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question Does/Should a Company Be Able to Bypass Premium Registration Fees?

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Casey L

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I was listening to ESPN radio and heard a new advertisement for a loan company called Lending Club. It was a live ad read, so the host said "visit lendingclubloans.com today." I checked them out on Google to see that they also own LendingClub.com, but they do not own Lending.Club.

I went to see if anyone owned lending.club, which no one does, and the registration fee is $46,000.

My question is, should a company such as Lending Club have the right to own this domain at the going rate for .club domains or be forced to pay the premium cost?

*I am not affiliated with Lending Club*
 
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.club and the word premium do not belong in the same sentence IMO

The definition of the word premium hugely varies when advertising something.
 
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"Lending Club" is actually a deceptive name for that company because all the loans are by "Industrial Bank", not through any type of club or crowd sourcing, as the name implies.
 
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Maybe they don't need to. It is unlikely that a competing company requiring the capital of a bank/lender would want to use a name that could be confused with another business.
 
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