1-800-Get-Rich Can Toll Free 800 Number Domains Pay Off?
by:
Mike Banks Valentine
The toll free number 1-800-Get-Rich belongs to the Resorts Casino Building in Atlantic City. Perfect vanity number for a casino, right? Well apparently not. Their website shows the actual numbers, 1-800-438-7424 for the marketing department of Resorts Atlantic City. Those Amount are obscurity
near as unforgettable
as is the mnemotechnical
device of letters representing those amount on the telephone keypad. It does you wonder, did the casino have bad luck (no pun intended) or obtain bad message for their 800-Get-Rich phone number?
Doing a Google search for 1-800-GET-RICH returns some spoof articles victimisation the toll free number to do light of get rich quick schemes. Seems as well suited to a casino as to satire, since gambling represents the ultimate get rich quick scheme.
But on the web there's a another element to toll free amount you must consider. 800 amount are used as domain names which seem to stick in our memory as a web address just as well as a phone number. Resorts Atlantic City Building Casino should buy the domain name www.1800getrich.com and assign that marketing department toll free 800 vanity number to the Casino.
The domain name is for sale as of this writing if you visit that web address. You can be certain that the current domain owner knows that the toll free vanity telephone number is closely-held by Resorts International Hotels www.resortsac.com which matches the domain www.1800getrich.com. It has to be seductive to think a large corporation may want his domain.
The casino owns the toll free number but isn't victimisation the mnemotechnical
for it. Does you wonder just about the history of the domain name, since WHOIS records show it was reserved only this past May of 2004, AND the history of the vanity number since it is going unused, at least on the web site. Hmmmm...
There are vanity phone number resellers online that really specialize in providing 800 amount with matching domain name for those seeking the consistent stigmatisation
for their business. Clearly this is just a marketing ploy by savvy 800 number vendors, as those domains may be full of hyphens and may cost much than they should due to the perception of value-added.
An exciting aspect to toll free amount as domain names is that of 1-800 copyright and trademarks. Take for example, the well better-known flower distributor 1-800-FLOWERS.com wherever
they use some
the domain name and the toll free number. Some
are copy- righted and proprietary
names and essential to the business.
Legal precedent allows trademark owners to confiscate domains from "cybersquatters" who buy domain names containing trade- marked or proprietary
words and phrases hoping to sell that domain back to the trademark holder. But it is less clean an issue once
it comes to synchronous
toll free and vanity phone numbers. How just about 1-800-PINDROP.com - which you would-be think would-be be registered to Sprint Communications? Curiously, as of Gregorian calendar month of 2004, this domain was available. What do they use? www.pindrop.com (without the 800) goes to Sprint.com.
It appears there are wide inconsistencies in victimisation toll free 800 phone amount as domain names but they can be memorable, which is one measure of a nice domain name. They likewise aren't limiting as to word length. I've always felt it's a bit odd to type in 1800keywordphrase.com as a domain name, but only because there is no hyphen in it. 1800 looks like eighteen hundred and is just as strange as typewriting 247 for domains as a suggestion they are always open, much often seen as 24/7, but domain names can't have that slash mark in them.
As a matter of fact, I've always unlikeable
amount of any kind in domain names - especially those victimisation amount in place of the words "to" (up2me.com)& "for" (good4you.com) But, as owner of http://website101.com I'm at odds with the dislike for amount in domain names. Still, it works better than 1800website.com or 1-800-website.com, some
closely-held by Verio Web Hosting and some
purchased in August of 1996, but neither have web sites designed at those addresses. They must not have been a worthy
domains, yet they support them.
If it offers you another option for a unforgettable
web address, 800 number domains may be worth considering.
Mike Valentine operates WebSite101 domain name tutorial http://WebSite101.com/Domain_Name/.
Free domain search tool to find out who owns domain names at http://website101.com/Domain_Name/Domain-WHOIS-database.html
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