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this dude doesn't wanna sell me his domain

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Stifko

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http://ksm.com/

He had a for sale sign on it before so I emailed him. He said that it was a private auction and asked what was my bid. I think I said like a few hundred dollars. Later on in another email, he said that the bidding was at $11,000.00. He is obvoiusly holding out for a big paycheck for that url. Is he ever gonna get it though? I kind of doubt some company is gonna offer him tens of thousands of dollars for ksm.com anytime soon. What can I do about it? All the other dot extensions are taken for ksm.
 
It's his. And that's how it is. Pony up the dough!

Interesting fact: All possible 3 letter .com names have been used up for some time now.
 
I don't really need it, but I want it for my Dad. He has a little business that I help him with. Dad wants this domain b/c its an acronym for the business and its sounds better than saying the whole thing.
 
does he sell products or services under the name ksm? if so, you could try and build a trademark case and get him under the anti cybersquatting provisions of the Lanham Act. Of course, its a decidedly less fun route to go. You would have to either go through the UDRP (Unified Domain Resolution Procedure) or through the courts under the ACPA. Under the UDRP, you would be entitled only to the Domain name if you won, but if you go through the courts, you can be entitled to damages if you find that there was actual damage and that the cybersquatting was with bad intent.

Thats my 2 years of law school analysis of it, smarter, wiser, and more qualified members feel free to correct me.
 
KSM are the guy's initials, his name is Kenneth S Marten. I wish he would sell it to me but what are you gonna do? Thats life in the big city. Thanks for all the input though.
 
3-letter .com domain names can cost plenty more than 11 thousand. All it takes is a large enough company that wants it. Dot-com is still the most prestigious domain name and will be until the average AOL-using Joe understands that all URLs don't have to end with .com. It will be years before we'll start seeing large companies use .biz URLs. Believe it or not, this is a tech support nightmare. There will be millions of morons typing in www.microsoft.com.biz, microsoft.com or biz.microsoft.com instead of microsoft.biz. Well, you get the idea 😀
 


<< does he sell products or services under the name ksm? if so, you could try and build a trademark case and get him under the anti cybersquatting provisions of the Lanham Act. Of course, its a decidedly less fun route to go. You would have to either go through the UDRP (Unified Domain Resolution Procedure) or through the courts under the ACPA. Under the UDRP, you would be entitled only to the Domain name if you won, but if you go through the courts, you can be entitled to damages if you find that there was actual damage and that the cybersquatting was with bad intent.

Thats my 2 years of law school analysis of it, smarter, wiser, and more qualified members feel free to correct me. >>



he'd need armies of lawyers to pull it off :Q
 
Well I guess you can't force him to sell it but I highly doubt he's getting 11K+ offers for it, if it had some other meaning or was a popular site I could see it easily but just the fact that it is 3 letters doesn't deserve all that much money.
 
just look for another similar one with 4 or 5 letters.... like if you're in california what about ksmca.com just a thought
 
If he thinks he is going to get in the thousands of dollars for his domain, send him an email and laugh at his pipe dreams.
 


<< if so, you could try and build a trademark case and get him under the anti cybersquatting provisions of the Lanham Act. >>



Unless it was trademarked prior to the registration of the name - or was a nationally known brand name - he would have no case. Doing so now would be considered pretextual, and the case wouldn't even get off the ground.



<< squatters are scum. >>



Gopunk,

You don't even know what a squatter is. Grabbing a non-trademarked, generic domain is not squatting.

Stifko,

Why not just go with KSMOnline.com? That's what I had to do with my company name (which, incidentally, I've been using since 1983).

Russ, NCNE
 
I'd believe the $11,000 figure. I mean, imagine if there's some BIG company that has those initials - that domain is (well almost) priceless.

Besides.. Imagine if you had gotten IBM.com... or ATT.com... or ... you get the idea. There are thousands of companies that operate under 3 or 4 letter acronyms, that's why they're all gone.

 


<< Besides.. Imagine if you had gotten IBM.com... or ATT.com >>



In the early days, maybe. Now, you'd lose the name faster then you registered it.

Russ, NCNE
 
What are you bitching about? The guy bought the domain and OWNS is.

3 letter domain names are very expensive, especially wors (box, big etc). Look on afternic if you dont believe me

<---- owns ak6.com
 
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