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To: Coaster123 who wrote (5960)	7/16/1998 2:36:00 PM
From: Data Miner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 43774

Good points from all on the URL name: Yes it is not identical to the company name, yes it is better that it be identical. 'itrader' or any other derrivation is still different and thus not really much (if any) better than 'insidertradin'. I bet they discussed it... No this should not impact the website rollout, and yes the company should certainly attempt to obtain the 'insidertrading' URL as quickly as possible. It is possible to negotiate for it if the price is right. I think we will find this to be a pointless arguement other than to encourage the company to pursue the 'insidertrading' URL - and I bet you will find that they are already looking into it. I have emailed John a couple of times over the last few weeks but perhaps it would be better if someone like Reason or kevinl bring it up with him as a valid concern since they seem to have his ear. It is hard to say what kind of impact this name difference will have. Depends on who you ask I guess. Probably not much.

To: Coaster123 who wrote (5960)	7/17/1998 7:41:00 AM
From: Michael Bendner	Respond to of 43774

Just adding my own 5.3 cents to this domain name issue. Judging from personal experience, I agree that the clumsy www.insidertradin.com will have some effect on the effectiveness of PRWT's web presence. In 1995, I founded the first web-based publication dedicated to computer games. This was in an era when web publications as a whole were a very new thing (except for Wired, there wasn't much out there yet). For some stupid reason, I thought that PC Multimedia & Entertainment Magazine would be a good name for a site whose target audience was almost exclusively gamers, and the URL logically followed: pcme.com. Within a year of our launch, numerous similar sites had sprung up, with more clever names like www.gamespot.com. Word of mouth kept us going, but to this day the site gets considerably fewer visitors than some of the other (some would say, inferior <g>) sites that had the good sense to grab themselves a catchy name. Of course, there are notable exceptions -- The Happy Puppy Games Site (http://www.happypuppy.com), founded in 1995 (shortly preceding PCME) by my good friend Sandra Woodruff, was one of the most heavily visited sites not only in the gaming community but on the Internet (ranking high with microsoft.com and netscape.com on the traffic charts) for most of 1995 and 1996. Make of this what you will. Personally, I'm not too concerned at this point, although it would probably be a good idea to look at alternative domain names once everything is up and running smoothly (and possibly before the advertising blitz begins). One of my favorite sites is... tradebps.com Thank God for bookmarks! :-) Michael Bendner