Fb.link - Fb.com sold for $8M and Facebook is buying all FB Domains

[Arfy]

I am the owner of Fb.link and Fb.click. Fb.com sold to Facebook for $8.5M and they have also just acquired. no_url_shorteners for URL shortening. Fb.link(especially this one) and Fb.click are two hot domains that Facebook would want to snap up and are potentially worth several hundreds of thousands each.

Estibot has shown this domain to be valued at $10,000 but it is worth much more than this.

 

[kev]

I'm sure everyone at some stage starts off by registering trademark names...read the forums and you will become a better domainer

 

[Arfy]

Just create a Facebook account and become his friend. Then just send him a message.

Just create a Facebook account and become his friend. Then just send him a message.

Hey if you think you can sell it to him why not buy the domains from me and sell them to Mark

 

[Arfy]

[QUOTE="MasterOfMyDomains, post: 5829780, member: 89040"

He replies to tweets in minutes some times[/QUOTE]

I have tweeted that but I don't think it is his real account

 

[Arfy]

Speaking realistically ...

If you want to contact him, I can put you in touch, but it won't be by these names ... As for the people saying UDRP, Mark wouldn't waste his time.

But if you have something valuable and promising, and when you have something valuable and promising;
I'll be more then happy to show his lawyers ...

Best Regards,

Alex

Hi Alex,

I appreciate your reply, finally someone who is willing to offer some help rather than just spam the post. I wanted to make Mark aware of these domains as they could be used for URL shortening, advertising links, app APIs, redirect domains, sandbox domains and or backup domains amongst many more use cases. If you are able to show these to his lawyers I would be very grateful for your help. If they are not interested at least I know where I stand. Furthermore I agree that Mark would not file a UDRP as I am sure he is a reasonable person and I am not trying to extort money or use the domain maliciously to damage the brand. I have reached out in the first instance to make him aware of the fact that I am in possession of these domains. Furthermore, any money I do end up raising will be for my parents who are both unwell and whom I want to help retire. My father is a postman who currently has a problem with his foot and is still having to work and my mother has just had surgery to have a pacemaker fitted and she will have to go back to working in a supermarket a few days later. I am just doing what I can for them.

Thanks,

Arfhan

 

[platey]

I own 0ffice.space with a zero so that appears to have a capital letter as domains dont have capital letters using the new gtld .space before mark bought work.space

i have grocerydrivethru.com a new way to collect groceries on the spur of the moment - no online ordering no queues no parking just extremely fast grocery picked for you while you wait

and grocerytakeaway.com grocery concept having grocery delivered as fast as a takeaway meal etc

but i am a tech ideas concepts guy
i have the ideas

i have flyingseats.com which could be bigger than Google flying cars

 

[Landov]

Go ahead and message Zuckerberg on Facebook, but don't expect more than $20,000 per each, according to Namebio, because they are trademarked. He won't sue you for this price, bad image.

He paid $8.5M for the image, to not look that he "steals" the domain from an organization.

 

[platey]

I don't own this domain and do not profess to own this domain name but j think it is a domain name that would be perfect for Facebook

i reckon it won't be long before mark puts in an offer for freefood.com

a perfect two keyword .com that says what it does in its domain name and it being a .com

The sheer volume of people wanting free food that would visit a website that offered free food would probably be greater than the amount of people that use Facebook

mark would need to set aside possibly $5 billion ish to initially offer free food globally and recoup that investment from the ads on the website until within a couple of years it would be a completely self funded website giving away free food globally

 

[Rainmaker-NL]

brand issues will likely be handled by lawyers not mark. They are dealing with cybersquatters all day long don't expect them to be nice.

You are knowingly trying to profit from their brand by contacting them.(bad faith)

It's at best borderline cybersquatting at worst it is cybersquatting.

I think similar offers to large TM holders (I think something like vw.TLD) resulted in an UDRP in the past.

You really don't know what you are doing. Buy generic domains and contact potential buyers.

Stay away from TMs.



You are posting in public that you are buying up fb.TLD domains intending to sell them to facebook and hoping to get more than $10k per name.

The only reasonable reaction that you can expect from their lawyers would be an UDRP or threaten to sue you.

Exactly.
I own staples[dot]online and clinique[dot]online. After registration I learned that those names are also used by two large companies. I didnt know that, and I have no intention of contacting them because I am planning to make two beautiful websites about staples en about health clinics in France and Belgium. It would be absurd to even suggest otherwise and I would strongly disagree if you did.....

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I don't own this domain and do not profess to own this domain name but j think it is a domain name that would be perfect for Facebook

i reckon it won't be long before mark puts in an offer for freefood.com

a perfect two keyword .com that says what it does in its domain name and it being a .com

The sheer volume of people wanting free food that would visit a website that offered free food would probably be greater than the amount of people that use Facebook

mark would need to set aside possibly $5 billion ish to initially offer free food globally and recoup that investment from the ads on the website until within a couple of years it would be a completely self funded website giving away free food globally

Are you in the right thread?

 

[platey]

Seriously ? Stop dreaming. If domaining was that easy we would all be millionaires.

some are - (allegedly)

 

[platey]

Only a handful. They all made their fortunes on .com though.

There is still extremely big money to be made in .com domains depending on the quality of .com bought and the price paid and the time an investor is prepared to sit on them

 

[Haris]

They own a shorter domains like fb.com and no_url_shorteners so why would they want a .link or .click for 'url shortening'?

Just auction your domains, and invest the profit in better domains.

 

[iwon24]

let these go and do not try to contact facebook. they aint going to see what you are thinking and messing around with massive companies like facebook is asking for trouble. what you think could be a big payday could make you bankrupt.

 

[platey]

allegedly Facebook are going video so if they wanted any other gtld they might want fb.video or fb.videos but they are more than capable of finding them and negotiating a fair reasonable price with the existing owners if they do not own them already?

 

[eurorealtor]

Woah buddy ...

Did you just call me Spam ?

No.

 

[ZapNano]

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[platey]

there should be an alternative to udrps

udrps are ok i suppose if s trademark owner wins but very expensive if a udrp is lost

a much better alternative is for a trademark owner to pay domain name investor $100 maximum effectively a finders fee

that way a trademark owner gets the domain they want the domain name investor recoups some of their expense instead of nothing at all and its s dairy way of resolving a common problem in domain name investing which allows the domain name industry to progress instead of decrease in to all but nothing


Facebook may start a new trend on how to buy trademark infringed domains from domain name investors the effortless way that rewards both fb and the domain name investor

long term udrps are a complete waste of time

 

[ZapNano]

Facebook purchased FB and used it for acronym for "Facebook" for their business. For thier business "Fb" stands for "Facebook" nothing else.

 

[ZapNano]

chances are that mark will not make decisions regarding this. lawyers will.

Acronyms are not safe. There are many decisions against acronyms when used in bad faith.

FB, should only stands for "Facebook"

 

[platey]

It won't be long before Facebook do the same i suppose with gr as in gameroom gr.com etc and or ws? As i suppose work.space ws.com

 

[disaac81]

Redundant, irrelevant and useless to facebook imo.

If you can only imagine the trademark holders use for the domains you buy then you are in this game with a very narrow vision, and bad ethics too.

 

[dordomai]

I'm sure everyone at some stage starts off by registering trademark names...read the forums and you will become a better domainer

i think the ones starting with TMs either adapt or drop out quickly.

The worst that can happen is that you get lucky and you make some money with TMs.

Then you will just get greedy and buy more and try to repeat the same strategy. Then it's only a question of time before it is virtually guaranteed that you get into massive trouble.