domain Please Appraise www.kaysjewelry.co

[InternetConsulting]

Thanks for your evaluations in advance.

This site is ranked for several keywords. The keyword: kays jewelry gets 14000 exact searches
and kays jewelers gets 49000 exact searches.

kays jewelers 18,000 250 1% 6.8
kays jewelry 15,000 150 1% 8.0
premier jewelry 6,500 <10 - 9.3
kays jewelry 4,500 90 2% 4.3
kays jewlers 900 <10 - 6.2
kays jewlery 600 12 2% 7.9
kays jewerly 400 <10 - 7.6
kays jeweler 400 <10 - 7.8
kaysjewelry.co 320 22 7% 1.0
kays 320 <10 - 3.0
kaysjewelry 250 30 12% 1.1
kays jewelry store 200 <10 - 8.4
kays jewler 200 <10 - 9.1
kay's jewelry 200 <10 - 6.4
kays jewelery 200 <10 - 8.4
jewelry stores 110 <10 - 69
silver jewelry 110 <10 - 83
premiere jewelry 90 <10 - 9.9
kays-jewelry.com 90 <10 - 7.9
kays jewellers 90 <10 - 7.1
kays jewlry 70 <10 - 8.8
premier jewlery 70 <10 - 10
kays jewels 60 <10 - 11
kays jewery 60 <10 - 8.6
kaysjewelry.com 60 <10 - 7.6

 

[eurorealtor]

No offense, but Kay Jewelry would be a TradeMark conflict. In that case $0 and better drop the name, to avoid any troubles. Good luck

 

[ecalc]

The keywords [kays jewelry] are searched thanks to the branding efforts of Sterling Jewelers. Sterling has been known to defend their IP: http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1224134.htm
Monetizing the domain name without infringing the famous mark could prove to be difficult. The Colombian country code is the cherry on top. Buena suerte!

 

[av1atic]

The reason any of those numbers exist is because it's a trademarked brand.

http://www.kay.com/lwp/wcm/connect/Kay/Customer+Service/About+Kay+Jewelers/

I'd get rid of that name ASAP.

 

[johname]

$0 Buena suerte!

 

[InternetConsulting]

Its important to understand and research what you are talking about before you comment on a post.
© Copyright 2000-2012 Kay Jewelers, a division of Sterling Jewelers, Inc. 375 Ghent Road, Akron, OH 44333

Kays Jewelry is just a keyword not a copyrighted name. Kay Jewelers is the name of the business. This domain is not trademark.

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Also most ppl do not realize that .co domain is not Columbian.
Its new since 2010 or 2011 and looked upon with equal status as the .com

I've ranked kaysjewelry.co and budgetcarinsurance.co
Please ppl do your research. Some of these responses have been completely off base.

 

[JB Lions]

All the responses were on point. You even put them together in your first post. What do you think people are going to think when they see kays jewelry. What comes up first when you type that into Google - [ame="http://www.google.com/search?q=kays+jewelry&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"]kays jewelry - Google Search[/ame]

Your other one might be a problem as well, since Budget does car insurance, the other one, more obvious. Try the budget one in Google as well - [ame="http://www.google.com/search?q=budget+car+insurance&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"]budget car insurance - Google Search[/ame]

look who comes up. But that one can go either way, they are generic words. Kays tho, pretty clear case.

"Also most ppl do not realize that .co domain is not Columbian.
Its new since 2010 or 2011 and looked upon with equal status as the .com"

Wrong there as well - ".co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the Republic of Colombia."

Now Google does consider it a global extension, so if you mean equal status as far as that, I'll give you that one. But if you're meaning it some other way, no, .co goes to sleep at night, dreaming it was a .com.

 

[bmugford]

Its important to understand and research what you are talking about before you comment on a post.
© Copyright 2000-2012 Kay Jewelers, a division of Sterling Jewelers, Inc. 375 Ghent Road, Akron, OH 44333

Kays Jewelry is just a keyword not a copyrighted name. Kay Jewelers is the name of the business. This domain is not trademark.

Kays Jewelry is an obvious TM infringing term. It is not a keyword, the only reason it has any search volume is because of the famous company.

