For Sale Yesterdays huge drop from DomainKings portfolio

[nitronet]

LaPorte Holdings = DomainSponsor

 

[stuff]

LaPorte Holdings = DomainSponsor

That could be it.

 

[pkguy]

Offshoring may be too annoying for them, so they decided to get rid of some of the names, but still doesn't explain why they didn't sell the names.

 

[seeker]

TM issues, and they were sued recenetly for a TM typosquating incident if I am not mistaken (for something like $200K), so my guess is they dropped them for a reason...

 

[stuff]

Offshoring may be too annoying for them, so they decided to get rid of some of the names, but still doesn't explain why they didn't sell the names.

its too much hassle

 

[seeker]

BTW, nameking (nothing to do with Rick) was recently removed from the partenrship with Enom's clubdrop... so this could be a larger scenario...

 

[mole]

It's okay I found out who NK is

The Complainant relies on numerous UDRP decisions – 50 in the first seven months of 2005 alone – in which the Respondent has been ordered to transfer domain names to trade mark owners to show that the Respondent is a notorious cybersquatter.

 

[denny007]

Just got a thought - maybe they have in portfolio a lot of non-cybersquatting domains, so they better dropped the problematic ones to keep to good one (as someone could WIPO them for otherwise non-problematic domain using argument they are "notorious cybersquatter".

 

[mole]

Nice site on cybersquatting resources here;

http://www.elawnetwork.com/domainnames.html

 

[everydayprofit]

The plot thickens.....

I have found MANY MANY NameKing names that are expiring in December that are already on the redemption period list.

//everydayprofit

 

[mole]

I have found MANY MANY NameKing names that are expiring in December that are already on the redemption period list.

You can be fined $100,000 per name for "mousetrapping" company web-site names with typos, rumor has it that the whip is just only beginning to swing.

http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/isenberg-2000-11a-all.html

 

[denny007]

This is like 6 years old law and can apply only to US citizens. As the US has no right to apply their own laws to the whole world. And the US guys are incorporaing in another countries to avoid this. What Zuccarini did was shit (all the porn, kid typos to porn sites, the never-ending pop-ups, mousetrapping...). If he have had some decent parking places which exists these days, he would not have many troubles imho.

 

[Luc]

all domains i checked had TM issues. some very small companies so i might pick em up if the price is decent.

funny how they didn't want to sell any of these names when i made them good offers and now they are dropping them.

 

[mole]

If he have had some decent parking places which exists these days, he would not have many troubles imho.

It is only a question of time when parking page providers (given that they get a cut of the revenue) will have to face part of the responsibility for profiteering from TM typo traffic.

I remembered the case when Google was sued big time (in the millions) for carrying ads that violated TMs, so now Google is trying to make sure that every adword is fully screened for compliance.

As the Internet matures into mainstream, you will find the legal policing of this space getting higher and higher.

I think the moral of this thread for domainers is - ensure that your motives are social correct and above board, and not based on the profiteering on the efforts and good names of other people.

If domainers are seen as cybersquatters, profiteering pirates and notorious TM violators without scruples, without a drop of moral, then I guess we have a good case here of why perceptions like this comes about.

What NK did "wrong" in the past, he learnt and corrected. Let this be an example to us all.

 

[denny007]

It is only a question of time when parking page providers (given that they get a cut of the revenue) will have to face part of the responsibility for profiteering from TM typo traffic.

If so happen, we will have to make pages and redirect the traffic to there...

Any registering of domain name for later sale, without using it, is kind of cybersquatting... To not to be a cybersquatter, you would have to become content maker/webmaster, there would not be any more domainers than...

What NK did "wrong" in the past, he learnt and corrected. Let this be an example to us all.

Yeah, see how many of the OVT typos over 30 from their portfolio really drops. I help you - NONE of it. And there will be some record sales reported on DNJournal too