not to mention that if you do let one expire.... real people who would use the domain likely cant get them as they are scooped up automatically by the registrars themselves or through a deal with a 3rd party company. i let some domains slip recently.... i was procrastinating and wasnt motivated to renew them.... fundavlog.com being one of them :( would be nice if all expired domains had to hit the open market again for a certain amount of time before they are taken by these mega domain holding companies.
anyone want feedfight.com ;) it expires this month. sull On 7/11/07, randulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/10/07, Stephanie Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mortaine%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > I do a videoblog for an IP lawyer. He says it's about $350 to file the > > paperwork, and about $2000 to get the attorney to do the > legwork/trademark > > search, which is needed before you file. Only you can decide if it's > worth > > it to you. > > This is exactly why it's a reasonable idea to protect at least the > domain names through reserving them rather than hoping the courts will > protect you. Remember that there are further complications regarding > ip even after filing successfully. It can still be overturned (even > years later) by prior use and you are forced to defend you registered > trademark if someone tries to use it. Unless you have the financial > backing, "people like us" can't do much with trademarks other than > spend money. OTH, domain names are cheap and though it still pisses me > off that one is forced to reserve useless names (it's like extortion) > that's the cheapest most efficient tactic to protect your "internet > name". > > It's totally reasonable as long as your great idea is a single word. > Unfortunately, if you have something like "vlogsRus" and you want > ironclad protection for this idea that will soon be the hottest thing > since Google, you'd need to reserve: > > vlogs-r-us.* > vlogsrus.* > vlogs-r.us > vlogsr.us > and probably vlogs-r-us.* (etc) > > Even if that amounts to say 20 names, it's still very cheap (maybe > $150 for all 20) and nowadays you can point them all free to your > first choice vlogsRus.com (or whatever). > > The small cost that came when the monopoly of NetSol was ended (entry > was $70 per domain) has made it totally cheap to register all kinds of > names and squat them. > > A pox on domain name squatters. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
