domain blockaim.com

[wvtalbot]

I really debated over this one, not sure if it is a good find or a disaster waiting to happen....your opinion?

 

[Ben42]

Tons of companies (even more every day) need to block IM's for security purposes. Only issue is it's only talking about AIM. This is one of the most popular, but limiting.

 

[wvtalbot]

Tons of companies (even more every day) need to block IM's for security purposes. Only issue is it's only talking about AIM. This is one of the most popular, but limiting.

I understand it is limiting, I look at the traffic for the name and figured it was a good deal. Slightly worried about the tm, but then again look up aim block and there was all sorts of programs etc etc named the exact same thing as the domain.

Any idea on worth?

 

[Ben42]

Yeah, I did look up the TM and there are 385 Records(s) found for AIM.

Value without Development wouldn't be much above Reg fee I'm afraid.

 

[domainman101]

AOL has a TM on this no?

 

[wvtalbot]

AOL has a TM on this no?

See thats where I am unclear, I am a newbie and don't know a lot about trademark issues. AIM has many many commercial uses, heck it is also a toothpaste, I look at the US trademark website and the only thing I found under AIM was various logos for many many different companies. Now I would GUESS that aim is too common of a word for the word itself to be trademarked. Any clarification from an expert would be great.

 

[Ben42]

"AOL INSTANT MESSENGER" seems to have many trademarks, but not "AIM".

May just need a better search though, but I can't find it.

uspto.gov

 

[Rob J]

you'd probably be better off with something more generic like blockims.com (which happens to be available, probably not for long)

 

[Ben42]

One thing it does have going for it is even though someone may be talking about any Instant Messenger they say do you have AIM?

And then you say yes and they tell you their msn id. :lol: