Do small City/town domain names have value?

[Bigvenue]

I registered some city/town domain names like burkemont.com,verdoy.com (USA) and many more. are these domains going to gain value in the future?
any idea?

 

[End User King]

Depends if the area is booming or not. Potential business and potential employers and the like.

 

[Gerrit]

I don't want to sound whining, I'm saying this more to warn: be careful with town names and .com -- barcelona.com was claimed by Barcelona City Council and they won the court case. Dangerous precedent.

 

[Bigvenue]

under US law, a party cannot held a valid trademark in the name of a geographical place.spain used their law.so registration of a city domain name is lawful and entitle to protection under 15 U.S.C. §1114(2)(D)(v

 

[ekal]

Really? - at the bottom of Barcelona.com it says:

Barcelona.com, Inc. is an independent U.S. commercial company, not related to any civic institution.

 

[Charley]

what about other COUNTRIES , are registration of cities, capitals, etc allowed ... For eg in Europe, Asia, Australia, so on?

 

[ekal]

Yes - but sometimes places do try to grab them. Check for details on MalibuPier.com for example.

 

[Charley]

I mean like cant I have NewYorkcity.com and so on.

 

[Gerrit]

what about other COUNTRIES , are registration of cities, capitals, etc allowed ... For eg in Europe, Asia, Australia, so on?

New Zealand government claimed newzealand.com as far as I know. I guess it depends on local laws. Under .info all country names are forbidden to be registered (so for example germany.info is forbidden) and .eu forbids registrations of the member states' names (so no spain.eu possible)

I wonder what happens when you register germany.cc or germany.ge or so ; do local laws of the country ruling the extention apply, or international laws?

 

[ForexPros]

I think they are worthy if you have a small business. If you are trying to resell than not much

 

[Charley]

Wish someone could post an informative thread or link on these laws for different countries.