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Crime-based games, TV shows, and movies have a rich history that dates back to The Public Enemy and Little Caesar in the 1930’s, The Godfather trilogy in the ’70s, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction in the ’90s, and all the way up to more recent works including Grand Theft Auto, Mafia Wars, The Sopranos, American Gangster, and The Departed.
And now there’s a killer domain for sale that encapsulates it all: Gangsters.com.
The domain name was listed for auction on eBay earlier today and bidding will be open until September 21 at 10am PDT. In this short report, I’m going to discuss Gangsters.com and the value it could add to your business or domain portfolio.
Description
Gangsters.com could be used for a music label, a TV series, a book series, or even an eCommerce site for mafia and gangster related products. However, it seems the domain would reach its maximum potential as a hub for a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created similar to Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft.
Millions of people around the world currently play MMORPGs with worldwide revenues exceeding $1.5 billion.
Industry and Domain Details
Conclusion
Although Gangsters.com isn’t likely to earn loads of money as a parked page, it has nearly unlimited potential for development. Crime-related movies, books, and games are everywhere these days - and there aren’t many one-word generic .com names around that have as much potential as Gangsters.com.
Visit the listing for Gangsters.com at eBay to bid today.
Disclaimer: This post has been paid for by the owner of Gangsters.com
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Crime-based games, TV shows, and movies have a rich history that dates back to The Public Enemy and Little Caesar in the 1930’s, The Godfather trilogy in the ’70s, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction in the ’90s, and all the way up to more recent works including Grand Theft Auto, Mafia Wars, The Sopranos, American Gangster, and The Departed.
And now there’s a killer domain for sale that encapsulates it all: Gangsters.com.
The domain name was listed for auction on eBay earlier today and bidding will be open until September 21 at 10am PDT. In this short report, I’m going to discuss Gangsters.com and the value it could add to your business or domain portfolio.
Description
Gangsters.com could be used for a music label, a TV series, a book series, or even an eCommerce site for mafia and gangster related products. However, it seems the domain would reach its maximum potential as a hub for a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created similar to Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft.
Millions of people around the world currently play MMORPGs with worldwide revenues exceeding $1.5 billion.
Industry and Domain Details
Conclusion
Although Gangsters.com isn’t likely to earn loads of money as a parked page, it has nearly unlimited potential for development. Crime-related movies, books, and games are everywhere these days - and there aren’t many one-word generic .com names around that have as much potential as Gangsters.com.
Visit the listing for Gangsters.com at eBay to bid today.
Disclaimer: This post has been paid for by the owner of Gangsters.com
(c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com
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We will sell your domain porfolio for 14-48 months revenue. $16MM sold in the last 3 years. More information.
If you live in the New York area, mark your calendars because we are getting together on September 24th at 6:30pm at the Boat Basin on West 79th Street and the Hudson River. There are no special requirements to attend, and there is no admission cost (although it’s a cash bar).
If you are interested in sponsoring the event via buying pitchers of drinks or appetizers, shoot me an email or simply show up. Past events have drawn around 40-50 people, and they are always relaxed. There’s no need to know anyone beforehand. If you live in the New York area, and you are a domain investor or work in the domain space, this is a great chance to meet like-minded people.
Please drop a comment if you can make it – and I will add your email address to the Evite I am going to send out shortly. See you there.
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No Tags specified :-)A non-scientific look at small business domain names.
This past Labor Day, while vacationing in San Francisco, I found myself feeding quarters into a washer in a laundromat. (Ah, the joys of traveling with a three-year-old). Perhaps it was a fitting situation, since I own both SanFrancisco.us and Laundromats.us.
With nothing to do except watch the dryer spin, I started to analyze the flyers papered to the walls. It was encouraging that so many of the small businesses advertising in the laundromat had domain names. But it was discouraging to see how bad some of them were. Here are some of my observations:
RipeFruitWriting.com – Sure, it’s a long domain. But I like how the flyer positions the domain name as the focus point. It allowed them to put the flyer at the very top of the wall but still have an impact.
PanTheater.com – it’s the logical domain for this theater. But it also looks like PantHeater.com (something I could have used on a cool San Francisco day). The theater should use capitalization to make its domain easier to read.
