The domain-name crunch is a difficult problem for many businesses on the Internet. If you don't own a recognizable, easy-to-spell domain name that ends in .com, you may have a hard time getting people to your web site, or keeping them coming back. Tenebril solves this problem with its DirectNames service, offered through its NetBrilliant product. You can purchase a DirectName, an English word or phrase without dots and slashes, that will link NetBrilliant users right to your site. The next section describes DirectNames in more detail, and the subsequent section allows you to buy your own DirectNames.

Information

DirectNames lets you buy whatever domain name you want. And it doesn't have to be in Internet format; you could buy "John's Cheeses" or "StickyNote" or "buy books online." Whenever a NetBrilliant user searches for your DirectName, he will be taken instantly to your site. This makes life easier for NetBrilliant users; they don't have to waste time searching, and they don't have to remember arcane web addresses. It also allows you to channel the hundreds of thousands of NetBrilliant users to your web address. DirectNames are cost-effective ways of getting targetted traffic; the people who come to your web site via DirectNames are interested in exactly what you do, because they entered your DirectName.

Advantages

There are other Internet services that offer new types of domain names. DirectNames has a number of advantages over these. First, DirectNames is the least expensive of them all, by far. You can afford to buy a DirectName and not worry about its paying for itself. Second, DirectNames is case-insensitive. You don't have to buy "John's Cheeses" and "john's cheeses" and "John's cheeses" and "JOHN'S CHEESES." Just buy one; they will all work. Third, there can be more than one owner of a DirectName; this is really how DirectNames solves the original domain name crunch problem. If you sell cheeses, you could buy "cheese" or "buy cheese," even if someone else already has it. When NetBrilliant users search for "buy cheese," our proprietary search interface will open with only the DirectName owners. They can search through the few sites, or visit them all, quickly and easily. Fourth, you can enter a description of your web site. This helps users find exactly what they want, and gets more interested and valuable traffic to your site.

Join the Network

NetBrilliant's user base is growing faster every day. Tenebril is employing a new "send a friend" policy that has exploded NetBrilliant usage. NetBrilliant is listed as a professional product; that is, users have to pay for it. But if they send it to five friends, they get it for free. We are also offering incentives to web sites that support NetBrilliant. If you put a NetBrilliant logo on your DirectName site, we'll give you a substantial discount on your DirectName registration fee. This helps NetBrilliant, but it also helps you; the more NetBrilliant users, the larger the market for your DirectName, and the more valuable it becomes. Today there are well over 200,000 NetBrilliant users.

Try it Out

Using NetBrilliant, try searching for "Tenebril". You will notice that you are not taken to the search window, but directly to Tenebril's home page. Now try searching for "StickyNote". You'll see two pages appear; the main page, and the help page. There are two DirectNames for StickyNote, and one DirectName for Tenebril.

Get your Own

To purchase your own DirectName, please fill out the information below. Once you've finished, hit the "Continue" button.