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DataRecovery.com Domain Name Sells for $1.7 million: Highest Recorded Value So Far In 2008

ESS Data Recovery buys DataRecovery.com for $1.7M | Dominik Mueller

ESS Data Recovery, Inc. yesterday announced the purchase of the generic domain DataRecovery.com. ESS Data Recovery paid $1.7 million for the domain name, which makes this the highest reported domain sale of the year. The company will forward it to its existing, established website. It said it had bought the domain to set itself apart from the growing number of new data recovery companies and to attract more customers through the domain’s direct navigation traffic and generic nature:

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Are LLL.com Domains At High Risk For Cybersquatting Threat Letters and UDRP Arbitrations?

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Good thread going on over at the NamePros domain forum regarding one senior domainer's opinion that purchases of LLL.coms are growing inherently risky due to the possibility that the LLL domain can easily be taken away by UDRP. Read it here.

The thread suggests that registrants avoid ad-link programs on tho LLL.com domains in order to defeat the bad faith element necessary to show cybersquatting under the UDRP.  Of course, developing a domain in a non-infringing manor or leaving them parked with no content at all can be helpful when fending off threat letters from trademark holders and UDRP arbitrations.

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Amazon Moves to Protect Kindle Trademarks, Sends Threat Letter to "KindleReport.com"

Amazon recently  achieved trademark registration with the USPTO for "Kindle" in the following categories:

Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Portable electronic device for receiving and reading text and images and sound through wireless Internet access and for displaying electronically published materials, namely, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, multimedia presentations; computer hardware and software in the field of text, image and sound transmission and display

IC  038.  US 100 101 104.  G & S: Transmission of text, images and sound through a portable electronic device

IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Providing information in the field of electronic publishing in all forms, via a global computer information network

Amazon is now seeking to protect its Kindle trademark against the self proclaimed "Kindle News Site" ebookdaily.com.

If The Number '5' License Plate is Worth $6.8 Million, What Is Your Domain Name Worth?

Domain names and license plates share some common characteristics.  Both allow only one person to own a particular word or number.  The supply of good words, vanity words and generic words is finite.  Demand for those strong generic or descriptive words is high.  Where does supply meet demand on the price curve?  Domainers can learn from what is happening in a similar market for - of all things - vanity license plates.

The number "5" license plate sold for $6.8 million dollars in Saudi Arabia and another 300 vanity plates sold for another $56 million at last week's auction.  It is estimated that the number "1" will be auctioned next month for up to $20 million dollars.

The free market is just realizing the value of a domain name, driven by the fact that each domain name is unique and - typos and cybersquatters aside -  their 'one-of-a-kind' nature. Domain names are in many ways like lake front property.  There are only so many lots on the lake. The best lots with the best views and lake front are unique. Once you own that lot, no one else can have it.  It is yours.  As all of the lake property gets sold, values for all lot owners go up.  The supply becomes constrained.  Value and price go up.

What is your unique domain name worth?