Ring them up pretending to be a customer and grill them about being a limited company, see how they react.We're a LTD company, public business premises plus decent eCommerce presence.
I've just realised that an online-only competitor of ours has been referring to themselves on their .IE domain as a company - and they're not - they're a sole trader. "Welcome to XYZ LTD", "We are a company that.." - that sort of thing.
We spend a not insignificant amount of money to ensure that the public can trust us and our products (industry & security seals, public & product liability insurance etc) so I'm understandly miffed at this.
My first thought is to ring up the CRO and inform them of this and insist that the references be removed. Is this the standard way forward or is there something else I should be doing? (The .IE Domain Registry?). Will the the CRO take my complaint seriously or just think its sour grapes? (surely pretending you are LTD is illegal?).
Any help/thoughts appreciated, Cheers.
In order to register a .ie domain they must have produced some sort of paperwork to obtain the domain.
Of course not. Report them to the ODCE.
This isn't true - i registered a .ie domain last year simply by sending a signed fax into digiweb.ie stating that i was investigating a marketing idea and would like to market it under a particular brand name - had the domain name i requested within a day or so.
They have relaxed the rules now, but even before you didn't need to register a company, a registered business name would do. Cheaper to register than a company and none of the costs involved if you choose not to proceed whe venture.That's really interesting Nai as I've just had tp pay to form a company to register the domain I wanted. My preference would have been to delay the company setup until I had done more research on my service but the hosting company required the CRO Company No. before they would set me up.
I guess some of the hosting companies are more lax than others.
All the best.
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