Quickly.com

[Yofie]

Very true....Wow some of these drop companies are making loads of money then..

Well, last week or around then, Pool.com captured Shoppers.com which sold for $166,000 usd. That domain cost them about $6. So $165,994 profit! From one domain.....

Well, I guess you can't say all profit, as they own many registrars, which all cost money. High Tech Software, people to run the biz etc, but yes, they are making some big bucks.. SnapNames.com sold this year for around $25-35 Million.

[Megabet]

Heh.. Yofie or anyone want to go in with me and open a drop company? lol

[Yofie]

Very true....Wow some of these drop companies are making loads of money then..

The drop company part is EASY, getting the DOMAINS is the hard part. All the major registrars are already "partnered" with the big boys, so the quality of domains to add to your system would be low.

You could catch domains for yourself, but as I said before.... It's like bringing a wet noodle to a sward fight.

SnapNames has Hundreds of registrars. Enom has about the same and so on. So your 1 registrar would make you as happy as peeing into the wind.

[Acro]

The main problem is not drop-catching services, it's the alliance of registrars with a drop-catcher, offering domains in "pre-release" mode. As a bystander, I would think it's an illegal function of a registrar that ICANN somehow permits. If all domains dropped, there is a possibility that one armed with the technical and financial resources can compete against major drop-catching services.

[Megabet]

Ahh. Solution maybe? Develop a registrar with only a $3.99 register a domain fee? Everyone moves their domains to your site..after sometime big names start dropping in your registrar?

[NameGuy]

Shoppers.com is already going to UDRP too now that the proud new owner paid that much for it. That should be interesting.

[DomainsInc]

Shoppers.com is already going to UDRP too now that the proud new owner paid that much for it. That should be interesting.

I doubt they will lose it. A UDRP on the basis that they didn't renew it? Shoppers is such a generic term if they do give it back everyone generics are in danger.

[Acro]

Shoppers.com is already going to UDRP too now that the proud new owner paid that much for it. That should be interesting.

Link please?

[lordbyroniv]

Yes, link please

[Devil Dog]

Link please?

Case No.
1142605
shoppers.com
UDRP
2/14/2008
Pending

http://domains.adrforum.com/decision.aspx

[lordbyroniv]

scary

sheesh

To spend $166,000 and have to even consider losing, even if unjustifiably

[Devil Dog]

scary

sheesh

To spend $166,000 and have to even consider losing, even if unjustifiably

I would think the term shoppers was generic enough.

Seriously though, If I spent alomost 170k on a domain only to get it taken away a couple of months later, I'd lose it.

[lordbyroniv]

I am curious to read the complaint to ascertain its merits

[Devil Dog]

I am curious to read the complaint to ascertain its merits

Been parked since 03 it looks like. Back in 02 there was a TM on it but that has since been abandoned.

Looks to me like a domainer let it drop, saw how much it went for in the drops and is taking his chances by UDRP.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://shoppers.com

[lordbyroniv]

Should be an interesting case - I wouldnt be surprised to see the complaint assert based on the facts of the Namejet/Pool Register snafu and also the wrong email address from Netsol, that this comedy of errors prevented him from receiving notice.

If he loses the Arbitration, maybe his attorney will assert a claim against Netsol for neglience.

Should be interesting to see this play out

[Fatbat]

If he loses the Arbitration, maybe his attorney will assert a claim against Netsol for neglience.

Or insanity on his client's part.

[Megabet]

HEY GUYS!!!! I just developed a time machine!! Whos on board to go back in time with me to around 1990. I looked on one of registrars...Pretty sure we can buy google.com for like $5.95.