Can I use a website with a different name to my business name?

[Bartendersfetish]

Hi everyone,

I am currently in a business partnership which has the registered name BartendersFetish.com. However we have recently decided to side track from our original line of business and open up a side project to run alongside.
Can I use a different name for the website if I display our business name somewhere on the site or would we need to register the name as another business?

Any help on this would be great!

Thanks,

Tommy

 

[fisicx]

You can set up a website with anyname you like, it doesn't have to have any connection to your fetish site...

 

[cmcp]

If you're trading through the website it's likely you'll have to reveal your registered company details.

 

[KateCB]

the short answer is yes, however as previously stated, if the bartendersfetish is a limited company then you will have to list your registered trading name on the new website. You can of course change the limited company name to something less innocuous whilst still keeping the bartendersfetish.com website - then when you have several websites doing different things they can be listed on each website as bartenderfish.com a member of the abc Ltd group of companies or daffofilds4u.com a member of the abc Ltd group of companies etc.

 

[sigmais]

people like to use the same name for both website and company name because your customer can memorize your website easily. However, that's nothing wrong to have different website name if you like to

 

[Bartendersfetish]

Thanks to everyone who has replied and the bartendersfetish site isn't as bad as most of you might think. haha

 

[VeryMark]

The basic legal requirement is that, whatever name you trade under, the legal name and address of the owner of the business has to be also given.

 

[Gint]

Short answer. Use the same name.

 

[MASSEY]

Short answer. Use the same name.

Well that's the wrong answer.

 

[unet]

anything you like really - try grabbing a .com or a .co.uk if you only trading in the uk