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A brief history of domains

Domain name registration started in earnest in the early days of the Internet, when people started to cotton onto the fact that domain names could be used for

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

something other than novelty or specialized technical duties.

There were heady growth levels as new domain name registrations expanded like wildfire through the available and common doma

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

in suffixes (.com, .net and local country domains such as .com.au and .net.au for Australia). Every man and their dog starting a business, registering a business or trying to capitalize o

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

n a new business concept was using everything from common names and brands, to locations, nouns, adjectives, fantasies and business concepts. If you multiply this by the number of people

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

allying in the Internet then one can start to appreciate the volume of new domain registrations that were occurring on a daily basis - the stuff of which Dot Com dreams were made.

Dot Co

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

m Crash

Everything that goes up must come down, as the saying goes… It started one morning in May in 2000, with colossal losses in listed stocks on Nasdaq, closely followed by each of th

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

e relevant local markets around the world.

One of the flow-on effects was one of massively reduced new domain name registrations, followed by a delayed but equally colossal fall in the n

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

umber of domain renewals around the world.

According to sources within the domain name registration and renewal industry, this severly affected domain name registrations, domain renewals

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

and domain redelegation to the point where domain companies were required to scale back their operations considerably, planning for survival rather than growth.

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and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

n all the dust settled, people and business alike finally started to work out that the very same properties that had lead to the impressive growth in domains still held true, and slowly c

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

olour started to return to the cheeks of domain registration companies worldwide.

Domain name registration growth has reflected this overall mood and returned to healthy levels as users

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

around the world both register and renew domains that are used for many different purposes.

Domains Dos and Don'ts

Many people have since realized that domain names can be used sensibly

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

practically, cleverly and creatively to deliver a clear and accurate branding message and facilitate business or even personal communications. Just in case people have missed all the fun

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

until now, below is a list of some simple Dos and Don’ts that should enable an individual, whether it they are starting a new business, registering a business or business concept, or jus

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

t improving the branding of an existing company to select an appropriate domain name.

Do:

- Keep your domain name as short as possible

- Try to avoid initials in your domain name (the

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

y mean nothing to people or search engines)

- Keep your domain as close to your company name as possible

- Look at your competitors’ domains to get a feel for how they have chosen the

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

- Make a list (you may find that your choices have already been taken)

- Bounce your domain name off friends and/or service providers you trust

- Keep your expectations realistic (

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

one domain does not a fat bank account make)

Don’t

- Go for the record of the longest domain name unless that’s exactly what you intend to achieve

- Rush! No one is going to leap in

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

and get that domain name that will make you a million overnight (and it won’t anyway – don’t blame me…)

- Give up. Online success takes perseverance and patience but the time and effort

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

you put in should pay off

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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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