Frequently Asked Questions

How can you offer your services for free and still remain in business?

Whilst the services are free to use, the business model as a whole is not without a revenue generating component. We adopt a revenue model now seen in effect with many of the largest free-to-use web properties such as Google and Yahoo.

Is domain.tld for sale, if so how much?

With the quality of properties we operate this is a common question - we get in the region of 5 sales enquiries per day. Virtually all of these are declined as sales do not form a part of our roadmap. Indeed, with it proving increasingly difficult for us to obtain new properties to add to our offering, it would not make commercial sense for us to consider selling in most instances. If you do wish to make an offer, please ensure it is in line with current market pricing:

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Domain xyz.tld is not being used - can I have it/buy it?

Linked in with the above, we get a number of emails like this. If the domain name resolves, we are using it. Our usage does not follow the traditional single entity brochure/catalogue model. We believe that our usage actually allows more entities to benefit from our descriptive terms than if they were only listing details of a single supplier and it offers greater choice to the visitor who has an interest in the generic product/service rather than a single entity.

Do you buy domain names?

Yes, we are happy to consider strong descriptive/generic domain names in either the .com or .co.uk tld's - especially if they have natural type-in traffic.

How do you choose your names?

As many of the more usable descriptive/generic names were initially registered many years ago, the majority of our properties are operated on domain names made available following the abandonment of domains of the same character string by third parties unknown. By examining lists of these names, we are able to extract descriptive/common terms that we feel would benefit our service and we compete to secure those terms at the moment they become available to register again as domain names. We have supplemented and filtered this using various descriptive term lists.

I have a company/brand/website/dog etc called xyz and you have xyz.tld - why?

The very nature of descriptive/generic terms mean they are used by more than one party - and there are geographical and usage type factors to consider too. Some parties may choose to use such a term to provide a recognisable leverage to a brand, although most trademark offices explicitly deny the registration of a descriptive term used descriptively as a mark due to its inability to be a distinctive source of origin.

Disputes

If you believe you have proprietary rights in a term that one of our names comprise, you are welcome to submit full details to ourselves for review via our contact page. We are happy to deal with such matters in a timely and professional manner.

We will, however, fully defend our descriptive/common term assets against covetous parties.