FreeTetris.com sold for only $1,750?

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I was a bidder in the Namejet auction for FreeTetris.com which was picked up for $1,750.

When I did a Google search for 'tetris', freetetris.org beat out the official tetris.com site! Also, the freetetris.org site gets more than 1.5 million visitors per month.

Given the above, why then did the domain freetetris.com sell for so low? Was it because people missed this under the radar? Were they afraid of the trademark issues (which, btw, freetetris.org won an arbitration brought by The Tetris Company in Sep 2007).

So, can anyone explain to me what I'm missing here? To me, if I can get a dot-com and the corresponding dot-org is getting that type of traffic, I would have paid 10X what was paid by the winner of the auction.

Thanks!

 

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Can anyone help answer? I'm a newbie at this so would be great if some veterans can give me an idea of how they would value a domain like this!

Thanks.

 

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I'm pretty sure tetris is a trademark owned by Nintendo, there was infact a huge legal dispute that basically sunk Atari, FreeTetris.com is therefore a bit suspect but would still attract high traffic, a case of make hay while the sun shines.

 

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yes it is tm

In late 1997[21] and in mid-2006,[22] TTC's legal counsel sent cease and desist letters to web sites that misused the Tetris trademark to refer to homemade tetromino games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris

 

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Thanks, that was very helpful!