There was some speculation in the press that the name of Mark's business and website had already been claimed by others: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...d-to-fail.html

Indeed, climbonline.com and climbonline.co.uk do already exist.

However, in the last program the point was made that that name sounds too much like clim bon line, so it should be hyphenated: climb-online.

That website name does exist: climb-online.co.uk. But there doesn't seem to be much on that website.

The registry of domain names enables us to find out when and to whom climb-online.co.uk was registered. It was registered on 16th June this year, by a company called AMSVest Limited, an Alan Sugar company.

The domain name Climb-online.com was also registered on 16th June, to a 'private user'.

Does anybody know at what stage of filming the series was at on the 16th June?
Had all the task episodes already been filmed or not?

If Alan Sugar was hedging his bets, at that time, you might have expected him to have also registered the domain names for true-skin. As far as I can see, that didn't happen.

It's interesting that http://www.drleah.co.uk/ was (apparently) registered under Leah's real name & address, and as far back as January 2013 (before the series had even started to broadcast). It's possible that she simply registered it of her own accord before even starting, but - from memory - wasn't her original name for the salon "Niks" ('Skin' backwards, and a reference to knife surgery), with "Dr. Leah" not being suggested by Alan Sugar until the final episode? Then again, there's often a hefty delay before the taped episodes finally make it to air.

I have to say the 'clim bon leene' comment stays with me to this day and I shall always think of that moment - what a hoot!

It is ridiculous that a digital marketing agency would have a hyphenated URL, which is the first BIG NO in digital marketing.

I'm surprised website still hasn't been created. It can't be a very complex software design as it is just informing customers of service; I thought Mark deserved to win based on his performance but I don't think business will do well because its a start up competing against experienced organisations. No one would have seen it on TV and thought that's a fantastic idea as its been done before. Ideas in Series 8 for example, like Nick's website idea really was novel and new in which the exposure has probably made it much more successful and a better long term investment than Ricky's boring recruitment advisor agency.

As the OP says, climbonline.com and climbonline.co.uk already exist. The .com one is just an email from someone called Dusty saying it's for sale. I wonder how much for, particularly if Dusty realises who Mark is!

The co.uk. site is a site for rock climbing and has a link in the centre of the home page to click on if you are looking for Mark's services. If you click on it, it shows a picture of Mark and is basically saying they are not connected with him or his company. They sound a bit p***** off!

Oh dear, epic fail Mark!

Trouble is it's not really telling you what it is. His customers have already got a web presence so "climb on" doesn't really mean much as they are already "on", "climb Up" is better, but obviously doesn't scan very well.

Maybe the one that already exists is clim-bon-leen...

After 2 months is there anything about this website?

Its interesting that a digital marketing company would indeed get a domain that is hyphenated. I would imagine that Lord Sugar has an exit plan for that one though, sell on in a few years.

I would defiantly think that http://www.drleah.co.uk is going to have some stiff competition form the likes if http://www.harleystreetclinic.co.uk and http://www.juveaaesthetics.com but given that Lord Sugar now owns a Digital Marketing Agency maybe they have some good in with publishers that can help them do well online.