Intuitive domain names

Intuitive domain names

Intuitive domain names are domain names based on generic words (not proper names or tradenames) which a user may use to make up a likely website name which he looks for on the Internet in case that website exists and is relevant to what the word means. Examples are http://www.carhire.com when looking for information about car hire, or http://www.rebreather.com for a scuba diver who is looking for information about rebreather scuba sets. Some such website names have sold for very high sums: the highest known such prices (as at April 2007) are $3,000,000 for http://loans.com and $5,500,000 for http://business.com .

Related are obvious website names made from names of organizations, for example [http://www.pbs.org pbs.org] for Public Broadcasting System.

To be distinguished are "typo squatting" and "likely mistake squatting", for example, when looking for PBS, guessing at [http://www.pbs.com pbs.com] leads to the unrelated firm Digital Technology International, formerly called "Publishing Business Systems".

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