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business names

  • 06-03-2011 7:32pm
    #1
    scully74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭


    I want to set up a business using a particular name, I did a search on the CRO and there is another business with the same name but in a different (Far away) county, can I still use this name?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    scully74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭scully74


    Also thet don't have the .ie purchased, which I intend to buy, can they challenge me for this later, if they have set up first.


  • #3
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    You can register it with CRO anyway, there can be more than one, and you can buy the .ie, if they wanted it they should have bought so it's fair game.


  • #4
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    TBH I doubt you'll even be allowed to register the .ie, you have no legitimate claim on it.


  • #5
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    Spadina wrote: »
    You can register it with CRO anyway, there can be more than one, and you can buy the .ie, if they wanted it they should have bought so it's fair game.

    Really? Two companies registered with the same name?


  • #6
    scully74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭scully74


    JustinOval wrote: »
    Really? Two companies registered with the same name?


    I think it only matters as a LTD company, I'm going as sole trader.....as for the .ie why not? they haven't bothered, once I register the name, can't I can buy the .ie


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  • #7
    scully74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭scully74


    JustinOval wrote: »
    TBH I doubt you'll even be allowed to register the .ie, you have no legitimate claim on it.

    Can you explain, why I cannot?


  • #8
    R3al
    Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭R3al


    company names normally have to be unique but the same business name can be registered by different traders/people/businesses, once you have registered the business name you will be as entitled to the .ie domain as the other business which has registered the same name, and in fact you are perfectly entitled to reserve the .ie domain name while you wait for the CRO business name registration application to be completed


  • #9
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    scully74 wrote: »
    Can you explain, why I cannot?

    I didn't think you could use somebody else's existing business names for your own business. Every day is a school day.


  • #10
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Yep, you can, if it's just a business name. There was a thread about something similar just a few days ago, search function is your friend.

    And how does the OP not have a legitimate claim on it? If his/her business is a connected name and he/she can show the appropriate proof needed there is no reason why not.


  • #11
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    Spadina wrote: »
    Yep, you can, if it's just a business name. There was a thread about something similar just a few days ago, search function is your friend.

    And how does the OP not have a legitimate claim on it? If his/her business is a connected name and he/she can show the appropriate proof needed there is no reason why not.

    I explained that above, reading is your friend.


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  • #12
    Irish Fire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Irish Fire


    scully74 wrote: »
    I think it only matters as a LTD company, I'm going as sole trader.....as for the .ie why not? they haven't bothered, once I register the name, can't I can buy the .ie

    You are right..... You would be Joe Public t/a AN OTHER COMPANY

    Best of luck with your start up hope all goes well, it's the S.M.E. that will get the country out of this current position.


  • #13
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    JustinOval wrote: »
    I explained that above, reading is your friend.

    No you didn't, you said you didn't know about both aspects? And I was saying that to the OP, not you.


  • #14
    Irish Fire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Irish Fire


    Now now folks leave the fight for the back of the bike shed.........


  • #15
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    Spadina wrote: »
    No you didn't, you said you didn't know about both aspects? And I was saying that to the OP, not you.

    I commented about the legitimate claim on .ie, as I wasn't aware a single business name could be registered by two different people, and the .ie registration would require proof of this.
    That is all, I was mistaken and I have admitted that.


  • #16
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    .....


  • #17
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    Doom wrote: »
    .....

    What's that then? The five Morse dots of the apocalypse?


  • #18
    rolion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    I reckon that CRO will perform a search...there is a nationwide database of all names live/active in the Country,not in a County.Names equal t/a,business names,LTDs and so on...
    If is a simillar name,more than likely your application will be refused and reason given.

    Re .ie domain,is coming at first served,if you have the correct supporting documentation.IEDR will approve once you have legal supported backed documentation.
    I had a simillar issue recently,approached the owner and he said that not willing to give up on his .ie domain registered long before my client thought to apply for internet domain.End of story,began looking for another domain name.


  • #19
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    rolion wrote: »
    I reckon that CRO will perform a search...there is a nationwide database of all names live/active in the Country,not in a County.Names equal t/a,business names,LTDs and so on...
    If is a simillar name,more than likely your application will be refused and reason given.

    Just to point out that there were two other businesses in Dublin (1.5 hrs from me) that had the same name as me and all 3 were registered with CRO, so if CRO do do a check I don't know what they're guidelines for it are.


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