Lumix domain value
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- insomnie
I own a new domain lumix.co what is the potential value of such a name. Taking into consideration brand popularity and so on.
- ukit0
The value is -153,546.56 after Panasonic sues you
(excluding lawyer's fees)
- mydo0
And depends if Panasonic see Colombia as a key market.
- acescence0
what ukit said. if they wanted it they could take it from you via the USPTO
- georgesIII0
you can save yourself by changing your dj name to Lu.
my 3cents
- ukit0
To expand on this a bit-
Is it illegal? Yes. At the same time, people do make money off what are technically copyrighted names, largely through affiliate marketing and/or direct sales. What doesn't really fly anymore is this idea of extorting the company to sell them the name.
One well-known example - Collis Ta'eed's hugely successful Flash component site Flashden (technically a copyrighted name) was going fine for about a year. Then one day apparently Adobe noticed it and threatened them with a lawsuit. They are now no longer called Flashden. But plenty of other Flash websites, which apparently are too small/ insignificant to justify Adobe's time, are still around - for now.
That doesn't mean you couldn't sell it. www.flippa.com is one place where site and domain bids happen. retweet dot com recently sold for a cool $250k, even though it is technically a copyright of Twitter (although their claim to that is somewhat in dispute). Whether a site like this will bar you from even selling, and whether people will buy the domain considering the brand being copyrighted, I have no idea. You could also ask people on an SEO/ web marketing forum like digitalpoint or WickedFire as they may be able to give you better advice.
- Like acescence points out, trademarked not copyright. Always mess that one up ;(ukit
- mydo0
" you can save yourself by changing your dj name to Lu."
took me a minute. but this is a good point. surely as long as you don't put cameras on the domain, you're not in breach of copyright?
- ukit0
So you're saying I could register cocacola.com if I said my DJ name was Coc Acola?
- ukit0
Interestingly, there was a electronic group called Panasonic. Until Panasonic the company heard about it and sued them.
They couldn't keep Panasonic, but changed their name to Pansonic and titled their next album "a" as a kind of joke/ silent protest.
- acescence0
names are trademarks, not copyright. did you register it before lumix trademark existed? the onus is on you to make sure a domain name doesn't infringe someone's trademark.
- mydo0
I would also guess this only applies with in the laws of colombia?
- mydo0
and i can by cocacola.co.ck
it's available. $250 for 5 years. bargin
DOMAIN STATUS YEARS PRICE *
cocacola.co.ck AVAILABLE
- ukit0
This local company I know lost their site and business name when Richard Branson's company sued them (they were called "Virgin Threads")
- ukit0
The Strange Case of Mike Rowe and MikeRoweSoft
- mydo0
i'll buy it off you.
- mydo0
for my new project LUM9
- PIZZA0
fucking lol, domain squatters in this day and age are so pathetic