Registering Business name with .ie in the name

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catherined61

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Hi I wonder can anyone help me. I have a business idea which will take a wee while to get off the ground. I want to register my business name with CRO but I read on another thread (which I now cant find !) that one cant register a business name with the .ie in the title. Is this right ? Or do you have to be a limited company.

Here's an example:

Let's say I want to set up an internet florists and decide to be sole trader and I want to call the business:

- niceflowers.ie.

I go to register the name with CRO but if they dont let me use .ie in the name, would I have to register as "NiceFlowers" ?

Would it be then: Catherine Dxxxxx t/a Nice Flowers (with a website [broken link removed]) or could I say Catherine Dxxxxx t/a niceflowers.ie.

From a marketing and advertising perspective I would like the business to be called niceflowers.ie.

I find the CRO site a bit difficult to navigate.

I heard an ad on the radio today advertising 123.ie so it must be possible to call a business using .ie although I see that they are a limited company and not sole trader.

Anyone able to shed light please?

Thanks
 
Doesn't that ad on the radio also say "Gallagher Holdings trading as 123.ie ..."?

Update: misheard it and I see that the correct info is on their website:
Gallabar Holdings Ltd t/a 123.ie is regulated by the Financial Regulator.
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Yes it said "Gallabar holdings ltd t/a 123.ie is regulated by the financial regulator" on the ad which is the same as their website but my question is if they are able to have a business name of 123.ie surely I can have niceflowers.ie. The thread in question was posted by "poconn" I think but I can't find it on search facilty.

I don't think you can have a number in a ltd company name either ?
 
If you do a company search on the CRO website you will see that "123.ie" seems to be registered three times as a business name! Whatever that all means it certainly looks like you can register a business name of the form <something>.ie which ideally matches your domain name. There's also another company registered named "123.ie Internet Services Limited" so I'm not sure about the "no numbers in a limited company name" comment.
 
Register your business i.e niceflowers or something similar and simply take the .ie or ask a hosting company to book it for you.


niceflowers.ie can be a trading name however once you have the internet address booked no-one is likely to want to try to trade using that name.

If you're adamant about that .ie get the domain quick and dont hang about
 
123.ie is a registered business name BUT the CRO changed their rules in the last 18 months, so as far as I know you can no longer register business names that include ".ie"

If you want to register niceflowers.ie all you'd need is a business name connected to flowers in some way...
 
Hi there,

Think you should forget about the .ie part, its really only an internet naming convention to represent Irish domains. You could always just register Nice Flowers Ireland or Nice Flowers IE with the CRO if it really mattered that much to you?.

Note that you wont be able to register the domain name www.niceflowers.ie with having registered the business name first or at least having the application number from the CRO application. They are very particular when registering .ie domains for some reason.

If you business is just going to be internet based then everyone will call it niceflowers.ie anyway?.

Hope this helps...
 
Oi thanks for the replies! My business would be a web based one and therefore the .ie is important to me from a marketing aspect. If the CRO changed their rules that would explain the 123.ie bit BUT if I registered "niceflowers" as a business name, I could get "niceflowers.ie" as ie domain BUT could I call my business "niceflowers.ie" when trading ?
 
Yes, blacknight is correct. Used to be able to register a business name with .com as I did it myself a few years back. Assume same applies to .ie
. I believe its no longer possible.
 
You can trade as niceflowers.ie if you want to. Its just a trading name
 
You don't need the .ie in the name.... but you can have it if you want.....


you need proof that you have a connection to the name, the .ie is implied when asked for an Irish domain and does not need to be part of the registed business name/company name....
 
I registered a .ie domain name as a business name 3 years ago. I havent registered the .ie yet and decided on a different name.

What happens to my .ie business name if someone registers the same name as a .ie domain and can they do this despite my having the business name with a .ie ?
 
Happened to be in town and called into the CRO office in Parnell Square.

They confirmed that it was no longer possible to have .ie in a business name.
 

You have to have a registered business name to get a .ie domain name. I tried that at first, I was looking for a certain domain name <mysite>.ie. I was very supprised that it was even available. But the fact is that without a business reg number you cant register an irish domain with .ie and the domain name and your business name have to have something to do with each other. ie If you were a painter and called your business john painting and decorating you would not be aloud call your website cars.ie.

I'm not great at explaining this stuff but i think you should get what im saying

Cheers

Eoin
 
This is cheekey but what about registering "nice flowers dot Eye E". That way in an audio ad you could use it as the trading name for your company.

The RBN does absolutely nothing to legally protect a name. If you register a company name no other company can have the same name. For the greatest protection of name you need to register a Trade Mark with the Patents Office in Kilkenny.


Re ".ie" names and having a RBN - the IEDR (IE domain registration) require you to have some interest in the url that you wish to register. I assume this is to avoid Cyber Squatting. While a registered business name is not the only way to prove an interest - it is the easiest - just register it with the CRO on line, print it off and send to the CRO with a cheque for €20 - job done.
 
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