nintendowii.net sells for $2550.00 on eBay - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**demo** · 06-08-2006, 07:57 PM

This auction lingered at $55 for days and I thought that is how it would end! I can hardly believe someone paid $2550. This is GREAT news for all the wii domain owners (like myself).

ebay Auction link

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**loscocco** · 06-10-2006, 11:22 PM

Wow, thats a very good sale. Lets see if they pay. I just has a $2k deadbeat on ebay last week

**trader** · 06-10-2006, 11:29 PM

I always find it amazing how trademark names are sold for good prices, especially much larger sales which are reported in dnjournal for blatant trademark violations. Why would anyone pay a lot for a name which can be Wipo'd away so quickly and at such a low cost?

A number of famous trademark names have sold for greater than 10k.

Banned: zojila · 06-11-2006, 08:03 PM

I sold WiiRemote.com for $3k plus 2 weeks ago. Some trademark infringements works to the benefit of the mark holder. In this case, Nintendo cares less if you have the Nintendo name as long as the site helps in advertising and sales of it's flagship product.

Can you imagine hundreds of Wii sites talking, promoting and selling Wii products? It only adds to the Nintendo bottom line. And with stiff competition from Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo does not mind these domains working for them.

I say this from past expereince. I used to own motorolarazr.com and many variations of it. Initially, Motorola would inspect the site most everyday. My servers could catch their Ip everyday. These stopped after a while. They never contacted me.

Reason - I did my best to sell the Razr on that 1 single page. And so it goes for other trademarked names as well. Perhaps not always. But, it does not hurt to take a chance.

I have a $17k bid on my Wii name collection already. Will wait untill the console launch comes close to get the right price. I see domainers selling some truly good Wii names for $100, $500 and I think it is a mistake.

Banned: DomainsRate · 06-11-2006, 09:51 PM

I was bidding on that name, nice sale and nice buy. This domain will recieve alot of traffic.

**Rarethings** · 06-12-2006, 01:32 AM

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In this case, Nintendo cares less if you have the Nintendo name as long as the site helps in advertising and sales of it's flagship product.

Not true my friend. Nintendo is going to start going after parked wii names. (developed are usually okay with them, unless they want the name.)

nintendowii.net = WIPO waiting to happen.

Banned: zojila · 06-12-2006, 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Rarethings

Not true my friend. Nintendo is going to start going after parked wii names. (developed are usually okay with them, unless they want the name.)

nintendowii.net = WIPO waiting to happen.

You may be right. I just hope it does not happen for the sake of the buyers, who paid huge sums to get their names...