The irony of selling dotcom names on a dotcom site for prospective web3 uses is entertaining.
Fun fact about the legal profession generally - There are a lot of rules in various states about how lawyers may, or may not, identify themselves in advertising. If you think of major law firms, none of them go by names like โDUILawyer.comโ or โDivorceLawyer.comโ - both of which have gone unsold for years. Thatโs because lawyersโ reputations are generally built on their own names, and occasionally a distinctive name for their practice. Sure, there are some generic/descriptive leadgen/referral sites, but no serious litigator is going to want something like โcryptolawsuits.comโ etc.. If I were looking to drop a couple hundred K on tech litigation in general, Iโd get in touch with Morrison and Foerster, Wilson Sonsini, or some other established firm with an actual track record and reputation in tech litigation.
Whatโs doubly annoying is that I get several emails a week from some clown who thinks I want DomainTrademarkLawyer.com or some other nonsense like that. First off, I donโt advertise, but most of my business is from word of mouth and referrals by satisfied clients. People get in touch with me because they know what I do, and theyโve heard that Iโm good at it. Most lawyersโ businesses operate that way.
The ones that have to use gimmicks or buy leads are the ones that nobody recommends.
Names like that are also limiting. Thereโs a range of things that any lawyer or firm does. So, why would I want to use, say, UDRPlawyer.com when thatโs just one thing I do?
In any event, I wish you the best of luck, but looking to sell .com names in a market where, as indicated by the comments above, the participants expressly eschew .com names seems like trying to sell rosary beads to Hajjis at the Mecca airport.
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