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City or Country name in domain?

by Ryan Sterling
8 replies
I was wondering if you are allowed to have a city, town or country name in your domain. I did a Google search but found nothing.

Thanks
#city #country #domain
  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    Yes.......
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    • Profile picture of the author BrashImpact
      Of course you can... The main thing is to make sure your not violating anyones specific trade mark...

      Outside of that...You should be Golden!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    yes but you can not do a Texas-us.com name. or Texas-gov.com name, I got in trouble for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    I ranked #1 for my towns' newspaper's main keyword (not the trademark name). It was the oldest website in the area so I was only attacking it to see if I could ...

    Once I ranked and stayed at number 1 .. I gave the site to the newspaper.

    I had no desire to run a newspaper site. I didn't charge the newspaper anything for the site or domain name. I can now walk in to the news office 10 minutes before deadline and get a free classified in the next edition.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryannull
    Yes, you can. Before you buy domain names, you might want to check the search volume on those geographical keyword areas. Depending on the area, you could have a lot or nothing, so do your research first.
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  • Profile picture of the author sriram rajan
    @troy that was awesome .... i am sure adding a perfix and suffix to the city name should be fine ..
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  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    Yes! Ahh this is my specialty, geo domains. Some of the biggest domainers have geo domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author danlew
    Yes, you're allowed to put your city or country's name in your domain. But if you want quick cash by flipping geo-targeted domains, I suggest that you should go for the city name and followed by a business-type name.
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