closed fredmeyers.com

[Nacho]

Anyone familiar with this grocery chain in the NW......looking for some help on a misspelling. 1420 at Overture with ext. fredmeyer.com 2505 overture with ext. Thanks for the help.

Nacho

 

[DomainShark]

Trademark issues so not worth anything except possibly being sued. Unless your name happens to be Fred Meyers.

 

[Jak]

Yeah I would be weary of that one because they will most likely just take it from you.

On that note, I moved down here to Florida after living in Washington State for 5 years, and I do miss Fred Meyer stores.

 

[Nacho]

Domain Shark, do you think that would actually matter? What if I sold it to a Fred Meyers, would he then be protected, or how about the Author Fred E. Meyers, or a Lawyer, realtor, yahoo group, or the countless others that this name has meaning. I am also wondering, why does Fred Meyer, Inc. have Trademark rights to a name that isn't their own. In fact, Fred Meyer himself was reported to dislike that people would use the wrong name when referring to him (told to me by the webmaster of Fred Meyer Inc. a couple of years ago when they offered 2k in shopping dollars for the name) and his grocery chain.

Anyway, I sure do appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you,
Nacho

Trademark issues so not worth anything except possibly being sued. Unless your name happens to be Fred Meyers.

 

[Jak]

Your original post implied that you intended this to be a misspelling of the store brand, in other words, when someone types it in the site that comes up somehow relates to the store.

If you sell it to someone named Fred Meyers who has nothing to do with the store, and doesn't have a store of his own, then you're talking about something different. Then again, someone named Fred Meyers probably isn't going to pay much for the domain, so on that note I'd say it's worth the reg fee.

 

[DomainShark]

What if I sold it to a Fred Meyers, would he then be protected, or how about the Author Fred E. Meyers, or a Lawyer, realtor, yahoo group, or the countless others that this name has meaning.

If you sold it to them it should be fine because they could claim a legitimate use for the name, much like an individual by the name of A.R. Mani could claim a legitimate use for Armani.com. As you're apparently not called Fred Meyers or registering on behalf of someone of that name then they can claim the balance of probability points towards it being a "bad faith" registration by someone who intends to profit from the similarity of the name to their trademark, particularly since you've clearly demonstrated you're aware the similarity exists - just like a domain trader by the name of Joe Bloggs would have no rights to Armani.com just because he might be able to sell it to AR Mani or someone who wanted the two Latvian words "ar mani" as well as the famous fashion designer.

I am also wondering, why does Fred Meyer, Inc. have Trademark rights to a name that isn't their own

Because it contains the words Fred Meyer, which presumably they have registered as a trademark, and the company can reasonably claim that it can be confused with their trademark.

If you had an offer of 2k in shopping dollars then unless it generates massive PPC income or you really don't like shopping there you probably should have taken it.