OK... so I sold a domain to Disney...

[briman1970]

I registered Underdog-Movie in the .com a few months back after I found out they were gonna make a movie. I figured I'd make a little type-in rev you know... Well, I got an offer for $500 on Sedo! So I countered at $600, and thought to myself... oh man, I hope they accept! Then I went to archive.org to see if someone owned it before me.

The next day I got an offer for $1350 via email. ARRRGGHHUUUGGHHH!!!!!

I told the guy that I had already made a binding counter-offer at Sedo and now I had to wait for their response. He thanked me kindly and went on his way. About 3-4 hours later, the Sedo dude accepted my offer.

At that point I was wondering... hmmmm could both of those offers be from Disney? Well, I kept the name in my Sedo lineup and it kept getting traffic and revenue for quite a while, until today.

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Oh well, I guess I should consider myself lucky for not getting a C&D.

 

[SiteBuyer]

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[Traveler]

$600 is alot better than a C&D!

Heck, in most cases $8 would be better than a C&D!

 

[wot]

Even with a C & D it is probably not going to cost you money if you do just that - anyway - well done!

 

[floatingworld]

$600! 'That's All Folks!'

 

[tetrapak]

Heck, in most cases $8 would be better than a C&D!

-8$ you mean

 

[goodkarmaco]

I'm gonna get you damn wabbit

Thats almost funny. Amazing they just bought it. Awesome news.

 

[movingconcierge]

You were totally lucky...do the math. Where else can you turn $8 into $600 legally and without stinking like a casino

 

[bluearrow]

Aww thats really cool, getting 600 bucks for a that kinda domain you are a lucky guy...

 

[TheBulldog]

I think a C & D may have been slightly difficult in this case.....underdog is really a generic term.

Sure, you obviously were up to no good and you admitted it, but seriously, in this case, we were rooting for you because you were the underdog. And if we made a movie about your life........

 

[Damion]

$600! 'That's All Folks!'

:lol:

Good sale anyways Brian, Congratulations!

 

[slaughterbeck]

It’s interesting that they were prepared to offer $1,350, I’ll bet that’s because there are so many movies made that are about “Underdogs” and the price was just a little less than a WIPO would have cost them.

All in all, that's not too bad of an investment. Congrats Bri!


Best wishes,
Kimmy

 

[dongan]

nice sale though with many risks.

 

[TheBulldog]

interesting how many "movie" dot coms are available. Plus, there seem to be plenty of movie sites that use a dash like terror(dash)movie.com or even without like fairyprincessmovie.com.

=edit=
Well, those were available.

 

[domaindigger]

interesting how many "movie" dot coms are available. Plus, there seem to be plenty of movie sites that use a dash like terror(dash)movie.com or even without like fairyprincessmovie.com.

Why don't they just make a .movie extension that's not open for public registration (like .travel)? It would suck for domainers but would easily resolve the movie industry's problem and their nasty movie domain names.

 

[TheBulldog]

I would prefer they didn't. I just picked up some that I would like to sell to some hapless enduser.

One is generic, but also could be trouble so I want to unload it quick.

heroes-movie.com

 

[slaughterbeck]

Why don't they just make a .movie extension that's not open for public registration (like .travel)? It would suck for domainers but would easily resolve the movie industries problem and their nasty movie domain names.

Interesting idea but that could lead to some fierce competition within the industry itself. Just look at IMDB and you will find 6 movies (if you don't count Dodgeball) with the exact title “Underdog” in their database, five from this decade alone. Which is also one of the reasons Disney would have had such a difficult time proving that they owned any form of exclusivity to the rights of Underdog - Movie

Best wishes,
Kimmy

 

[gazzip]

Congrats, still a very nice profit.


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[IAmAllanShore]

Which is also one of the reasons Disney would have had such a difficult time proving that they owned any form of exclusivity to the rights of Underdog - Movie dotty com

That sounds like you're using the ACPA test instead of the UDRP - having trademark rights for UDRP doesn't mean to the exclusion of others, but merely that they had TM rights to the term "Underdog-Movie" somehow - a test that I submit they could have easily met. With Briman parking, most panels would find no legitimate usage/interest and, albeit an unpopular position in this crowd, that it was registered in bad faith (Heck - he admitted he registered it because of Disney's movie... I think any panel(ist) would have found the same thing.).

You got lucky that they didn't try anything aggressive before just buying it.

Just my .02

-Allan

 

[scandiman]

You got lucky that they didn't try anything aggressive before just buying it.

From a business perspective, buying it for $600 is probably 1/10 of what they would spend trying to spank him over it and they get the name much quicker. This looks like a win/win to me. Now if the OP got greedy and asked for $25k, then the cheaper solution is to take the owner to the woodshed.