My wife thinks I’m nuts. Moving down the toll road in Chicago at a good clip, family packed in the car, fumbling for my iPhone. I struggle to stay on the road while I snap a quick shot of a billboard that I know will only be in view for a few seconds. Strange enough that I’m taking snapshots while driving, but the advertisement I capture clearly states Fathers’ Rights. She looks over at me with an eyebrow raised, What are you doing? I fire back with, Did you see that domain name?
The domain name on the billboard is DadsRights.com, and to be honest, it’s a great name. Not because it has thousands of Google exact match monthly searches (it doesn’t), and not because it came out of Rick Schwartz vault of killer domain names from 1993 (it didn’t). The main reason this is a great domain is because it is perfect for the business that is using it.
Jeffery Leving is an attorney specializing in fathers’ rights. If you live in the Chicago area, you have likely seen his television advertisements that appear on the local stations. DadsRights.com is perfect because it’s:
- Short
- Descriptive
- Highly Meaningful
In this niche of the law, DadsRights.com is far better than anything I can immediately think of. If you happen to have a need for this type of service in your life, even flying down the road, you’ll remember this domain when you get to work or home from a rough day at the office.
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Ha ha nice snapshot! Don’t be driving off the road trying to get a good picture of a domain name!
@Michael, Good advice. I think I’ll pull over next time 🙂
The only thing that would have made it better were if the billboard was titled “Dads’ Rights” OR the domain was “Fathers’ Rights.com” Seems like they might get a little bit of bleed off to a competitor. In fact, They should have just put the domain up there…self descriptive.
@Chip, Great point. If they have the domain DadsRights.com, then the billboard title should match.
Was thinking same line with chip. I also wonder how much traffic there giving up and sending too fathersrights.com or fatherrights.com as a typo goof
I agree love it. Dadsrights.com and great name.
@Jeff, ideally they would own both (dads and fathers).
Good rules. Word order is important too. So, rightsdad.com is obviously less valuable than dadsrights.com, because the latter is more common in every day usage. I wouldn’t buy a domain if the word order is wrong – even if the appraisal value is high.
Also, I agree with short – as long as it’s still descriptive. For a giant billboard like this, dadsrights.com works – but, dadslegalrights.com might be slightly more descriptive.
@Danny – absolutely, word order is critical. I learned that lesson with some geo terms.