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DefinitelyMaybe <dot> me
DefinitelyMaybe <dot> org
DefinitelyMaybe <dot> info

I know it was frivolous and unjustifiable, but I couldn't
resist registering all three of those, based on traffic
and the humor of it alone.

I probably will just lose money... But I can have some fun doing
it, right? I'm sure no one would want to buy them, but then
it wouldn't be that hard to figure out some fun content for them...

What do you think?
 
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I think you sumed it up urself, not sure they are worth much without the .com or .net but yer, i would love developing that. Possibly a site for people to upload problems (like what to wear) and users help them out? Nice name...just not that valuable :)
Joe
 
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Zero value as sellable domain names; it's a movie name so there are TM issues and you'll need to be careful how you use them; but if you have a development idea in mind then you don't need them to have reseller value. If you don't have a clear plan/use (that's not related to the movie), delete 'em for refund if you can, IMO :)
 
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Zero value as sellable domain names; it's a movie name so there are TM issues and you'll need to be careful how you use them; but if you have a development idea in mind then you don't need them to have reseller value. If you don't have a clear plan/use (that's not related to the movie), delete 'em for refund if you can, IMO :)

Well, I wouldn't violate the TM if I didn't refer to the movie in any way, right?

I probably can't get a refund. The .COM doesn't seem to be having TM problems.

I don't understand why a term that gets so many searches a month wouldn't be valuable. Didn't occur to me that it was a movie driving that volume though. It's kind of like wicked.pro, which I bought (and sold) awhile ago... It showed a lot of searches and it took me a little while to figure out why... Duh... Why would people search for "Wicked" other than a play? :))

I'm not sure I can get into trademark problems because it is both and album and unrelated (I think) movie, and if I allude to neither how could I get in trouble?
 
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If you steered clear of the movie-related stuff then I expect you'd be fine. Even if you did use movie stuff, ethically/legally it's wrong but you might slip by just fine without any legal problems. It's a crap shoot that most of us are now staying away from, best not to even deal with TM names at all, rather than trying to get all inventive and try use them in a way we think won't infringe on TM's. Many domainers/developers still play with TM names and sites and get away with it... but that doesn't make it legal or right.
But, all that traffic/searches over the name won't help you much, with that keyphrase you'll never get a site anywhere near page 1 on search engines when your content doesn't match with the movie content that is being optimized and searched for... you'd have to build traffic to your site/s using hand-labor methods. Doesn't matter how many monthly searches a term gets, your site won't see much of that traffic unless you're ranked high up in the serps so people can actually see it when they search that term on the engines. I have some domains/minisites that get into the tens/hundreds of thousands of searches for that term, but since they have no hope of making it to Google page 1 due to all the competition, I hardly see a scratch of traffic on them. I get much more traffic from my niche names with fewer searches but which make it to page 1 and spot 1 on google for that term.

In other words, I'd rather have a niche name, build a minisite for it, based on a term that gets 2000 monthly searches, because I know I can get it to page 1 on the engines and all or most of those searches will actually see my site. It'll do much better than if I take a term that has 200,000 monthly searches in a dot.info or other ext. and build a site around those, because they simply won't make it close to page 1 on search engines and I'd be lucky if a couple handfuls of visitors saw it each month.

All this is presuming you're building simple sites. If you're pouring money and time into a huge site, marketing, advertising, link building, article submissions, then that's a whole different story.

Hope this helps :)
 
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To me I don't see any marketing values to it
 
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DefinitelyMaybe <dot> me
DefinitelyMaybe <dot> org
DefinitelyMaybe <dot> info

.. But I can have some fun doing
it, right?

What do you think?

I am afraid I can't see any funny side of it.
 
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I am afraid I can't see any funny side of it.

It was not typical. For some reason it struck me as funny today.
In retrospect I wonder what I was thinking. Oh well, I have
more pragmatic domains. Too bad it's a movie though. I should
have checked. If I'd known I wouldn't have registered it, because
it takes the fun out of it in general.

You win some, you lose some. I don't like throwing money away,
but I probably did this time. I might experiment with the .info
flavor to see what happens.

Thanks
 
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I see nothing in these domains unless they're gonna be developed. Potential TM issues for any buyer combined with the fact that "Definitely" is the most mispelled word in the english language makes me say Reg Fee.

Regards,
Gregory
 
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