domain 27 .coms themed in Shipping - thoughts....

[niceguy]

I'm looking for an appraisal for the following individually or as a group. I'm torn between spending time trying to develop stuff or just selling the domains.

If you could take a moment and give a thoughtful appraisal or suggestion on selling or developing I would appreciate it.

PortAntwerp.com
PortChiba.com
PortofChiba.com
PortHamburg.com
PortHongKong.com
PortLosAngeles.com
PortNagoya.com
PortofSL.com
PortRotterdam.com
PortSingapore.com
PortSouthLouisiana.com
PortKaohsiung.com
PortKwaiChung.com
PortofBusan.com
PortofKwaiChung.com
PortofShenzhen.com
PortShenzhen.com
PortofGuangzhou.com
PortGuangzhou.com
PortNingbo.com
PortTtallinn.com
PortPiraeus.com
PortAmsterdam.com
PortPusan.com
PortofPusan.com
PortKingston.com
PortQingdao.com

These represent a significant number of the top 20 container ports in the world as well as a few small ports because they are meaningful to me.

Some of these - like PortHongKong.com and PortLosAngeles.com could have other natural uses as well.

In terms of trademark name issues here are two cases involving the use of a generic name of a port and the outcome in favor of the registrant. These are generic names of places not trademarked. These cases were brought to my attention by a fellow NP er.

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-0001.html

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-0002.html

Your appraisal/thoughts or any useful comments.

Peace
Tarry

 

[Bannen]

Hey paisano
I'll stay away from legal/TM issues with these city names, since I don't know enough about that end yet (recommend you post questions in the legal discussion section of Namepros).
Re: the names = I think the names that SOUND like names have little/no value (portantwerp, porthongkong), since those places just aren't known by that name, and (I checked) many of them are registered the 'other way' (pusanport.com, nagoyaport.com, singaporeport.com, etc).
I think you may get some small value from the names with 'of', since that completes the sentence. In other words, portnagoya sounds like a name, but portofnagoya tells what the domain is about.
Yes, there are other natural uses for these names, including port wines made in some areas, but shipping/vacation cruise seem to be the most obvious value.
You should wait on more experienced appraisals in this site, but I'd personally say little value to resellers... If you're lovin' the port world, then develop the names according to your interests and you can't lose; or get very, very creative in inventing how to market/represent them to end users.
Good luck, hope you do well

 

[niceguy]

A fellow British Columbian! Greetings! Thank you for your thoughts.

I would like to point out a couple of things - most of the big ports have totally non-intuitive names for example:

(These are all official port site urls)

Port of Hong Kong = mardep.gov.hk
Port of Los Angeles = portoflosangeles.org
Port of Hamburg = hafen-hamburg.de
Port of Antwerp = portofantwerp.be
Port of Singapore = mpa.gov.sg
Port of Kaohsiung = khb.gov.tw/english
Port of Pusan = pusan.momaf.go.kr
Port of Piraeus = olp.gr
Port of New Orleans = portno.com
Port of Liverpool = merseydocks.co.uk
Port of New York = panynj.gov

Some ports are more type-in intuitive such as:
Port of Rotterdam = portofrotterdam.com
Port of Amsterdam = portofamsterdam.com
Port of Vancouver = portvancouver.com


I think port(name) and port of (name) .coms are the most intuitive type-in domains for large world-class ports.

Some additional thoughts, and thanks again fellow BC'er.

Any other opinions.

Peace,
Tarry