domain Killswitch.info

[jkennedy]

Any ideas or appraisals for Killswitch.info?
Ever heard of the band killswitch engage?
Google results for killswitch: Results 1 - 10 of about 3,830,000 for killswitch.

All TLD's reg'd.

 

[jkennedy]

friendly bump.

 

[jkennedy]

anyone?

 

[JGK]

Any ideas or appraisals for Killswitch.info?
Ever heard of the band killswitch engage?
Google results for killswitch: Results 1 - 10 of about 3,830,000 for killswitch.

All TLD's reg'd.

Pros:
Decent search results.
Decent search frequency.

Cons:
The .info doesn't really fit the domain.
Would be hard to monetize well.
Many of the results and searches are for a band (Killswitch Engage) and a video game (kill.switch).
The only real use I can think of is an informative site (or minisite) about kill switches. Even if that were put up, there could be TM issues if contextual ads such as AdSense were used.

Appraisal:
$x, possibly a little profit over the $0.99 reg. fee.

 

[jkennedy]

Pros:
Decent search results.
Decent search frequency.

Cons:
The .info doesn't really fit the domain.
Would be hard to monetize well.
Many of the results and searches are for a band (Killswitch Engage) and a video game (kill.switch).
The only real use I can think of is an informative site (or minisite) about kill switches. Even if that were put up, there could be TM issues if contextual ads such as AdSense were used.

Appraisal:
$x, possibly a little profit over the $0.99 reg. fee.

How could I have TM issues on a mini site about kill switches?

 

[JGK]

How could I have TM issues on a mini site about kill switches?

If you use killswitch.info and contextual ads for KillSwitch Engage and kill.switch show up, there may be an argument for bad faith, even though your content itself was not infringing. I'm by no means an expert on this though. Maybe someone else will stop in and add more or refute me, or you could search the forum for "TM" / "trademark" / etc.

 

[Epic]

(( High $X - Low $XX ))

Has potential for a website about that old game kill.switch, possibly? Technically there are TM issues, but in reality, fansites are good publicity so companies generally leave them alone.

 

[fatter]

as long as you make a site about kill switches, which are used in an emergency shutoff used in machinery you would be fine.

 

[omegapandor]

I really doubt a video game company would raise hell. There are all kinds of game fansites. In fact, you could download a fansite kit for that game perhaps. . .there are lots of fansite kits (for other games).

However, kill.switch wasn't a great game, so I bet finding a fansite kit would be hard, and it wouldn't really be worth the work.

Just sell it on ebay or something for $7.