Seems as if movies, if you want to think of them as brands, don’t always have the luxury of using only the movie title.

My cousin Viken Berberian* used to own Viken.com but then he sold it to some Norwegian company (for US$5600) who now get it to redirect to their main site. Funny twist: they recently contacted him to sell it back to him… Riiight.

* Author of “The Cyclist”, a great, and greatly surprising, little novel.

hhp

I’m coming up with nothing. I really need brand names, more than movie names.

i don’t know how “major” it is, but i remember when i was trying to find information about a green tea drink put out by SoBe Lean, I typed in www.sobe.com and didn’t get it. Their address is www.sobebev.com.

Showtime

is http://www.sho.com

Some ugly sites: http://www.herrindustrial.com http://www.metropoliscinemas.com.mx

Héctor

sho.com

for the SHOWCASE channel

website not accessible if you live in canada

• www.nissan.com is the subject of a lawsuit.
• Print Magazine has neither www.print.com, nor www.printmagazine.com,
instead operating at www.printmag.com
• Prince, a large sporting goods company, has sued to try to get www.prince.com

drawing a blank on any others

“Google drops Gmail address in UK”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm

When you say different, how different do you mean?

American Airlines use AA.com as their primary web address but as far as I know (I’m not American) is not known as AA.

It’s complicated by redirection from multiple addresses, e.g. British Airways promote ba.com but it just redirects to britishairways.com.

continental.com belongs to Continental Airlines not the tyre company (who use conti-online.com).

ms.com belongs to Morgan Stanley and not the more obvious software giant.

Many times major brands use alternate domain names for special promotions.

http://www.camelsmokes.com
http://www.smokerswelcome.com

http://www.beerdrinkersagainstthemistreatmentofbeer.com (Coors Beer)
http://www.bkmasks.com (Burger King - masks for Halloween)
http://www.prefergorgeous.com (Jaguar autos)
http://wearethemudds.com (special site for Jeep)
http://www.goldengecko.com (promo site for Geico Insurance)

Also, “planet” is a frequently used prefix on some sites.
I don’t think this url is active anymore, but for years it was the key domain for Reebok: www.planetreebok.com and planet.reebook.com

A couple of other airlines…

South West Air used to be www.iflyswa.com - now its http://www.southwest.com/

SAS - not http://www.sas.com it’s at http://www.scandinavian.net/

Cheers, Si

Thanks, Gents. A few of these have proved helpful — especially the South West Airlines example.

All these domain squatters are making my life a living hell. :(