Holding company

[philip41]

Not to sure if the thread title is correct or not, but.

I am a co director of Broadwater Conservatories, we have an idea for a website, the site will be used for lead capture, the leads would be used by ourselves for our own use, there may be a few out of our area of operations, these can be sold on.

Today I have purchased the domain name, this then got us thinking, what happens if someone else sets up a company and it happens to have the same name as our domain name, to us it seems logical to register the same name of the domain name, and set it up as a company.

How could we make this as simple as possible, could we have it that broadwater is responsible for all the VAT, corporation tax etc etc.

I hope I have made myself clear enough.

Phil

 

[Paul Murakami]

It is common to register company names in order to prevent competitors using the same name. However, it only gives limited protection, and it may not prevent others registering names which you consider to be similar.

In order to protect trading names more widely, a trade mark registration would be more effective - but this comes with a greater cost. If successful, a trade mark registration should enable you to stop others using a similar or identical name for similar or identical goods or services. A trade mark agent will be able to tell you about the procedure and the costs involved.