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Hello Everyone......
I got a generic 2 word domain, on a domain drop auction and it has cleared to my account. I checked what was at the domain before, I found out a power house google PR8 ( MSN is a PR8 also ). And a alexa rating of 1,300 owned, the domain with the .net and org. The whois showed, they got it through a consultant. I found 3 historys of their usage of the domain, dec 14 and 24 2005 and jan 4 2006.
From the less then 2 months short history, I seen that the domain I got was forwarded as a subdomain. To their highly rated domain as a beta site, I then went to their highly rated site. And could not find anything of my name there, when I first seen the domain I thought of a good usage for it. And found they was not using it for that, and from the little usage felt they was most likely letting it drop.
Like any good domainer though, after I had the domain for sure. I started doing more research on it, and they do have a TM word mark on the domain. But as I said it's a very generic name, and could be used for all kinds of stuff. So here is some facts as I see it.......
1) It's a very, generic domain name.
2) They did not, make the name very well known at all.
3) I should be able to build it, and/or sell it as a generic domain seller and developer.
Keep in mind when I say build it, I mean for anything other then what their TM is for. And when I say sell it, I mean it's a true generic domain name. And that I both think of my self, as a domainer and developer as well. And there was no bad faith, from my side of this at all at any time.
I think I'm on good ground with it, and would like some input that indeed I'm right. I've read some icann cases, and in one case a domainer got a dropped generic domain. That was TMed, and the panel found that the domainer, buying the generic domain to resell was indeed fair usage. And that no bad faith was shown, because it was indeed a generic domain.
I will not put the name in this post right now, but I'm willing to PM it to a few people that know about this stuff. If they feel I'm on good ground as well, and think it's ok to post it then I will. As I said before I felt they was letting it drop, but one never knows about expired domains. But even if by some odd chance, they or their consultant dropped the ball, I'm still on soild ground with it. If you know about this kind of stuff, and feel you could give input just PM me for the info.
Thanks, for any help! Tim
I got a generic 2 word domain, on a domain drop auction and it has cleared to my account. I checked what was at the domain before, I found out a power house google PR8 ( MSN is a PR8 also ). And a alexa rating of 1,300 owned, the domain with the .net and org. The whois showed, they got it through a consultant. I found 3 historys of their usage of the domain, dec 14 and 24 2005 and jan 4 2006.
From the less then 2 months short history, I seen that the domain I got was forwarded as a subdomain. To their highly rated domain as a beta site, I then went to their highly rated site. And could not find anything of my name there, when I first seen the domain I thought of a good usage for it. And found they was not using it for that, and from the little usage felt they was most likely letting it drop.
Like any good domainer though, after I had the domain for sure. I started doing more research on it, and they do have a TM word mark on the domain. But as I said it's a very generic name, and could be used for all kinds of stuff. So here is some facts as I see it.......
1) It's a very, generic domain name.
2) They did not, make the name very well known at all.
3) I should be able to build it, and/or sell it as a generic domain seller and developer.
Keep in mind when I say build it, I mean for anything other then what their TM is for. And when I say sell it, I mean it's a true generic domain name. And that I both think of my self, as a domainer and developer as well. And there was no bad faith, from my side of this at all at any time.
I think I'm on good ground with it, and would like some input that indeed I'm right. I've read some icann cases, and in one case a domainer got a dropped generic domain. That was TMed, and the panel found that the domainer, buying the generic domain to resell was indeed fair usage. And that no bad faith was shown, because it was indeed a generic domain.
I will not put the name in this post right now, but I'm willing to PM it to a few people that know about this stuff. If they feel I'm on good ground as well, and think it's ok to post it then I will. As I said before I felt they was letting it drop, but one never knows about expired domains. But even if by some odd chance, they or their consultant dropped the ball, I'm still on soild ground with it. If you know about this kind of stuff, and feel you could give input just PM me for the info.
Thanks, for any help! Tim
