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I "own" the domain names used by a couple of religious organizations in my hometown, because I run their websites.
I don't see anything wrong with auctioning off domain names you already happen to own, but in the early days of the web, when I was still working in advertising, some of our client companies had problems with forward-thinking people registering their company names or brand names as domains and then demanding huge sums of money for them. If the company didn't pay the desired amount, the domain name speculator would sometimes bring it to the level of extortion by putting porno sites at domains based on the company's trademarks.
I don't see anything wrong with a guy who had the brains to register, say, Chevrolet or Ford as a domain asking the company for $20,000 or even $200,000 for the domain name, but I do have a problem with someone trying to ruin a company's reputation for the purpose of extortion. |
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| Sat Feb 03, 2007 20:08 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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| Torsten wrote: | | I used to register quite a number of different domain names some of which I sold through auctions. |
which ones?
just curious
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 0:49 am Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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Can't recall all of them but here are some:
english-test.de
englischtest.de
englischtests.de
english-tests.de
englischteam.de
english-team.de
Why do you ask, Aereal?
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 0:54 am Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | I don't see anything wrong with a guy who had the brains to register, say, Chevrolet or Ford as a domain asking the company for $20,000 or even $200,000 for the domain name, but I do have a problem with someone trying to ruin a company's reputation for the purpose of extortion. |
Jamie, if somebody had registered the domain Ford or Chevrolet, I doubt they would have been able to get $20,000 let alone $200,000.
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 14:34 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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| Torsten wrote: | english-test.de
englischtest.de
englischtests.de
english-tests.de
englischteam.de
english-team.de
Why do you ask, Aereal? |
i see. as i said - pure curiosity: i wonder did you register and sell any "exotic" names, or just sell the ones you didn't need anymore?
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 14:56 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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First, I thought I had to grab any .de domain that contains the words 'english test', 'englischtest' or 'english team' in different versions. Then I realized, a domain name is only of the many components of a website -- usually it's not the most important one. So I decided to make some room for healthy competition and creativity and got rid of those names. I don't know how define 'exotic' when it comes to domain names?
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 17:36 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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| Torsten wrote: | | I don't know how define 'exotic' when it comes to domain names? |
taking into account, that registering domains of well-known brands and re-selling them is slightly unfair, by "exotic" i mean something like earth.com, antarctic.gov, connecticut.org, wasser.de, champions.org etc 
P.S. don't know if any of these sites exist, so it's not an add!
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 17:45 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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Hi
At present I own three: www.trans-lingo.com, www.trans-ship.de (co-owned) and www.lelta.de (inactive at the moment).
I have never auctioned domain names but was suprised to find trans-lingo as a .com still available. I agree that the domain name is not that important just the website content and marketing.
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| Sun Feb 04, 2007 19:27 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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Hi Stew,
Have you ever thought of trying to obtain translingo.com? I couple of years ago I started www.english-team.com and was very surprised to see it was still available. However, a hyphenated domain name is far from ideal when it comes to marketing, especially when you want to promote the name on the phone or in another conversation.
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| Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:15 pm Do you 'own' a domain name? |
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Hi
Not considered obtaining the name until the red tape is finished in Germany and I can get my funding from he EU.
As for phone promotion I think saying minus and clarifying it as opposite of add or a cross does the trick.
Hyphen is not so gloabally recognisable or known by my German students.
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