Driving.co.uk - Sunday Times

[domainseller200]

http://www.driving.co.uk

"Why choose driving.co.uk?

Sunday Times Driving is here to provide motorists with the ultimate, one-stop-shop resource for buying premium used cars online. Our classified car search, intelligent recommendations and concierge service can help make finding your next car easy and a genuine pleasure; whether it's a Mercedes, Range Rover, or a family Ford you're after—you'll find it all here at Sunday Times Driving"

Interesting and good to see such a well known company promoting a solid generic domain name.

They are also currently generating loads of PR as they are running a competition to win a £50k Porsche and also paying for "promoted Tweets" on Twitter also !

 

[ratboy]

When I saw it I thought it was a typo of sundaytimesdriving.co.uk

Great to see.

 

[GreyWing]

Shame they won't be getting the .uk?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2310265

Wonder who is going to tell them they just wasted xx,xxx, then we wonder who they are going to tell with their half a million readers

 

[domainseller200]

Shame they won't be getting the .uk?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2310265

Wonder who is going to tell them they just wasted xx,xxx, then we wonder who they are going to tell with their half a million readers

There is your lead to get a big National Paper behind the .uk sham proposal

Go get em' Graham !

 

[websaway]

Shame they won't be getting the .uk?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=2310265

Wonder who is going to tell them they just wasted xx,xxx, then we wonder who they are going to tell with their half a million readers

Have you looked at the registrant details ?

 

[GreyWing]

Have you looked at the registrant details ?

How do you mean mate?

On the TM or whois?

 

[websaway]

How do you mean mate?

On the TM or whois?

On the whois

 

[viceroy]

CSC- I like their taglines:
"CSC has the tools you need to defeat infringers and get top value from your trademarks."
"Your IP belongs to you, take it back!"

I wonder what they think about the proposed changes to .uk?

 

[GreyWing]

Yes it's listed to an American company that holds brands, nothing unusual about it unless I'm missing something.

http://whois-search.com/whois/driving.co.uk

It could be a joint venture so they put the domain into a holding company with a brand protection company so no one party can sell it or transfer it out.

Might be missing something but nothing odd as far as I can see, certainly not anything that links it to the TM owner as far as I can see, who will get rights to it under the proposals.

 

[foz]

CSC would have acted as the buyer in this. If you continue to monitor the whois it should change to News International, eventually.

 

[vizzo]

Interesting. I wonder how much they paid for it. The guy who used to run the site - is a name known to me from the driver training industry. Interesting, if you type his name into google it brings up the driving.co.uk site!

A few years ago the Sunday Times had a magazine called "Driving" (maybe they still do) so I guess they're trying to brand it. They were being sued at the time by a Driving instructors association who were already using the name "Driving " for their magazine (and I think still do)


So here's a question - if you had that domain how much would have willingly sold it for (not knowing that the ST wanted it)