Comments on: Can You Help Me Find a Buyer?

By: Pasi

Pasi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Thanks guys for your advice. I’m just a newbie, and being from Finland doesn’t help at all. You know, your trademark laws (I mean american laws) are just from outer space for me. I don’t know anything about those laws. We have nothing like that here. I can register, for example, our presidents name domain and there’s nothing legal.

And how USA laws have nothing to do with us europeans? Oh well, I have to be careful now. If Disney want’s those domains, or they demands them, I will give up. Nokia had absolutely no interest in domains which was a big surprise.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:05:14 +0000

@ Pasi

From my perspective those names have absolutely no commercial value or appeal. From my untrained legal perspective, they appear to be liabilities. I wouldn’t keep names that are worth nothing but can cost a lot of money in legal bills.

By: Pasi

Pasi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:02:59 +0000

Well, Nokia answered same day I asked them. Answer (in finnish) was: Thank you for your interested. Nokia is not interested in your domains. If you have other questions, please ask.

Okey, I check that legal thing now.

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:22:08 +0000

@pasi: You only registered these domains a few days ago. How can you say that you’ve already contacted Nokia and they aren’t interested in protecting their name? The only reason I’m posting a third time is that this is like watching a train wreck. Go to any of the major domain forums like DNForum or Namepros. Check out the section on Legal and / or Trademark domains. You are looking at a whole load of trouble ahead if you don’t grace delete these domains NOW!

By: Pasi

Pasi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:56:24 +0000

I contacted Nokia and asked if they are interested on Nokia-related domains (thenokiaworld.com, nokianetwork.com, nokiauniverse.com, nokiaglobe.com, lumiaphones.com, windowslumia.com) and they had absolutely no interested on protecting Nokia name.

So is there anyone who would like to buy those domains from me?

By: Pasi

Pasi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:17:30 +0000

Are you serious on those trademark claims? I’m from Finland, so how USA laws have anything to do with my domains? I have contacted Disney and I want to sell my domains for them. Is there something wrong with me? In Finland Disney has no legal rights to sue me, here’s no suchs laws on Disney’s side. So what I should do now?

By: Pasi

Pasi — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:11:45 +0000

I’m also selling themickeymouse.com, thewaltdisneypictures.com, thedisneypictures, disneypixar.co… So is there any value on those? I also own nokianetwork.com, thenokiaworld.com, nokiauniverse.com and nokiaglobe.com. What are value of those?

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:55:05 +0000

@Sonny: are you joking? Do you know how ruthlessly companies like Disney enforce their trademarks? Anyone trying to flog Disney a TM domain will get a very rude awakening probably with a C&D letter, and followed by a UDRP. Pasi, grace delete this now!!

By: iGREEN (@mdibrahimkhan)

iGREEN (@mdibrahimkhan) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:56:27 +0000

Can anyone of you valuate my domain TrueHealth.US?

By: Sonny

Sonny — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:47:51 +0000

@Pasi,

That’s a great domain! It’s worth at least $200,000 U.S.

Make them pay big bucks – Disney is loaded!

By: Marg

Marg — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:43:13 +0000

@pasi: the domain you registered violates trademarks held by the Walt Disney organization. They can certainly get it from you via a UDRP, and you could be hit for damages too. Since you only registered this on March 2nd at GoDaddy, see if you can get them to grace delete it right now. I understand you can request this within a few days of the original registration. Do it now and save yourself a lot of trouble!

By: Jason Davis

Jason Davis — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:06:40 +0000

@john Regarding calling the company first. I would suggest if it is a big enough company, find the person who handles their seo/sem. I did this with a travel domain name this year and it turned out the right thing to do as I sold them on it. I congratulated him on a recent 120k domain name they recently acquired and let them know he name I was selling was going to cost quite a bit less. They liked the domain name and bought.

By: Amr

Amr — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:41:48 +0000

I think working with broker is bad idea, they try to decrease your domain name value so they can find a buyer and sell the domain name and of course take their commission.

By: iGREEN (@mdibrahimkhan)

iGREEN (@mdibrahimkhan) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:08:10 +0000

Good one.

I am following it for my domain TrueHealth.US.
This has nice valuation. Will wait till i gets any response.

Thanks

By: Pasi

Pasi — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:36:58 +0000

I just bought thewaltdisney.com domain. Do you think that domain name has a great value or not? I think it has but I want your opinion. I just contacted Disney through web page but I don’t know if they have any interest in buying domains.

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:34:16 +0000

Do you ever just call the company first and try to speak with a contact who handles domains vs emailing first? Thanks

By: Nadia

Nadia — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:30:10 +0000

Great post.

By: A. Mitchell

A. Mitchell — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:41:51 +0000

Registration records can be modified so that Whois lookups reveal that a domain may be for sale and where it’s listed, e.g., May be for sale at XYZ.

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:32:00 +0000

@ Mitch

I absolutely agree with you.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:24:04 +0000

On #2.
“My next piece of advice is to evaluate how the domain name can be used and by what type of company….”
Elliot, I would (start) do(ing) this BEFORE registering the domain.