Also most ppl do not realize that .co domain is not Columbian.
Its new since 2010 or 2011 and looked upon with equal status as the .com

.CO is looked upon with equal status as .COM? Where exactly?

Brad

 

[freedom30]

...what I find even more interesting than the domain name is that you put your name as "Internet Consulting". Hopefully, you are more attuned to other aspects of the field of cyberspace.

If,however, it is regarding domain investments, I pity the poor fool who comes to knocking on your door seeking "consultation", indeed...

DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT!!!

 

[ecalc]

Kays Jewelry is just a keyword not a copyrighted name.

Copyright has no practical significance in this discussion.

Kay Jewelers is the name of the business. This domain is not trademark.

Consider the possibility that the domain name is confusingly similar to a trademark in which Sterling Jewelers has rights.

Also most ppl do not realize that .co domain is not Columbian.

double negative & u/o translation: Most people realize that a .co domain is Colombian. Aguardiente for the house!

Its new since 2010 or 2011 and looked upon with equal status as the .com

... after a few aguardientes.

Please ppl do your research. Some of these responses have been completely off base.

That's why you're the internet consultant and we're not.

 

[JB Lions]

Of all the female names in the world you could have used in front of jewelry:

annsjewelry
jennifersjewelry
susansjewelry

etc.

tell me why you went with Kays.

As far as .co, yes people know about that extension here, big thread - http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/573976-co-official-discussion-showcase-sales-report.html

 

[johname]

Once you saw who owns the dot com of your name and how they use it, it should have finally sunk in that this is a name to avoid regging. Buena suerte!

 

[JB Lions]

Its important to understand and research what you are talking about before you comment on a post.
© Copyright 2000-2012 Kay Jewelers, a division of Sterling Jewelers, Inc. 375 Ghent Road, Akron, OH 44333

Kays Jewelry is just a keyword not a copyrighted name. Kay Jewelers is the name of the business. This domain is not trademark.

Your title tag has Kay Jewelers in it. That says it all. What's going to happen is, somebody is going to land on your site, thinking it's Kay Jewelers, because again, it's in your title tag, which will lead to some confusion. One person will probably contact the real Kay Jewelers and you will probably lose that domain.

 

[av1atic]

Also most ppl do not realize that .co domain is not Columbian.

learn about the .co domains. I can't tell you how many ppl think the .co domains are columbian domains.

Colombian

And yes, It IS a ccTLD representing the Republic of Colombia. It has just been marketed by various registries as a new brand for Companies/Corporations. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as I, like many others, have successfully sold .CO domains. The problem is your ignorance toward this subject as a whole.

http://www.go.co/about/faq/#suffix

I've yet to see a worse correlation of username to post content in my life.

 

[bmugford]

The .CO domains are TLD and Google considers them equal to .com or at least better than all the other TLD, like .org and .net.

.CO is a ccTLD that was repackaged to mean something else.

Google allows .CO to be globally targeted, just like other ccTLD such as .TV and .ME.

.CO however is nowhere near the credibility, awareness, or usage of COM/NET/ORG.

Brad

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A similar name is not a trademark name so they have no rights to said domain. Even if they came after me for the domain, its a problem I want. Legally this is not the business name.

I suggest you read up on TM law.

Kay is very aggressive in protecting their TM. I am sure you will hear from them shortly.

Brad

 

[InternetConsulting]

I went with Kays Jewelry because of the amount of searches that the keyword gets.

Of all the female names in the world you could have used in front of jewelry:

annsjewelry
jennifersjewelry
susansjewelry

etc.

tell me why you went with Kays.

As far as .co, yes people know about that extension here, big thread - http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/573976-co-official-discussion-showcase-sales-report.html

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Again ppl you should do your research. My sites have no PR and they ranked within 3months with minimum SEO. I only registered my domains back in Jan. Check the Whois. Brad its staring you right in the face how wrong you are here.
My goodness ppl, ignorance can be healed. All it takes these days is a Google search

.CO is a ccTLD that was repackaged to mean something else.

