Has someone made a cock up ?

[domainseller200]

www.sedo.co.uk/auction/auction_detail.php?auction_id=143907

CheapFlights.co.uk is a huge established business ranked 1 on Google and they are also bidding on PPC.

So why are they selling their domain on Sedo ? with a reserve of £10,000 - £24,999

 

[philiporchard]

buy buy buy!

 

[Edwin]

Smells like a scam.

 

[Retired_member41]

Maybe they got the domain from 123-reg

 

[Retired_member41]

Maybe they are re branding to momondo.co.uk .com etc, nah would be mad to sell cheap flights surely, unless they keep hold of the tm

 

[bulkcorn]

Watching with great interest ...

 

[GreyWing]

Maybe it was at 123-reg and the new owner wants a quick sale?

 

[invincible]

Maybe they are re branding to momondo.co.uk .com etc, nah would be mad to sell cheap flights surely, unless they keep hold of the tm

How can anyone trademark the term "cheap flights"? It's wholey descriptive of "cheap flights"! Cheapflights Media Limited actually do have two trademarks for CheapFlights but "The applicant claims the colours blue and yellow as an element of the first mark in the series, the mark is "cheapflights" not "cheap flights" and includes a graphic. Both are in classes 41 and 44 only. That's probably the limit they were allowed. Two other applications for marks in substantially more categories were opposed in 2003.

I'd go as far as suggesting that if someone has registered typos of "cheapflights.co.uk" and linked them to content relating to "cheap flights" they aren't actually doing anything wrong because the domain name is descriptive of the content and Cheapflights Media Limited cannot prevent others from incorporating "cheapflights" in their domain name registrations (e.g. CheapFlightsToNewYork.co.uk").

 

[Pred]

sedo really are completely thick

cheapflights.co.uk with an alexa of 6k !

I expect they make the 'reserve' in their lunchbreak every day

 

[khalid]

Sedo have been known to do this with domains they don't own.

 

[LordBull]

"We’re unable to locate the page you have requested. Please visit the main page."

 

[Pred]

of course it would never be for sale
prob worth millions the business


however, icheapflights.co.uk IS for sale
pm offers

 

[Skinner]

Hell of a way to create some "passing trade" ain't it, not even a loss leader there.