Comments on: Why Does the Press Insist on Quoting eBay Starting Prices for Domain Names?

By: bernard

bernard — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:33:59 +0000

domains have everyday more value while domainers continue to loose money.

Domainers have empty pockets, laughable developed websites if any, and animates the market with fake auctions.

All the deep pocketed investors are not likely to exchange assets bringing nice revenues with domains, with zero revenue, and possible legal trouble. They could be interested by ultra premium domains if the market would go in a very severe direction.

I guess the bubble burst which is admitted in an open manner by the domainer mob with domainBargains.com will continue.

By: Jim Davies

Jim Davies — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:17:37 +0000

@ Andrew “The problem with stories like this is some other idiot reads it and starts registering iPad related domain names with hopes of striking it rich.”

Wouldn’t that make them an ipadiot?

Sorry, I’ll get my hat….

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:31:30 +0000

This hurts domaining to have idiot opportunists exploit tragedies, celebrity names, and trademarks.

And the press eats this stuff up with a spoon. Not much integrity left in mass media.

On a different note, there are nice quality domains still around at very good prices. Not as many as there used to be, but still some.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:16:37 +0000

@ Duane – wow, that’s an amazing one.

By: Duane

Duane — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:51:28 +0000

“This makes the average person think that people who buy domain names are still just making money from buying trademarks, not generic domains.”

I could not agree more.

I don’t usually look at Domains up for sale at Ebay, but 2 day’s ago?

” GoogleAdsense.de ” was listed on Ebay Germany. The seller even had a quote in his listing as follows.

” I have acquired the Domain 1 year ago and the person which sold the domain to me had all rights also approved by Google. Therefor the buyer also receives all rights to the term “GoogleAdsense”. A trademark problem does not exist since Google has approved the use.

It’s about as good as you can get, when it comes to infringing.