Securing Your Company Name Online - Four Handy Tools

Fear not - you no longer have to trawl through each and every social media/social bookmarking site to find out if your name is free. Here are some handy time-saving tools to help you on your way.

ud.com is a really user-friendly website which checks social media usernames,domain names and whether there are registered trademarks associated with the name. All you need to do is enter your company name and click on search....this site does all the legwork for you.

namechecklist.com is a similar site which does exactly the same as ud.com.

If you own a trademark check out tm.biz - it's a resource for trademark owners which searches, watches and reserves trademarks across hundreds of online member-based communities. The watch service sends you handy email alerts when someone reserves your trademark as a username at over 500 social networks. They will also reserve your trademark across however many networks you want. This site is a brilliant idea for businesses who are pressured for time and don't want to miss out on their social usernames.

namechk.com is another site to which checks to see if your username is available at a much wider range of social networking and bookmarking sites. If you are new to social media then this site is especially useful as it will show you a wide range of these websites so you can browse them and select the ones you feel most appropriate for your business.

Happy Socialising!

Posted by Dan at 26/08/2010 12:43:00