SFbrewersguild.org – this organization ‘gets it’. When you type in SFbrewersguild.COM, it forwards to the .org.
None – this may be tough to decipher in the photo, but there’s no domain. This person is using a Yahoo email address on their flyer. I see this a lot, even when a company has its own domain name. Setting up email for your domain is relatively easy and makes a bit impact.
None – if you can figure out this psychic’s web address, then you probably don’t need to go see a psychic.
JustAwesomeTheWebsite.com – it’s a good thing this photo didn’t turn out well, because it’s painful. Just Awesome sells board games. Thankfully, the store also owns JustAwesomeGames.com. Maybe it’s using this long and painful domain to track traffic, but I don’t like it.
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No Tags specified :-)A non-scientific look at small business domain names.
This past Labor Day, while vacationing in San Francisco, I found myself feeding quarters into a washer in a laundromat. (Ah, the joys of traveling with a three-year-old). Perhaps it was a fitting situation, since I own both SanFrancisco.us and Laundromats.us.
With nothing to do except watch the dryer spin, I started to analyze the flyers papered to the walls. It was encouraging that so many of the small businesses advertising in the laundromat had domain names. But it was discouraging to see how bad some of them were. Here are some of my observations:
RipeFruitWriting.com – Sure, it’s a long domain. But I like how the flyer positions the domain name as the focus point. It allowed them to put the flyer at the very top of the wall but still have an impact.
PanTheater.com – it’s the logical domain for this theater. But it also looks like PantHeater.com (something I could have used on a cool San Francisco day). The theater should use capitalization to make its domain easier to read.
SFbrewersguild.org – this organization ‘gets it’. When you type in SFbrewersguild.COM, it forwards to the .org.
None – this may be tough to decipher in the photo, but there’s no domain. This person is using a Yahoo email address on their flyer. I see this a lot, even when a company has its own domain name. Setting up email for your domain is relatively easy and makes a bit impact.
None – if you can figure out this psychic’s web address, then you probably don’t need to go see a psychic.
JustAwesomeTheWebsite.com – it’s a good thing this photo didn’t turn out well, because it’s painful. Just Awesome sells board games. Thankfully, the store also owns JustAwesomeGames.com. Maybe it’s using this long and painful domain to track traffic, but I don’t like it.
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No Tags specified :-)A non-scientific look at small business domain names.
This past Labor Day, while vacationing in San Francisco, I found myself feeding quarters into a washer in a laundromat. (Ah, the joys of traveling with a three-year-old). Perhaps it was a fitting situation, since I own both SanFrancisco.us and Laundromats.us.
With nothing to do except watch the dryer spin, I started to analyze the flyers papered to the walls. It was encouraging that so many of the small businesses advertising in the laundromat had domain names. But it was discouraging to see how bad some of them were. Here are some of my observations:
RipeFruitWriting.com – Sure, it’s a long domain. But I like how the flyer positions the domain name as the focus point. It allowed them to put the flyer at the very top of the wall but still have an impact.
PanTheater.com – it’s the logical domain for this theater. But it also looks like PantHeater.com (something I could have used on a cool San Francisco day). The theater should use capitalization to make its domain easier to read.
SFbrewersguild.org – this organization ‘gets it’. When you type in SFbrewersguild.COM, it forwards to the .org.
None – this may be tough to decipher in the photo, but there’s no domain. This person is using a Yahoo email address on their flyer. I see this a lot, even when a company has its own domain name. Setting up email for your domain is relatively easy and makes a bit impact.
None – if you can figure out this psychic’s web address, then you probably don’t need to go see a psychic.
JustAwesomeTheWebsite.com – it’s a good thing this photo didn’t turn out well, because it’s painful. Just Awesome sells board games. Thankfully, the store also owns JustAwesomeGames.com. Maybe it’s using this long and painful domain to track traffic, but I don’t like it.
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No Tags specified :-)Two more scam sites added to domain name appraisal scam.
