You Can Become a Cybersquatter for Only $192,500
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Some Saturday afternoon cybersquatting humor for you.
It takes guts to sell a trademarked domain name on such a public venue as eBay.
So what do you call it if you try to sell an eBay trademark on eBay?
One of my readers just sent a link to me for just such an auction.
Yep, that’s right. Someone is trying to sell eBay.net.in on eBay. For only $192,500.
I’ve pasted some of the auction description below with my own commentary in italics.
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Today is your Lucky Day! (If you want to set yourself up for a lawsuit in the near future!)
Ebay as you may know (because you’re currently on eBay.com) is a worldwide household name and happens to be one of the most searched words online clocking in a total of 185,000,000 searches EACH day. That’s right!
Ebay is the most typed in word all over the world in search engines.
This company is also one of the richest online and rakes in Billions of Dollars each year as customers from all around the world flock to ebay every single day buying and selling items from this website. (Yep, that’s right! They have billions of dollars to sue you with!)
This 4 letter domain name is perhaps one of the most difficult to acquire as it belongs to the registered company and is also part of its trademark. (Yes, the seller actually mentioned it is a trademark.)
However, having an Ebay domain is a Million Dollar Prized Possession.
It is worth Millions!!
As you know Ebay.com is just one of the many domains owned by the Company. They also own other domains such as Ebay.com.au, Ebay.de, Ebay.in, Ebay.it, Ebay.at, Ebay.com.hk, Ebay.pl and so on making it virtually impossible to have an Ebay domain for yourself.
You are however in great luck (or today is your unlucky day if you were to buy this domain). Your Opportunity to own an Ebay domain is finally here… Ebay.net.in.
This is your opportunity to cash in on those visiting the Ebay websites.
When those 185,000,000 visitors type in Ebay every day, chances are they will eventually end up visiting your site, Ebay.net.in since Ebay owns the domain Ebay.in.
You can use this domain to create a Million Dollar Business for yourself.
You can
1. Set up your own Auction Company using your own logos and create a
fortune. (for eBay’s trademark lawyers)
2. Create a Blog that is Ebay Related. (only to lose it to eBay)
3. Sell your own Products or affiliated products
The Possibilities are Endless.
Ebay is also extremely easy to remember. Who could possibly misspell or forget this word as opposed to say…yxkt or qlwz.
Here is your chance to rake in tons of cash with this prized domain. (Rake yourself over coals when you get sued.)
Please note that I accept only Money Orders for this item.
Kindly do not send any fraudulent monies as Ebay will report such persons to relevant authorities and have legal action be taken against them. (Remember: eBay will take legal action against people who do things fraudulent! Don’t say he didn’t warn you.)
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If its any consolation, the seller is throwing in 4 free business card designs with the purchase. Maybe you’ll get to keep them after you lose your domain.
Is $192,500 too rich for you? The seller also listed youtube.org.ag for only $37,000.
No related posts.
It’s just like the listing I saw on Flippa. Someone was selling flippaboard.com with a clone script like Flippa.
Teasing the dog in his own kennel. People are crazy.
It’s amazing the cheek & nerve some people have.
Another thing to be careful of…the condition isn’t listed.
Lately there’s been a bunch of ripoff artists on Ebay selling used domains as brand new.
Caveat emptor!
Hubris.
There are many suckers in the world ask Bernie Madoff.
ebay.net.in makes maybe $5 a month so this listing is just a joke to catch dumb tabloids to write about it. Free traffic for the aithor of the auction.
@ Frantisek – yes, he’ll make a nice 5 cents off this posting.
Honestly I want to comment but I just don’t even know what to say. Why isn’t there a Like button in wordpress.
the joke of the day.
Must be a trend in this. Here’s another (2) eBay name for sale – Ebay .com.do & Ebay .do; item # – 300522803186. eBay will probably take anyone’s money to list these types of names, and then go after the buyer and sellers of them after they sell, for even more money!
Psst…wanna buy DomainNameWire.org.in just let me know and I will put it at Ebay for you.
Cheap Cheap lets start the bidding at $10K
Sold.
I think I’m going to bid on this, and ensure I win the auction. Then, when I don’t pay, the seller will attempt to seek satisfaction from eBay and force me to pay, and then he’ll get totally busted.
This could be fun!
buyer’s favourite song must be “suicidal dream” by Silverchair
2 Mansour: domainers don’t usually visit discussed domains nor they click on landing page ads.
I love the last bit:
“Kindly do not send any fraudulent monies as Ebay will report such persons to relevant authorities and have legal action be taken against them. (Remember: eBay will take legal action against people who do things fraudulent! Don’t say he didn’t warn you.)”
seems that kid will be wasting 300$ to godaddy when ebay files a dispute