I second the suggestion above to register a domain name as quickly as possible if it's not already taken. I've missed out on good domain names in the past (not cryptocurrency-related ones though) because I waited several days too long and yeah, it really sucks. Same thing happened to the guy who owns CoinLearn.org too:
Link: http://coinfire.io/2014/06/23/behind-faucets/
If this happens to you then your only options are to either register a variant of the domain that you wanted (e.g. xcoin.net or getxcoin.com instead of xcoin.com) or to ask the owner to sell you the domain and potentially pay many times the cost of registration.
^^^ That is to reserve the username in the forum.
After that, you should head over to the altcoin announcements section, and make a pre-announcement of your coin.
Update the thread every now and then and you should be good.
I suggest you ninja launch keep all name secret till you have a working coin on test-net and ready to launch. Registered trademarks are a good idea but are costly and time consuming, also they come with no guarantee that a thief won't come copy your name or take your idea. Look at Peercoin where the other DEV ran off and created Primecoin, or with us when we pre-ann here our name was jacked with a basic scrypt copy before we could even launch. Loose lips sink ships.
Sunny King is the main dev for both Peercoin and Primecoin. Scott Nadal originally contributed to the development Peercoin but his involvement with the coin diminished later on. Peercoin has more active development these days and Sunny King is behind most of it so I'm not sure what you mean by saying that he ran off.
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CoinLearn: 1. For months, while I was developing the site including logo, I knew CoinLearn.com was free. It got booked the day before I tried to actually book it online. So, again I needed to decide which domain I needed to settle upon and change logo and texts accordingly.
Link: http://coinfire.io/2014/06/23/behind-faucets/
If this happens to you then your only options are to either register a variant of the domain that you wanted (e.g. xcoin.net or getxcoin.com instead of xcoin.com) or to ask the owner to sell you the domain and potentially pay many times the cost of registration.
Just make the account with the coin name and voilà. You reserved your name.
^^^ That is to reserve the username in the forum.
After that, you should head over to the altcoin announcements section, and make a pre-announcement of your coin.
Update the thread every now and then and you should be good.
I suggest you ninja launch keep all name secret till you have a working coin on test-net and ready to launch. Registered trademarks are a good idea but are costly and time consuming, also they come with no guarantee that a thief won't come copy your name or take your idea. Look at Peercoin where the other DEV ran off and created Primecoin, or with us when we pre-ann here our name was jacked with a basic scrypt copy before we could even launch. Loose lips sink ships.
Sunny King is the main dev for both Peercoin and Primecoin. Scott Nadal originally contributed to the development Peercoin but his involvement with the coin diminished later on. Peercoin has more active development these days and Sunny King is behind most of it so I'm not sure what you mean by saying that he ran off.