I am in the process of starting a website/company. We have a website named “x” (for example) and we are also needing to register a company. For the company type we have chosen to register and LLC. Currently we went ahead and registered a randomly named LLC to pretect the name of the website until we trademark the name. Then our plans are to change the name of our LLC to the website name. I’ll use Yahoo for example.
Yahoo.com was created and they we looking into creating a company out of it. They wanted to trademark the name Yahoo but needed a copy to trademark it to. Therefore to protect the name they registered a incorporation using the name Yohaa then registered the trademark Yahoo to Yohaa and then changed the name of the inc. from Yohaa to Yahoo. So now the they have the company Yahoo Inc with with name yahoo trademarked and Yahoo.com copyrighted to them.
More examples:
Google.com – Google Inc
Twitter.com – Twitter LLC
Myspace.com – Inc.
Yahoo.com – Yahoo! Inc.
Purevolume.com – Purevolume Inc
What are the benefits of having your company name the same as your website?
This is probably a little difficult to understand, ask if you need more information.
Thanks!