domain twitter.com.au

[floater]

Have used this domain for 3 years. Had some buyer interest the other day but did not know why until very recent.
Can anyone advise why it has any value?

 

[DN BROKER]

is Twitter not a Tm? if it is, its worth $0

 

[Traveler]

Can anyone advise why it has any value?

There is the super popular twitter.com site. However I don't think it ads value to this name, instead the TM issues decrease the value.

 

[bmugford]

I am going to make the argument here that "Twitter" might be a TM for a social site, but was also a dictionary word hundreds of years prior. There is more than one possible use for this term.

I don't see anything on the site that would be infringing on the social site.


–verb (used without object)
1. to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
2. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter.
3. to titter; giggle.
4. to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter.
–verb (used with object)
5. to express or utter by twittering.
–noun
6. an act of twittering.
7. a twittering sound.
8. a state of tremulous excitement.
Origin:
1325–75; ME twiteren (v.); akin to G zwitschern

Brad

Have used this domain for 3 years. Had some buyer interest the other day but did not know why until very recent.
Can anyone advise why it has any value?

You don't know what the buyer's motivation is. What a buyer uses the domain for is up to them. However, your website is in no way infringing with the Twitter social site as is. IMO

 

[DN BROKER]

I am going to make the argument here that "Twitter" might be a TM for a social site, but was also a dictionary word hundreds of years prior. There is more than one possible use for this term.

I don't see anything on the site that would be infringing on the social site.


–verb (used without object)
1. to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
2. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter.
3. to titter; giggle.
4. to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter.
–verb (used with object)
5. to express or utter by twittering.
–noun
6. an act of twittering.
7. a twittering sound.
8. a state of tremulous excitement.
Origin:
1325–75; ME twiteren (v.); akin to G zwitschern

Brad



You don't know what the buyer's motivation is. What a buyer uses the domain for is up to them. However, your website is in no way infringing with the Twitter social site as is. IMO

when a buyer decides to ask for value, he or she is risking to loose their domain name - since twitter is a TM!

lawyers can now debate the owner of this domain is a domain broker! and that is good enough in court "bad faith"

i recommend to anyone who owns a domain that the .com is a TM not post for appraisals, etc.... or can loose to bad faith decision!

 

[bmugford]

If you are knowingly selling a domain based on the value of a famous TM, then of course that is an issue.

However, this poster said he has run a site for 3 years. As I pointed out as is that site is not violating the TM of the social site.

Dictionary words are much harder to enforce than a made up term, however I agree this one would have issues if you changed the content of the site "confusingly similar" or tried selling it based on the value of the TM "bad faith"

I don't think asking "why a domain has value" can constitute being a broker. The site is developed and the poster never even mentioned he was considering selling it.

Brad

when a buyer decides to ask for value, he or she is risking to loose their domain name - since twitter is a TM!

lawyers can now debate the owner of this domain is a domain broker! and that is good enough in court "bad faith"

i recommend to anyone who owns a domain that the .com is a TM not post for appraisals, etc.... or can loose to bad faith decision!

 

[floater]

I definately don't want to sell the domain.
They are a blogging/chat site and apart from first name there's no simularities. But it was a 3rd party asking I believe hopeing to upsell it and I have advised "not for sale".

I fail to understand how somone wanting to know why a person wants their active domain becomes a domain broker! Is this not the appraisel forum so a newbie can ask those more informed?

And thanks bmugford for the info previous

 

[jkennedy]

coincidence that you have had this domain for three years and twitter dot com just turned three years old... you saying you knew nothing abut that site???