my company is Encyclomedia Communication and Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Certainly, I would not have tried calling my web-site www.encyclomediacommunicationandmarketing.com: who would remember that?

I tried getting www.encyclomedia.com, or .co.in, but wasn't available. So, I chose www.ecam.co.in which is the acronym for the full name of the company.

Imagine my Company Name had been rejected... I don't really think it would have been a big problem. In the worst of cases, I would have setup another domain (even if totally different) and re-direct it towards the IP where www.ecam.co.in is stored. But by that time, there would already be more visitors than I would have had if I had never opened the web-site, thus I would have more prospect clients from the very beginning.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks Javier,I Got most of the points but could you please clarify the exact process of acquiring the Domain name means
    *How to deal with W3C?
    *What kind of legal formalities it required?
    *How to contact and how much investment it required?

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  2. There are many Business want to start business through out the world..So they aim all the People in the world...It will possible by using the website to establish the business all over the world.So they register the Domain name with their wishing extension name like .edu,.in,.org.biz,.com. etc.For this reason also i have used the site for the registration process of my domain name.

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  3. Hi..I have done some research over domain name registration and hope it will also prove benificial to others also seeking for it:
    Basically the process involve aquiring a IP address and then map your domain name.
    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has overall responsibility for managing the DNS. It administers the root domain, delegating control over each TLD[Top Level Donain] to a domain name registry. For TLDs, the domain registry is typically installed by the government of that country. ICANN has a consultation role in these domain registries but cannot regulate the terms and conditions of how domain names are delegated in each of the country-level domain registries. On the other hand, the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are governed directly under ICANN, which means all terms and conditions are defined by ICANN with the cooperation of each gTLD registry.
    Domain names are often seen in analogy to real estate in that (1) domain names are foundations on which a website (like a house or commercial building) can be built and (2) the highest "quality" domain names, like sought-after real estate, tend to carry significant value, usually due to their online brand-building potential, use in advertising, search engine optimization, and many other criteria.
    A few companies have offered low-cost, below-cost or even cost-free domain registrations with a variety of models adopted to recoup the costs to the provider. These usually require that domains be hosted on their website within a framework or portal that includes advertising wrapped around the domain holder's content, revenue from which allows the provider to recoup the costs.
    Regards,
    Chitra

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  4. It's a nice article.
    If we build a website domain name is important for that.I found the site called Tucktail.We can buy or register a domain name and also sell it.It's nice site.It's contain .biz,.asia,.tv,.co.in,etc.,

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