The long-running domain name appraisal scam has moved to two additional web sites: max-appraisal.com and topnameappraisals.com. Both of these sites are scams; do not purchase domain appraisals from them. The full text of the latest scam email is below:
from Domain Trade domain .trd@gmail.com
date Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:37 AM
subject HEATINGPAD.BIZDear Sir,
we have an interest to purchase your domain HEATINGPAD.BIZ and usually offer between 50% and 65% of the appraised value.
We accept appraisals from companies such ashttp://www.se do.com/
http://max-appraisal.com/
http://topnameappraisals.com/If you already have an appraisal please forward it to us.
Please let us know whether you are interested. Upon review of your valuation and in case of an agreement we send payments via PayPal for amounts less than $2,000 and via Escrow.com for amounts above $2,000, as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.
Thank you,
Domain Trade LLC
Note that Sedo and Escrow.com are not affiliated with the scam.
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Domain registrar launches new online savings site, but misses an obvious typo.
Domain name registrar GoDaddy has launched GoDaddySaves.Me, and online savings network. Members get discounts at a number of online merchants, ranging from Kohls to FTD.com. Membership costs $9.99, but includes a $10 GoDaddy gift certificate, making it essentially free.
Beyond the revenue potential for GoDaddy, the site also continues a trend of the company using the .me domain name. GoDaddy is a partner in the registry for .me, the country code domain name for Montenegro.
There’s one surprise here, though. The company failed to register an obvious typo of the domain, GoDaddySavesMe.com. GoDaddy has been aggressive with defensive domain name registrations in the past, so I’m surprised it overlooked this obvious typo. While writing this post, I’ve already had to correct an error in which I linked to GoDaddySavesMe.com.
As an aside, I just noticed something interesting. Try registering a domain name that includes “GoDaddy” in it through GoDaddy. You’ll hit a roadblock.
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AOL loses domain dispute; arbitrator condemns company and its lawyer.
AOL, already known for playing fast an loose with trademarks, has lost a domain dispute for four domains including AutoBlogReviews.com.
National Arbitration Forum panelist Paul M. DeCicco found that AOL failed to prove secondary meaning and rights to the term AUTOBLOG. AOL acquired AutoBlog.com in its Weblogs acquisition. DeCicco displayed a common sense approach to proving that a company has trademark rights — most panels place little emphasis on this. DeCicco wrote:
Complainant must prove the status of its mark via competent evidence, not by conjecture or innuendo. Furthermore, the degree of burden to prove that a mark has acquired distinctiveness should not be attenuated because of the abbreviated nature of the instant proceeding. Nor should it be increased. To do either would indicate an arbitrary predisposition in favor the benefited party’s alignment. Expedience should not be served at the cost of fairness.
He found AOL’s evidence insufficient and blasted the company for its “demonizing account” of the respondent:
There is only trace circumstantial evidence tending to prove that Respondent intentionally “copied” Complainant’s mark in its domain name. Respondent’s explanation of how and why he came to pick and register the at-issue domain names is far more plausible than Complainant’s demonizing account that characterizes Respondent, a full time college student, as one willing and wanton to capitalize on Complainant AOL’s goodwill. Since it does not appear that Respondent set out to copy Complainant’s claimed mark, “copying” is not a factor favoring a finding of secondary meaning.
The panelist also questioned why a company of AOL’s stature never applied for a trademark for AUTOBLOG:
Complainant is legally sophisticated and with substantial resources. There is no obvious reason that can be gleaned from the record, or otherwise, explaining why Complainant apparently has not sought and does not seek federal registration for the AUTOBLOG mark. Notably, evidence of a valid trademark registration generally avoids the necessity to prove-up secondary meaning within a UDRP proceeding since rights are presumed, although rebuttable.
Now, before you get on the case of AOL’s lawyers at Arent Fox for filing the instant case, you should know one more piece of information. The same lawyer at Arent Fox filed a case earlier this year for AutoBlogNews.com. In that case, National Arbitration Forum panelist Paul A. Dorf ruled that AOL did have rights to the AUTOBLOG name. So not only does AOL have egg on its face, but National Arbitration deserves some blame, too. It’s easy to assume that Arent Fox used a similar argument for its rights in both cases. But with two different arbitrators there were two different decisions.
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