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Gday,

Was just looking for a Motorola Xoom on eBay, and came across XoomByMotorola[dot]com for sale. The guy is asking 9,999,999 GPB for the domain.

Now, I'm no expert, but I didn't really see a value anywhere near this much.

Can anybody explain to me the logic between listing a domain name at a price this high?

Cheers,
Richard
 
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From what I can gather it's reverse marketing per say.....this person has no intention to sell......think of it like free marketing which will result in a few visitors etc...least that's my take on it. Seems to happen more and more as time passes so it must be a reverse marketing ploy.
 
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It's a trademark violation as well. Marketing or just looking for offers and doesn't want to disclose a reserve.
 
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Thanks fellas. You'd think ebay would pull down a trademark violation as obvious as that!
 
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ebay.net.in was on auction couple of days ago. Same user also had youtube.org.in for auction as well

You think that's bad, check out googlebing.com lol.
 
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There used to be a time when people would market their domains by "selling" them at the max price eBay would allow on a listing. That increased visibility when sorting by price. Thing is that the market has been cluttered up so much at the top end now that I would assume there is a general blindness that occurs when listing at eBay max price now. Most sellers are listing with "best offer" enabled, so maybe they might get a domain newbie who offers 1/10000th of the buy it now price and they still make a killing. People know that no domain on there is going to be worth the $21 million USD max. I think there is a huge frustration with eBay sellers with domains listed at max price. There is so much garbage there that it just makes the whole market look like a mess.

I don't believe that eBay could ever think that the domain section of the site is anywhere near perfect, but they are probably lacking the manpower to do much about it. In order to change it, they would need to take TLD, length, traffic info, estibot (or some other valuation service), registration info, etc into account for those listings. If the domains don't meet a certain criteria, then they shouldn't be allowed above a certain price point, say $100, $1000, $10000, etc. That way eBay would have the crap separated from the good stuff and make a much better domain marketplace for both buyer and seller. But, as it stands now, eBay can't even keep .net out of the .com category. Sad.
 
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When you see a 21 million price on Ebay you can be sure of two things:
1- The domain is crap
2- The owner is an idiot

One of the biggest headaches I ever had on Ebay was when one of these clowns bought one of my domains. Worse than a deadbeat, he was complete nutter.

On the bright side, all the clutter in Ebay means that there are great bargains buried there for those who are willing to invest the time searching. If they cleaned it up, that wouldn't be so.
 
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ebay.net.in was on auction couple of days ago. Same user also had youtube.org.in for auction as well

You think that's bad, check out googlebing.com lol.


What happens to a name like that if there are 2 completely different obvious TM's? (i.e. googlebing.com )

Certainly couldn't be awarded to either party?
 
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What happens to a name like that if there are 2 completely different obvious TM's? (i.e. googlebing.com )

You get twice the chance of getting in trouble
 
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What happens to a name like that if there are 2 completely different obvious TM's? (i.e. googlebing.com )

Certainly couldn't be awarded to either party?

In that case you take the owner directly to court and sue him or her instead of asking politely to transfer the name.
 
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Just some newbie with no idea of domain value lol
 
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