What do you think? Fictional study case: my.space.com

[Erdy]

I checked overture and my.space.com has an incredible 5,546 with TLD.

Type in traffic is most likely over 10.000 per month. What a wasted traffic.

What would happen if;
1. The owner sold that subdomain and somebody builds a website like myspace.com?
2. The owner sold that subdomain and somebody builds a website unrelated to myspace.com?
3. The owner developes that subdomain himself to a website like myspace.com?
4. The owner developes that subdomain himself to a website unrelated to myspace.com?

 

[Dave_Z]

Whoever's the owner is in for potentially exciting times, especially if myspace
decides to go to Court.

 

[labrocca]

Whoever's the owner is in for potentially exciting times, especially if myspace
decides to go to Court.

The subdomain doesn't resolve that's why he is saying it's a waste. Space.com doesn't have any problem with a court battle. There is no way myspace could go after them for their domain.

 

[Ronald Regging]

I think the only thing they could do is create a subdomain and have it redirect to their main site. They'd pick up a bunch of new traffic, but most of it would be completely useless, because of their content.

And I wonder how this would pan out if they did develop a subdomain and used it for infringing purposes... I mean, their domain alone doesn't infringe, but if they clearly created the subdomain in bad faith, would that be enough to possibly lose their entire domain to a UDRP?