Domaining with my Son (6.Viewing)

So I guess I have to brag a little about my son.

We were at the Mercedes-Benz dealership looking at some cars when we noticed the most insane domain name ever.



Are you ready for this....

Mercedes-Benz-Kitchener-Waterloo.com & mercedes-benz-kitchener-waterloo.ca

and if that is not bad enough the email address is info@mercedes-benzkw.com



My son smiled and said....

Dad lets check mbkw.ca

Guess what? It was available and he bought it right away.



I emailed my friend at:

ujetter@mercedes-Benzkw.com and asked him what he thought of uwe@mbkw.ca

Wink Wink, sow the seeds



The most confusing part about all of this was their email address is completely different from the main domain.

I told them to forward mbkw.ca to mercedes-benz-kitchener-waterloo.ca and to us @mbkw.ca for email.



Did they listen?

HeHe... nope



My son Kameron (K1D) is 13 and knows more about domaining and the value of domains than those so called smart business men.

I was looking at real estate recently and I often just take a picture of the for sale sign to follow up on later because they usually the realtors name, phone number and often a domain name. After a day out doing drive bys I came home and started going through the pictures and checking out listings. One for sale sign I took a picture of contained ONLY the realtors domain name. When I went to his website, it did not resolve! When I checked the Whois the domain name was available! Oh boy! If covid doesn’t get em....

MapleDots said:

Mercedes-Benz-Kitchener-Waterloo.com & mercedes-benz-kitchener-waterloo.ca

and if that is not bad enough the email address is info@mercedes-benzkw.com

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I emailed my friend at:

ujetter@mercedes-Benzkw.com and asked him what he thought of uwe@mbkw.ca

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Kitchener Waterloo. Mercedes. Lots of hyphens. First name "Uwe". Must be run by Germans ;-) But even for Germans, this domain is too long. And then the inconsistency between email and website, they must have noticed it was too long and/or thought stuffing keywords in the domain would help their SEO. Oh my.

Yeah we where out looking at cars when i noticed the website name on the side of a billboard, and i thought to myself that this was a really long name and that I should see if there was any way to shorten it. And sure enough mbkw.ca was available and now that they know there is no way they can go back to their old websire without thinking about this domain name. :lol:

That is the web address

They use info@mercedes-Benzkw.com for email


Again they could redirect: MBKW.ca to Mercedes-Benz-Kitchener-Waterloo.ca

and use info@mbkw.ca for email




So irritating to see them even use a .com for email, who is their iT guy?

I'm surprised it fits on the sign.