Interesting website and oversight.

[u12armresl]

So you would think that the APA which is the largest pool league would have thought this out.
APAtournaments.com is a site not for APA pool, but the American Pickleball Association.

Wouldn't APA have a claim to that, like WWF and WWE type situation?

 

[DeeDeeCues]

So you would think that the APA which is the largest pool league would have thought this out.
APAtournaments.com is a site not for APA pool, but the American Pickleball Association.

Wouldn't APA have a claim to that, like WWF and WWE type situation?

Dang, I thought that was for the American Psychological Association tourney. I got the Jung award last year for dream shit, I was going for a real Oedipal thing this year to try for the Freud prize.

 

[MattPoland]

I think you lost the plot. They fumbled the ball on internet branding a long time ago. That’s why their website is POOLPLAYERS.COM

It’s not a terrible domain to have. But nobody is flocking to stumble across that either. There is nothing “APA” about it. Which can lead their visitors to wonder if they even are in the right place. APALEAGUES.COM would’ve made more sense. So obviously something like APATOURNAMENTS.COM would also evade them.

If you wanted to make a better point, why does APALEAGUES.COM go nowhere. Yet if you try APAPOOL.COM it redirects you to MARYLAND-EASTERNWESTVIRGINIA.APALEAGUES.COM. None of it makes any sense.

 

[maha]

better business associations do better and smarter things.

 

[MitchAlsup]

That is the kind of thing that happens when anyone can buy a web-site address (URL) for $10 a year.
The only condition is that nobody else has claim on the way the site name is spelled.

 

[Bob Jewett]

It seems like maybe they could have hired an expert in internet branding, but....

Years ago I worked for a part of Hewlett-Packard (HP) that was spun off into a separate multi-billion dollar company. A new name was needed, and a rebranding company was hired to figure out possible names, logos, and such. The name had to be short, catchy, and somehow appropriate. They decided on Agilent. Unfortunately, they failed to check on web names and agilent.com was already taken by a small company called Agile Enterprises. Agilent had to use a temporary web name until they bought agilent.com for a rumored seven figures.

 

[Bob Jewett]

So you would think that the APA which is the largest pool league would have thought this out.
APAtournaments.com is a site not for APA pool, but the American Pickleball Association.

Wouldn't APA have a claim to that, like WWF and WWE type situation?

The pickle ball people have at least as much right to use APA. I think sometimes when there is a really nasty use of internet names that there is a way to stop it, but the people who give out those names don't want to get between feuding parties who both have a reasonable claim. They go by whoever got it first, usually.

 

[Badpenguin]

The pickle ball people have at least as much right to use APA. I think sometimes when there is a really nasty use of internet names that there is a way to stop it, but the people who give out those names don't want to get between feuding parties who both have a reasonable claim. They go by whoever got it first, usually.

Trademark laws apply. If someone already has APA in a domain name, that is not related to pool but in a different field (pickleball for example), too bad. If it is someone squatting on a domain name that has never actually used it other than to extort money, the trademark owner will probably win. Otherwise, buy up all of the similar domain names in all of the TLDs (.com, .net, .info, and so on) so no one else gets them first.