RE: UKNM: New subject - Can you advise?

[Jo]

And avoid doing what I did - e.g. inserting lots of hyphens into your 

domain name.  Research shows that people's recollection of hypenated 

domains is lower than for unhyphenated options.  Makes sense, really.


Ahem!


> >www.london-electricity.co.uk

>

> too late, it's gone (see below)... though www.london-electricity.com is

> still available (or at least it is until someone on this list does the

> obvious mean thing and registers it for a laugh)

>

> incidently, i'd always go with a .com as the url you promote *so long as*

> the total resultant url is self-evidently UK (so www.london-electricity.com

> would be fine)

>

> that's not to say one shouldn't register every url punters are likely to

> try - with http://www.UpMyStreet.com for example, we made sure

>

> http://www.UpMyStreet.co.uk, http://UpMyStreet.com,

>

> http://UpMyStreet.co.uk, http://www.UpYourStreet.com,

>

> http://www.UpYourStreet.co.uk etc etc all still work - and from the logs

> I'm vv glad we did!

>

> Domain Name: LONDON-ELECTRICITY.CO.UK Registered For: London Electricity

> PLC Domain Registered By: BTWEBWORLD Record last updated on 09-Sep-1998  by

>

webadminbtwebworld [dot] com. Domain servers listed in order: NS0.BT.NET

> 194.72.6.51 NS1.BT.NET 194.72.6.52