The Problem with having a name like Go Media

Is that there are countless new "Go Medias" popping up constantly.

Just caught wind of this one in Europe established in 2007:

http://www.gomedialtd.com

And of course those folks that own the gomedia.com domain and tried to sell it to us for like $50-100 grand.

Here are some others:

http://www.gomediaco.com/
http://www.gomediaproductions.com/
http://www.gomediasolutions.com/
http://www.gomediamobile.com/
http://www.gomediamarketing.com/

Oh and we are not affilited with Go Ventures no matter how simliar our logos might be:

http://www.goventures.com

And for the last time, we are not GoGo Construction or the Welfare Office. We used to get calls almost on a dialy basis from asian accented people asking for GoGo Construction. To this day I cannot find any info about GoGo Construction anywhere!

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   MadeByMAS said 7 months ago

   Yeah that is a good a bad thing I guess. Its god to have a name that can be easily recognized and remembered but it also sucks to have a company in every industry with the same name.

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   quakerninja said 7 months ago

   I have know Idea how domains work but I thought that you payed for the name so that no one else would use it. I was looking into intelligent design for a name but its taken so I dropped it. I’ll stick with quakerninja, google already loves it. To bad it couldn’t be go go dancer tryout ink or something ha ha.

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   gameyy said 7 months ago

   quakerninja said: I have know Idea how domains work but I thought that you payed for the name so that no one else would use it. I was looking into intelligent design for a name but its taken so I dropped it. I’ll stick with quakerninja, google already loves it. To bad it couldn’t be go go dancer tryout ink or something ha ha.

   Actually I know of folks that have made a living buying domains that have a catchy sound to them so they can sit on it and wait for a company to come around (that actually operates by the name) asking to buy it.

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   quakerninja said 7 months ago

   That happened to the Barack Obama campaign. can’t remember what they payed for it, but it was ridiculous.

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   faithbydesign said 7 months ago

   gameyy said:

   quakerninja said: I have know Idea how domains work but I thought that you payed for the name so that no one else would use it. I was looking into intelligent design for a name but its taken so I dropped it. I’ll stick with quakerninja, google already loves it. To bad it couldn’t be go go dancer tryout ink or something ha ha.

   Actually I know of folks that have made a living buying domains that have a catchy sound to them so they can sit on it and wait for a company to come around (that actually operates by the name) asking to buy it.

   
   my friend bought firstkissproductions.com which is alicia silverstone’s movie company before she did. He gets calls on it all the time for places sending scripts, wanting her to do appearances, ect.

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   geoff said 7 months ago

   pizza.com just sold for over 2 million.

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   jfinley said 7 months ago

   faithbydesign said:

   gameyy said:

   quakerninja said: I have know Idea how domains work but I thought that you payed for the name so that no one else would use it. I was looking into intelligent design for a name but its taken so I dropped it. I’ll stick with quakerninja, google already loves it. To bad it couldn’t be go go dancer tryout ink or something ha ha.

   Actually I know of folks that have made a living buying domains that have a catchy sound to them so they can sit on it and wait for a company to come around (that actually operates by the name) asking to buy it.

   
   my friend bought firstkissproductions.com which is alicia silverstone’s movie company before she did. He gets calls on it all the time for places sending scripts, wanting her to do appearances, ect.

   Hah that’s hilarious.

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   faithbydesign said 7 months ago

   jfinley said:

   faithbydesign said:

   gameyy said:

   quakerninja said: I have know Idea how domains work but I thought that you payed for the name so that no one else would use it. I was looking into intelligent design for a name but its taken so I dropped it. I’ll stick with quakerninja, google already loves it. To bad it couldn’t be go go dancer tryout ink or something ha ha.

   Actually I know of folks that have made a living buying domains that have a catchy sound to them so they can sit on it and wait for a company to come around (that actually operates by the name) asking to buy it.

   
   my friend bought firstkissproductions.com which is alicia silverstone’s movie company before she did. He gets calls on it all the time for places sending scripts, wanting her to do appearances, ect.

   Hah that’s hilarious.

   she’s a huge animal rights activist and one time some uk animal rights conference wanted her to come and he said she would do it for a fur coat.

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   godmachine said 7 months ago

   political activists buy domains that are smilar to goverment addresses- and also make email names similar to ones in use by polititians.

   the reason- some one types in the wrong word/letter/symbol- and they get some juicy info.

   the last piece of info that we found from all that was the usa goverment actively making it impossible for troops and blacks to vote.

   they got away with it too.

   safety.

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    MadeByMAS said 7 months ago

    yeah I know tons of domain "realtor’s", I thought about getting into the business or just buying crappy sites flipping them, re doing the design and reselling them.

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    justgeoff said 7 months ago

    I’m calling my company Gow Media.

    I have a book and the publisher’s name is Guu Media.

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    jimiyo said 7 months ago

    Aye. Before I deicded to trademark a name, I investigated a bit.

    Found a marketing pdf that said,

    1. Odd names, like 'Snorgtees' would fair better than something like 'Active Creations' on the web. Odd names are easier to remember, and the latter would give you a million hit on google. And it comes through as generic.

    2. Make the logo a simple character that can express emotion, or be animated. IE) Cingular X guy. You know who he is, and you know he can move around and shit.

    I forget the rest. I might try to find it.

    I like that when you mispell jimiyo... you get

    A BADASS MOTHER!

    http://jimmyo.com

    

    or

    http://jimyo.com/

    

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    Pearls To Pigs said 7 months ago

    Mo Media Mo Problems

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    quakerninja said 7 months ago

    quakerninja is available but I can’t afford to buy it, should I jump on it or just wait it out, I’ve been useing the name since high school circa 96 That’s a long time for people to not put the words quaker and ninja together. I think I’m safe. I like that when I search quakerninja in google it ask If I mean Queer NInja. Can I sue Google for calling me a queer?

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    johnny123 said 7 months ago

    gomedialtd.com looks really good.

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    jasperketone said 7 months ago

    So did you guys really copy the Go Ventures logo? or was it from that Doritos Go Pack?

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    sjkaufman1 said 7 months ago

    Imitation is the biggest form of flattery...I guess. Although the guy that said that quote prolly just got done ripping off someone’s work.

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