Ask HN: Is naming our hosting service ghostr.org taking advantage?

2 points by agustinf 12y ago ↗ HN

We had the discussion with my business partner. I saw an opportunity on having the ghostr.org domain available, but maybe he's right and it just seems we're trying to cheat on people by naming it just a character away from ghost. Should we change it?

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marssaxman 12y ago ↗

What makes you think this would be taking advantage of people? Is there some well known hosting provider named Ghost, which I've never heard of? ghost.com seems to be some symantec forwarding nonsense. What is it you're worried about?

agustinf 12y ago ↗

You're right I didn't make myself clear, sorry.. it's because we offer hosting for Ghost (the new open source blogging platform) and their url is ghost.org ...

ashraful 12y ago ↗

Perhaps you should reach out to the folks behind Ghost (http://ghost.org/about/contact/) and ask if its ok to use the name ghostr.

dylanhassinger 12y ago ↗

its not taking advantage but you should still pick something else

its only a matter of time till they crack down on things with the ghost in the title, every company does eventually.

Instead change your name to something ghost-y but without that word.