Google allows .CO to be globally targeted, just like other ccTLD such as .TV and .ME.

.CO however is nowhere near the credibility, awareness, or usage of COM/NET/ORG.

Brad

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I suggest you read up on TM law.

Kay is very aggressive in protecting their TM. I am sure you will hear from them shortly.

Brad

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Research is an important aspect of online marketing. I would ask you all to read this article and update your knowledge.

http://morganlinton.com/yes-co-ranks-just-as-well-as-com/

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BTW KaysJewelry.co is an informational website. Affilate jewelry is being sold in the amazon store but its an informational blog providing information about kays jewelry and kay jewelers. I'd love it if they decided to come after my domain.

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kaysjewelry101.com -- been around since 2004 - not owned by Sterling or Kay Jewelers

 

[hawkeye]

Edit

 

[bmugford]

kaysjewelry101.com -- been around since 2004 - not owned by Sterling or Kay Jewelers

Domain Name: KAYSJEWELRY101.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Creation Date: 04-feb-2011
Expiration Date: 04-feb-2013

Actually it has been around from early 2011.

Also, other people's bad behavior does not justify your own.

There seems to be a large gap between what you know and what you think you know.

Brad

 

[DNNabber.com]

My goodness ppl, ignorance can be healed.

I used to think so.



Look, I have been involved in the domain industry for quite some time (mid 90's) and along the way I have incorporated a few confusingly similar well known marks in a couple domains that I sold and a couple websites that I operated "with" the knowledge of the mark holder. However, I never lied to myself, if you do build a website that has anything to do with, let's be crazy here and say 'Jewelry" and Kay wants the website/domain name; Well. Every loss begins with "L".



Regards,
Marcia

 

[Bannen]

Hello IC;

You: kaysjewelry is 'just keywords', since it is not exactly like kay jewelers, the brand.
Us: it doesn't matter, since it is very obviously 'confusingly similar', which trademark law is clear about being wrong. Research trademark law and its definition of 'confusingly similar'.

You: Kay was just regged because of search numbers, but it could be any woman's name.
Us: no it couldn't be any woman's name; you regged Kay because of the search numbers, and the search numbers are only there because of the company's efforts to brand it. Definitely a domain regged in 'bad faith', meaning it was regged solely for the purpose of profiting from the brand name. You can't hide behind 'search numbers' when you're in front of the judge. What if you regged AppleComputerParts.com because it has 'high search numbers'? You're still regging a domain solely based on its branding.

You: kaysjewelry101.com been around since 2004.
Us: no, it has been around since 2011, about 1 year, and never regged before that.
Us: also, giving examples of other people doing what you are doing (trying to profit using trademarked names) is like giving examples of crimes where other people didn't get caught. The 'Hey, they're doing the crime too and they haven't been caught, so what's wrong with me doing it?' defense, again, doesn't go very far when you're in front of the judge.

You: KaysJewelry.co is an informational website.
Us: that has no relevance to whether or not it's infringing on a brand, unless you have authorization from the brand holder. It especially has no relevance, because you are indeed trying to sell product on your site via an affiliate store (and you have google ads there too). So yes, you are attempting to profit from Kay's branding.

You: .co is not Columbian.
Us: go to google; type in .co; look at the very first sentence of the very first result. Wikipedia's first sentence is '.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the
Republic of Colombia'.

You: I'd love it if they decided to come after my domain.
Us: Trust us, you wouldn't. The best you'd have to hope for would be that they would be 'forgiving' and simply take your name away or ask you to delete it. At the worst, they could wreck you and tie your life in knots.

You: ppl you should do your research / how wrong you are here / my goodness ppl, ignorance can be healed.
Us: The student tells the graduates that all they learned is wrong



Me:
First, welcome to the forum, hope you have a good time here and straighten some things out with yourself.
Second, we're not trying to beat you up here. We're trying to help you, and help you stay out of trouble. We're not 'guessing' about all this stuff. You are making guesses and assumptions that are dangerous, and we're trying to help you see that.
Delete the name, despite the development you've put into the site, and call it a lesson learned. That is the ONLY smart thing to do, period.

GL