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[mirecart]

Just picked this up from an expire list, any thoughts on its value now that Disneyland have just announced a new theme-park

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/disney-reveal-first-image-of-star-wars-theme-parks/412121

 

[kite26]

Just picked this up from an expiry list, any things on its value now that Disneyland announced new theme-park

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/disney-reveal-first-image-of-star-wars-theme-parks/412121

Doesn't have tm problem?

 

[mirecart]

Doesn't have tm problem?

individually i guess they would, but given it is a combination of words and was originally registered back in 2007 i thought it was worth the $20 reg fee.

 

[kite26]

individually i guess they would, but given it is a combination of words and was originally registered back in 2007 i thought it was worth the $20 reg fee.

Hmm... I dunno..I would avoid it..

 

[mirecart]

Hmm... I dunno..I would avoid it..

I've already purchased it, so will have to wait and see. Also i may just turn it into a review site for their new theme park.

 

[kite26]

Sure, but you are in appraisal section and I told you my opinion.

 

[mirecart]

I've already purchased it, so will have to wait and see.

Sure, but you are in appraisal section and I told you my opinion.

Your right its about an appraisal and while I thank you for your opinion, did you want to appraise it (ie assess the value or quality of) or just provide an opinion.

 

[kite26]

Your right its about an appraisal and while I thank you for your opinion, did you want to appraise it (ie assess the value or quality of) or just provide an opinion.

About value I don't see anything, unless I miss sth.

 

[ecalc]

pros
dot com tld
moderate keyword search volume

cons
sld 18 letters, 3 words
identical to 2 registered trademarks
Disney Enterprises and Lucasfilm are batting over .900 as UDRP complainants
ACPA 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d) legal risk

wholesale: $.X
retail: $X

Good luck!

 

[johname]

Just picked this up from an expire list

Remember some domains drop for other reasons than forgetting to pay renewals, or giving up on the domain.

This would be a great candidate for a C&D letter fear delete.

Then a domainer picks it up.

Ok here the lowdown.

Fan makes fan page for people that likes DL and SW starting in 2006

This person never dreams DL would one day buy SW and open a Starwars Land at DL.

Website stops updating the year Lucas sells to DL (hint)

Dropped like a hot potato in 2016.

Soon to be dropped again the prediction. (try to be out of this before Star Wars Land opens)\

Good Luck

 

[Cheaptrick]

That is an interesting domain. The original owners have a FB page - facebook.com/StarWarsDisneyland

Wayback shows it to be some sort of group of SW fans protesting Disneylands lack of star wars weekends at their park.


Whats weird is that site went back to 2007 (before Disney bought Lucasfilms rights in 2012) and somehow lasted until 2016 without an issue. I suspect someone stopped caring, died, life got in the way...etc, and the domain just dropped unnoticed.

Still seems like a dangerous piece of property to have.......

 

[Tia Wood]

My thoughts are:

• get rid of it ASAP
• you should have known better
• this is a disaster waiting to happen
• see the first thought

 

[mirecart]

That is an interesting domain. The original owners have a FB page - facebook.com/StarWarsDisneyland

Wayback shows it to be some sort of group of SW fans protesting Disneylands lack of star wars weekends at their park.


Whats weird is that site went back to 2007 (before Disney bought Lucasfilms rights in 2012) and somehow lasted until 2016 without an issue. I suspect someone stopped caring, died, life got in the way...etc, and the domain just dropped unnoticed.

Still seems like a dangerous piece of property to have.......

This is what it looked like just 2 months ago, https://web.archive.org/web/20160506012145/http://www.starwarsdisneyland.com/

Seems it was offering fan days at DL and even had affiliate links to their site.

 

[james haw]

This is discussion based on previous knowledge and research, I have no legal training etc and some cases have been won with large corp names in the domain.

individually i guess they would, but given it is a combination of words and was originally registered back in 2007

Disneyland was opened July 17, 1955

So this really doesn't matter, especially with billion dollar companies with legal teams with budgets bigger than you can imagine.The fact "Disney" and "Disneyland" is in the name is enough for them to "potentially" take it from you.

It doesn't matter if you wrap it in more words to change the context, trademarks are not just "this word in this scenario" as they cater for branches from that, especially when a huge commercial brand is potentially being infringed upon.

And that is for more generic words, where as the words in your domain are not general words in the dictionary where you can plead ignorance, every keyword in your domain name is from a made up brand name.

Imagine yourself in court and asked "how do you plan on using Star Wars Disneyland"? Disneyland is a specific thing as is Star Wars, you cannot possibly have any reason to use this outside their name/brand/franchise etc.

http://www.udrpsearch.com/search?query=disneyland&search=domain

"hotels-nearby-disneyland.com" - transferred.
This could easily be argued to be a non-trademark issue as they just want to provide info about hotels near a place on Earth, but it was transferred because of the word "Disneyland".



If you feel so confident you're safe, then you'll have no issues emailing Disney. However, do you feel that would be ok? If no then you yourself know this is a problem.

It would be really futile (..please don't). I really think you should grace delete it or tell the registrar you made a mistake and get rid.




UDRP discussion over, the valuation:
Consider that if you cannot sell to Disney as that would admit trademark/bad faith etc, who are you going to sell to? Who else has a mega corp franchise called Star Wars as an attraction at a theme park called Disneyland?
$0 I'm afraid - with potential to lose money in UDRP (or at least your time replying to it all and losing the domain name anyway).

 

[N-A]

First, you need to learn about TM domain names. I'll give it reg fee, as many have already stated why it's $0, but I don't wish to reiterate that.

i thought it was worth the $20 reg fee.

Secondly, you need to find a new registrar if they're charging you $20 for a .com domain.

 

[mirecart]

First, you need to learn about TM domain names. I'll give it reg fee, as many have already stated why it's $0, but I don't wish to reiterate that.

Secondly, you need to find a new registrar if they're charging you $20 for a .com domain.

It was $14.99 USD from name.com expire list but converted to AUD its $20.

 

[usernamex]

https://www.name.com/support/articles/205188688-Refund-Policy
Expiring Domain Names: We are not able to refund expiring domain names

I am sorry for your loss : smile :

ETA To clarify - EXPIRING is NOT refundable

I was commenting in cases OTHER than expiring
(see link) name.com has good 5 day delete policy by support email only, have used in past

 

[mirecart]

https://www.name.com/support/articles/205188688-Refund-Policy
Expiring Domain Names: We are not able to refund expiring domain names

I am sorry for your loss : smile :

Otherwise (see link) name.com has good 5 day delete policy by support email only, have used in past

Thanks for the heads up, I've emailed Name.com support on a web hosting matter and 2 days later am still waiting so the 5 day rule may be a waste.

 

[james haw]

Thanks for the heads up, I've emailed Name.com support on a web hosting matter and 2 days later am still waiting so the 5 day rule may be a waste.

I'm not certain, but surely they must factor in the date you sent the request, not just registration date? Otherwise they'd have to somehow factor in their response time (ie 3 days from date of register and 2 days for our response time).
Is worth a try,

 

[usernamex]

This won't be eligible for refund - edited first post for clarity