domain MySpace.pro - please appraise

[ownthisdomainnow]

Thank you in advance for appraisals.

Thank you in advance for not just saying "tm issues".

The site is not going to copy ms.

There are plenty of creative myspace domains with other extensions.

Looking forward to ideas as far as value.

MySpace - OVT 18 million+

David

 

[625domains]

I know you don't want to hear about TM issues, but I will tell you anyway, if you park it eventually myspace will send out its lawyers against everyone who owns these myspace.TLD domains.

see here:I forgot the TESS database was session based sorry!

See what the trademark applies to, and look at the other ones who have registered it applying to other sectors, good luck with it!

You have registered it to sell it, you have admitted it has OVT value here in this post, any lawyer suing you over this would be able to use that as your acknowledgment that this domain was acquired with the knowledge that it would receive traffic due to how popular myspace.com is. Unless you can afford lawyers as good as the ones myspace.com has, don't renew it.

You can't ask people to not say the truth if your asking for an appraisal. This domain is valuable in that it would milk traffic from myspace.com, you admit this by saying OVT is over 18mil... why is it over 18mil? because of myspace.com not because people are searching for "a space of their own".

Reg-Fee

 

[vslevin]

Thank you in advance for not just saying "tm issues".

You might need to retract that pre-thanking, as that's exactly what you are going to be getting a lot of here.

My appraisal would be in the negative range, because of, you guessed it, TM issues!

The site is not going to copy ms.

Doesn't matter, still TM issues.

How did you even get a .pro domain? Don't you have to show professional credentials? With the hefty .pro reg fee, you just wasted a lot of money!

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

Re-read. The thank you was for not JUST saying .... well nevermind... People don't read it anyway.

Any response is better than no response.

I will say that tm's are not as cut and dried as most people think.

Back to the bashing...

Who paid 30,000 + for MySpaces.com anyway?

 

[wot]

You might need to retract that pre-thanking, as that's exactly what you are going to be getting a lot of here.

My appraisal would be in the negative range, because of, you guessed it, TM issues!
Doesn't matter, still TM issues.

How did you even get a .pro domain? Don't you have to show professional credentials? With the hefty .pro reg fee, you just wasted a lot of money!

Concur- waste of money and potential problems and you have posted the info for anyone who wants it. :bah:

 

[vslevin]

I will say that tm's are not as cut and dried as most people think.

True in some cases, but in this case, its pretty darn cut and dry.

 

[TheBulldog]

Total and complete trademark issue.

Good luck.

 

[snoop]

Thank you in advance for not just saying "tm issues".

Funny. So instead everyone should just think it and keep quiet :lol:

Back to the bashing...

Who paid 30,000 + for MySpaces.com anyway?

You've missed the point completely. Myspaces.com is a t/m infringement with real revenue, myspace.pro is just a t/m infringement, it has no revenue and no value.

 

[625domains]

Re-read. The thank you was for not JUST saying .... well nevermind... People don't read it anyway.

Any response is better than no response.

I will say that tm's are not as cut and dried as most people think.

Back to the bashing...

Who paid 30,000 + for MySpaces.com anyway?

That has a lot better chance at beating a TM issue than Myspace.TLD.

still a big chance of tm issues if you don't have a big wallet and good lawyers.

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

The thing is.... I didn'texpect to not hear TM TM TM.

What I hoped for was an even-keeled, creative, balanced approach. I know that is a lot to ask for in a piranha, reseller, environment like NP.

But seriously, there are other things to consider.

This could be a website for file storage, or roommate classifieds, or any number of things.

There is a whole myspace layouts and train culture that solely exists because of and outside of myspace. These help myspace, and most of them have myspace in their name.

Anyway, I never expected the TM issue to not come up. I just thought the conversation would be more creative.

By the way... funniest thing I have seen in the last week....

MySpace.tm is the only myspace tld not taken... (not counting .org.uk types) - could be wrong about that.

You have to admit... thats pretty funny.

I am not attacking anyone personally... No reason to get snide or personal with me.

I enjoy discussion.

 

[625domains]

The thing is.... I didn'texpect to not hear TM TM TM.

What I hoped for was an even-keeled, creative, balanced approach. I know that is a lot to ask for in a piranha, reseller, environment like NP.

But seriously, there are other things to consider.

This could be a website for file storage, or roommate classifieds, or any number of things.

There is a whole myspace layouts and train culture that solely exists because of and outside of myspace. These help myspace, and most of them have myspace in their name.

Anyway, I never expected the TM issue to not come up. I just thought the conversation would be more creative.

By the way... funniest thing I have seen in the last week....

MySpace.tm is the only myspace tld not taken... (not counting .org.uk types) - could be wrong about that.

You have to admit... thats pretty funny.

I am not attacking anyone personally... No reason to get snide or personal with me.

I enjoy discussion.

I did give you a balanced one, look at the TM page I posted above, a lawyer could stretch that to cover almost anything done on the internet, that was a well registered trademark, you have to not think of what myspace.com does but to what the trademark they hold pertain to.

I know you want this to be some golden egg, but it's not, myspace.com covered it's bases, dotted it's i's and crossed it's t's when they registered the name. you would never be able to keep this against the myspace.com lawyer machine.

 

[snoop]

This could be a website for file storage, or roommate classifieds, or any number of things.

There is a whole myspace layouts and train culture that solely exists because of and outside of myspace. These help myspace, and most of them have myspace in their name.

The thing is this name isn't being used in any defensible way, it *could* be lots of things, but what it is, is a blank page.

Secondly who in their right mind would build this into a roommate classifieds sites or a file storage when it is likely the person will eventually get a knock on the door and a letter to cease and desist?

There is no obvious reason for developing this name in my view. It has large legal liability attached to it and no obvious benefits to compensate for that (the ext is unknown by the general public). Indeed the more popular such a site became the more of a target it would be.

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

Well, I appreciate the input. I understand and appreciate the responses. I am not naive, and will not try to convince anyone of anything. I am sure some of you immediately thought "idiot" when you saw my title. I may have also had I seen it posted by another member. At the same time I would have thought, "I hope he is able to make something out of it."

I suppose I should be thankful that you all deemed my thread worthy of posting. Not much help as far as monetary appraisal, but I run some forums, and would be happy if people joned into the conversation the way you all have.

David

 

[Kate]

The problem is that 'myspace' is nearly a household term. It's so well known that regardless of what you do with the domain you'll have a sword of Damocles hanging over your head (hear from the lawyers one day).
If I registered disney.pro or cocacola.pro even to set up a personal blog I would still have problems sooner or later don't you think ?
My point is that 'myspace' does not look to be of generic nature. 'Room', 'space', or 'storage' on the other hand look safe.

 

[Ben42]

There are plenty of .pro's out there to keep it generic. I would write that one off as a loss and focus on your generic terms for .pro.

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

Cracks me up... Take a powerful unlimited use phrase.... and write it off....

Yeah, thats gonna happen.