Parking and trademark question

[chat111]

Hi, I have a question about the parking on domain marketplace website, such as Sedo.

For example, I have a domain "faceworld.com". When I park it at Sedo, the links which appear on the page almost all have to do with social websites - and it seems that the reason for this is the association of faceworld with facebook.

It appears that there is no way to control which links appear on the parked page. Even if I change the master keyword and related categories to something completely opposite, such as science, it does not affect the advertisements. (There is some sort of disclaimer which Sedo places at the bottom of the page, to the extent that neigher Sedo nor owner of the domain can control the advertisement.)

My question is, can this be considered as a possible trademark violation? I've never done parking before, and even now the only reason for it is to sell the domain name. To park at Sedo means there will be a website out there with a link to the sales page, which may help to find potential buyers, and at the same time it is free in that I don't have to pay for the hosting. But I am worried about the trademark issue, I would have gladly disabled all ads but I don;t think you can.

 

[Erdy]

Yes, parking is a bad idea. I suggest URL forwarding the domain to its sedo listing page.

If your domain was example.com you would forward it to this link:
http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=example.com

In that link change example.com to the actual domain you own. The domain you mentioned in your message is now listed in sedo.

 

[chat111]

Ooo cool many thanks Erdy, the example of the link it is fantastic. Makes it even better than parking page, more professional!

(grrr network solutions charge for domain forwarding, off to search for a coupon!)

 

[Erdy]

network solutions is one of the worst and most expensive registrars out there along with register.com. Both of them are rubbish. I suggest dynadot.com or namecheap.com.

As a temporary solution to avoid paid URL forwarding you can do the following:

1. creater an account at mydomain.com
2. login to your mydomain.com account
3. on top left click the link that says "Manage Service Domains"
4. On the page that opens click "add domains" and add them. You will see a confirmation message and under the message it says "add services". Click that link.
5. Add a service called "Domain Tools Bundle" and go through checkout to pay zero USD ( I know it is stupid but it is free).
6. Now go back to mydomain.com home page and again click the "Manage Service Domains" link on top left and "refresh display" if you don't see the domain you just added.
7. Click the link that says "Forwarding/DNS Management".
8. On the page that opens enter the http://www.sedo.com/search/... link to destination and change forwarding type from "stealth forwarding" to "standard forwarding". Click update.
9. Now go to your network solutions account and change the nameservers to NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM.
10. Wait a few hours for the nameservers to activate and you will have free URL forwarding.

By the way, URL forwarding is one of the most basic features any crappy registrar offers for free. There are a few registrars that charge for it and they are greedy bastards.

 

[chat111]

Many thanks!! Done that. They are greedy bastards lol, when i transferred to them they seemed kind of "safer" than other registrars, and I only own couple of domain names so thought oh well. But now that there is so much more choice out there, next year they probably won't be my choice.