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What about the situations where you have two different companies operating in two different industries with the same trademark? Apple Records v. Apple Computer?


Similar question to mine about different global locations where similar business have similar names.

Getting the domain name is an important aspect of choosing your business name - how much harder will that be when you want to open "Computer Solutions" in Kalgoorlie and can't get the domain because of an equally small "Computer Solutions" in Timbuktu?


This won't solve that problem. I think that ICANN should continue to maintain (even enhance) geographic TLDs, so that my little pet groomer in NYC doesn't need to pony up the cash to buy a gTLD or use a commercial second-level domain, but can get a cheap .nyc.ny.us name name.

In your case, whichever Computer Solutions gets big enough to buy the gTLD first wins.


The same way Apple got me.com: Whichever one is big enough to buy the domain off the other one gets it.




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