While watching a little Fox News today, a bearded man was in a commercial talking about taxes and helping people solve tax debt.
The man never "said" the domain name of the business in the commercial, but the more I thought about it, how would of he said it? In text, near the bottom of the screen displayed the domain name txmstr.com . The companies name is Tax Masters.
Either the A, E and S were broke on their keyboard when they registered the domain name at 1&1 or it’s the new abbreviation for Tax and Masters I guess?
TXMSTR.com is one ugly domain name and IMO doesn’t even come close to TaxMasters.com. I would "create" a name and matching domain before advertising with that one….
Looking into the domain/site txmstr.com a little more, It looks like many past customers are very unhappy about the service provided according to ComplaintsBoard.com .
Just because a company owns a Premium Domain Name doesn’t always mean they provide a great service, but it’s more likely when a company has an Ugly Domain Name like txmstr.com that they will not have a very good BBB rating. No company is perfect, but I will stick with companies who pay up for a good domain that matches their name or product, as the company is also much more likely to provide quality service as well.
TaxMasters.com is a Parked Domain btw. Secondly, always use BBB.org before you purchase any service or work with a company.
Sammy Ashouri
LOL!!! I’ve been wanting to blog about this FOREVER! Finally someone does it. WORST DOMAIN ADVERTISED EVER! I’d do something along the line of taxmastershelp.com or taxmastersonline.com rather than the route they have taken,
Kevin Davis
I thought the same thing I’m glad you said something,Cheers
Stuart
Yup, me too. My wife and I always try and pronounce it – “Tecks Mestr.” Hell, even that would be better. BTW, I think I saw TaxMasters.com for sale on DNF a couple weeks back – I thought of Mr Patrick Cox and his need for this domain. Maybe he can WIPO it. Everyone else does.
Leonard Britt
Yes, while on the elliptical machine at the gym last week I saw one of those TXMSTR ads and mentioned to my wife how that name could be improved upon. There are numerous small businesses and many want a basic website even if they don’t necessarily do ecommerce. Often these businesses will register anything they can think of which is available. Those of us immersed in domains do notice the domains of businesses we see advertised at the movie theater, on billboards, etc. I have seen dentists and real estate brokers use .US while I once saw a scrap service with a horrible .COM domain I cannot recall but I noticed that the .NET domain for the sector they operated in was available. I thought about it but didn’t register it. But when you see a business with an awful domain, that could be an opportunity, right?
**Jamie Says**
“that could be an opportunity, right?”
For Sure but you better do some heavy educating in the sales process as well. Most of the people in these businesses have such hard heads, it’s nearly impossible to get your point across. Once they do “get it”, they will also be likely to be the first one to Low Ball you. lol
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One of my goals is to write something for the people who “Don’t get it”. The problem, it has to be Short and Sweet and there is so much that needs to be learned. In the end, my point that I have to get across…. Do what makes sense! Then putting a “price” on that making sense part, so it REALLY makes sense. Then they become Buyers!
CzarDomains
Yup,…agree.
Sometimes, short names are bad, better just get a descriptive name.
” A business w/o a sign is a sign of no business”
Saw that posting on a sign board.
wannadevelop.com
I’ve seen their commercial a couple of times on TV… Whoever came up with the idea for ever using that domain should be fired
Scott Fish
I saw this too and thought that they were crazy to believe that domain would be a good lead gen tool!
Daniel Sanchez
I think he lives in my town (Fort Myers) as his advertisements show a local number to call and the ads show every 5 minutes. I guess TaxMasters.com was takes lol
Lucas
His commercials are always on CNN – it’s the most BORING commercial in the world.
Whoever does his advertising has no creative skills. I means why does he face the camera so stiffly from a profile angle. Patrick Cox looks awfully dumb on TV.