Bad domain names being advertised

[h2o]

Lately, from memory the worst domain to be advertised on my TV screen is doubt-themovie.com. It is not just the dash, it is a dash that is not even uniform. It's hard to even say doubt-the-movie.com is any better. All of this hits my mind while looking at a report history and seeing that doubt.net went for $350. I didn't get the name, but you would think that name would be a better match. Would they be interested in such a name or would the say that "the movie" ending is more helpful? At the same time, most end users are clueless about domains.

 

[copper]

I think doubt.net is not good fit for the movie "doubt".
doubt.net - you wouldn't know what that site is about from domain itself.
doubt-themoive.com - you know what that site is about from domain itself.

Plus, for SEO, doubt-themovie.com is much better than doubt.net

 

[kidkool]

you'd think that for the amount of money that is spent advertising and promoting a film...all the publicity and commercials etc. We're talking millions of dollars. You'd think they would at lease set aside a couple thousand bucks to buy a decent domain for it..for the price of a couple local radio commercials. I mean really, would the owner of the unhyphened "doubtthemovie.com" really be asking that much?
It just means that somebody over there in marketing is not very good at their job.

 

[d0main]

yes as a domainer you would want to think so. unfortunately, most of the time, we live in our own little bubble

 

[gazzip]

Lately, from memory the worst domain to be advertised on my TV screen is doubt-themovie.com. It is not just the dash, it is a dash that is not even uniform.

Hyphens are quiet common on TV but not ones like that LOL


I just saw a strange thing recently on TV, comparethemarket.com is always advertising car insurance on TV and i think they get many thousands of visitors to their website ....now they started using another domain in their adverts and saying don't go to comparethemeerkat.com

Its queit a funny ad but its unusual that after spending thousands branding one domain they now introduce another domain. (at least they put a website on the second one lol)

This is the ad shown on TV http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/tv-ad.html


...so now we have Elephants and Meerkats selling car insurance on UK TV, Britain is turning into a right zoo


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