C3.com is in use. There is a high-level domain called .xyz which I did not know existed.
So..."c3.xyz" is available and could be used. It would be easy to remember but would it be confusing? Would you just automatically type in c3.xyz or would the .xyz be confusing?
Billy
EDIT: Actually C3.com is for sale at $3895.00....no thanks
Last edited by Planobilly; 12/25/2105:21 AM.
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So..."c3.xyz" is available and could be used. It would be easy to remember but would it be confusing? Would you just automatically type in c3.xyz or would the .xyz be confusing?
With such a simple name, you're never going to find an available domain that's obvious and easy to remember, so go for interesting. That one isn't bad. Don't forget to check out the country code domains, too, they're only 2 letters.
You could also contact the Crescent Commercial Corporation and ask if they'd let you use a hidden subdirectory like www.c3.com/band (but why are they selling their domain if they're still using it?)
C3.com is not being used, only someone bought it and they are trying to resell it for a profit.
There are a couple of big companies with the name C3. All of the short .com names have been put in use or bought up for resale.
“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
The whole C3 thing was not my idea, to begin with, but it is easy to remember.
“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
You are correct Mark. I did not type in the whole thing . Only c3.com Perhaps the c3.com for sale thing is a scam. who knowes
“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
If the URL isn’t .COM then you have to consider that people will forget what you used, enter just the first part, and get directed to the .COM site (and get mighty confused). So if you cannot find a .COM URL then you must find a totally memorable substitute. I like Mark’s suggestion.
The safest solution is to find a unique name where you can register all related suffixes. Longdomainname.com AND Longdomainname.BAND etc.
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Yes Matt I agree. Easier said than done in today's world.
Eddie, It has no meaning to me but has some esoteric numerology meaning to the singer.
I like it because it is simple and easy to remember. c3.xyz is also easy to remember and sort of catchy but who would know that .xyz is a high-level domain name.
Band names are always a problem on many levels, both legally and what people can remember.
My old band name was called Superblue. Everyone remembered and changed that into Superglue...go figure. Well most of us did stick together...lol
I am trying to leave my past in the past and adapt to what younger people like and think. Not easy for an old guy...lol Also I am only willing to play a certain amount of discordant illogically devised "modern" music. So...I don't know where all this going for sure. Band name or music.
The exposure gap is pretty wide between most of us here and what younger people are exposed to. That was pretty evident when I ask who "LP" was. 900 million views, writes songs for super famous people and none of us knew she existed.
This is 2022 and we are not going to put a poster up on a telephone pole so all this domain name stuff is important.
Billy
Last edited by Planobilly; 12/25/2107:40 AM.
“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
I like it because it is simple and easy to remember.
You keep mentioning it being easy to remember. That's why "band" or "rocks" is a great domain choice. Aren't you going to advertise? Have business cards?
Also remember that everybody isn't our age and "enjoying" the accompanying memory issues associated with old people. Know what I mean, Bobby?
I remember going to your site back then, Notes, after seeing your ad in Recording Magazine or similar.
Around 1994-95, I was writing some of the first websites in my county and recognized that I should register several domain names. I got my name, my company name, and my band’s name. Then I built one website that handled all three as an integrated combination.
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The people who buy domain names for the sole purpose of selling them make things even harder.
That's called domain squatting and it's deplorable.
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I've heard (check it out if interested) that if your name is copyrighted, others can't register it.
C3.com is an active, working web page for a business in Montreal. They aren't squatting on the domain name.
C3.band sounds like the best option here.
That whole ".com or bust" thing is for people of a certain age who remember when it was just com, net, org and edu. There are now 100s of suffixes if not 1000s. I remember those years well. I was using the internet when it was all text. No graphics. It ran on Unix/Linux and used a program called Lynx. I thought it was real cool to run "whois" commands to find people with the same ethnic last name as mine and email them. That had to have been like 1991 or 1992. By comparison, Lynx was AWFUL! But it DID let me explore more of the virtual world.
Here we had Cleveland Freenet, hosted by Case-Western Reserve University. 2 professors, Tom Grundner and Ray Neff, ran the thing from about 1990 to late 1999, when they had to shut it down because it was not Y2K compatible and no funding to make it so. I was the admin of the MIDI Forum, which gave me unlimited time on the system. (I still remember my admin login as AA611.) Public callers had a 40 minute time limit. From there I could use Telnet to go anywhere that was a valid host. Just type in TELNET harvard.edu and there I was. From there I could look at forum rooms, find people... Berklee was a fun pace to go, though they were a little more locked down. Just enter w from a prompt and you see who's on. Those were the days. Makes me want to set up a Linux box again! And I DO have a spare computer. Hmmmmm...
Bear in mind that “C3“ means a couple of things already: my first thought was “communications, command, control”. It’s also a plastic explosive. The “band” TLD makes it clear what you are, and that you’re not some component of the military-industrial complex.
PS - Reading up on C3 found me reading up on nitroglycerin in Wikipedia, and I found it entertaining how many catastrophes it took for people to finally get the idea that you can’t just toss a crate of this stuff in the back of your wagon and rumble off to a construction site.
Where did you see that c3.com is for sale for $3853? Can you link me to it? I'd like to see how a working, functional business domain's name is for sale. It could also be a scammer trying to wrench $3850 out of somebody.
PS. I own eastsideeddie.com. You can have it for $75,000! Just enough to pay off my house, car and credit cards.
I typed in c3.com domain for sale and a site came up advertising it for sale. That does not seem to work this morning. It was likely a scam. There is a c3.fi being advertized ...valid or not who knows.
Yesterday when I typed in c3.com nothing came up. If I typed in www.c3.com Crescent Corp came up. Today, when I type in c3.com Crescent Corp, comes up.
Now that we have spent all this time talking about the c3 stuff, no one has answered my original question.
The question is " will people recognize ".xyz" as a "high level" domain. And the more important question is IF they remember c3.xyz will they understand that they can type that in ad get to a website just like typing in c3.com or perhaps they are required to type in www.c3.xyz
There were other arcane reasons I liked the .xyz. The domain name came about both because the three letters are the last in the Latin-script alphabet, and to refer to people from Generations X, Y, and Z.
And to add insult to injury when I type in www.c3.xyz there is a website called Corridor3 which makes the information on go daddy invalid.
So we can mark this as a dead issue.
Billy
Last edited by Planobilly; 12/26/2107:00 AM.
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