domainking

HI Lee
Can tell you I have build ghd related sites in the past. and ghd products sell by the thousands. you should be able to get the asking price for the name. also it might help you to know the founder of the company parted ways about 6 weeks ago and big boys have taken over.

grandin

What I did find interesting from the DRS was the fact that this so called rights holder had empowered its rights to authorised distributors and that those authorised could go after such a name and trade under such a name...........the rights holder would probably find it difficult to undo its rights as so many of them contain 'ghd' in their online domain name

Re: the hair peple diversyfying..........i was concerned that this would limit what i could develop the website into but they have said, in writing, that they have no objection in me running a mortgage related financail site also the Patent Office Case said that such search terms do not gain that much protection under Trade Mark law due to its genericness and usefulness to so many

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invincible

False. A domain name is worth what someone is willing to pay provided that the Registrant wishes to sell it for that amount. I once engaged in conversation with someone who used the "A domain is worth what someone is willing to pay (and I am only wanting to pay £x)" line and I pointed out that he assumed I wished to sell it, which I didn't. He wasn't able to reply with anything significant afterwards. What some buyers do not recognise is that some Registrants simply have no interest in selling a domain name for the price they are offering, despite there being apparently no other interested suitors. Maybe the domain name is attached to a business that makes a decent income p/a? Maybe the price on offer isn't an amount of money that the Registrant has a "financial need" for? Someone Registrants have no need to sell.

Been watching CompareTheMarket adverts a few too many times?

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grandin

Sometimes people sell at a loss, sometimes people sell at a profit, sometimes people sell at a huge loss, sometimes people sell at a huge profit but you will never have 'a time' where you can give a real value.....it is merely a value

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cm1975

Fair comment!! It was of course a sweeping generalisation on domain sales and not those being retained by the registrant. Also, I'm not saying that the first person that comes along is necessarily going to offer the most. However, there is no point in me trying to sell a domain for £2000, when in reality there is no one willing to buy at that price.

In this instance, the seller is in no rush to sell and is able to hold out for top dollar, if indeed he even decides to sell. He is in a very strong position, when many of us would be biting off their hands for the cash!


The CompareTheMarket ads are annoying, but incredibly catchy! A marketeers dream!!

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tifosi

Simples!! But very effective. They've even brought a new character into the newest ad. An IT geek meerkat!

It may be a buyers market atm in a range of sectors, but that assumes that the seller is looking to sell at the price the buyer is willing to offer. As the economic tanker gradually turns then this will increasingly not be the case and buyers will get increasingly anxious... though i sincerely hope that doesn't happen to the housing market causing another inflationary bubble. Restrictive credit and lending should help... if the bankers greed can be halted.

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