11 pointsby walterbell8 hours ago3 comments
  • B1FIDO3 hours ago
    It's cute to see commenters answering the question while the article is also doing that work.

    Anyway, honest question: who the hell is "domainregistry.com"? They claim they've been "accredited since 1996". I've never, ever heard of them, and I used to work for InterNIC.

    Their so-called founder, "Larry Erlich", is not notable either. Neither of these have Wikipedia entries. Does anyone know who they are, or where they came from?

  • dzonga4 hours ago
    buy a domain.

    only register i.e form an LTD | LLC when the company can generate predictable revenue for at least 2 months.

    nothing is a nightmare - dealing with issues for an LLC that can't pay its own bills and being forced to file forms every year for something that's not making money

    I have made that mistake twice before.

    now I will only register an LLC if I can make at least $20k/month

    • gucci-on-fleek2 hours ago
      > now I will only register an LLC if I can make at least $20k/month

      That can be fairly risky depending on the type of business though, because an LLC gives you liability protection. Your strategy is probably fine for a B2C SAAS software business since there isn't much potential for liability there, but it would be really risky for any sort of business that operates in the "physical" world.

  • evolve2k3 hours ago
    Register and reserve the domain first.

    You can hold it as yourself for as long as you need. No harm to having domains except a few dollars of annual cost.

    It’s easy for another person to register it at any time, so grab it first.

    The scenario of registering a company only to find that someone else bought the domain and you now need to pay them a chunk of money to get started is not where you want to be.

    • walterbell2 hours ago
      Apparently cybersquatter bots can monitor brand new company registrations and scalp domain names for resale to the same company.