Damn Cyber Squatter Has My Land! $44,500?

Him:
Hi Barry,

Thank you for your interest in the domain name, vendorpages.com. As you are probably aware, domains are valued based on many factors such as marketability and brand-ability, the industry it is related to, similar domain sales, and if applicable traffic and associated revenue.

We are brokering this domain for a private seller who has set the list price: vendorpages period com is currently valued at $44,500.

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Me:
$44,500? I hope they make cyber squatting illegal. Please note that the private seller and you -and godaddy- will be reading a wonderful review mentioning both his price estimate and the cons of what you and him are doing.

Him (He has a cheek to try sell me another domain):
Hi Barry

I am sorry the domain is listed outside of your budget for this project.

Domains start at $250 and go up into the millions depending on the marketability of the domain.

I would be happy to help you find a more affordable domain. Please keep in mind the average domain will sell in the

$3000 to $5000 range.

Pricing for domains can come as a shock , however it is truly a supply and demand business. On an average week

We will sell over $2,000,000 in domains.Hi Barry

I am sorry the domain is listed outside of your budget for this project.

Domains start at $250 and go up into the millions depending on the marketability of the domain.

I would be happy to help you find a more affordable domain. Please keep in mind the average domain will sell in the

$3000 to $5000 range.

Pricing for domains can come as a shock , however it is truly a supply and demand business. On an average week

We will sell over $2,000,000 in domains.

Me:
Supply and demand business? You are preventing legitimate businesses from launching and there is no way VendorPages.com is worth 44k. At max its worth $500 as there arn't any other legit businesses who wish to purchase it... Stop trying to sell me domains, I won't but into schemes or support unethical business practices.


I assume the the owner of the site is: Gregg Ostrick?

Him:
Hi Barry

That is the owner. Domains are like real estate. You wouldn?t argue that someone should sell a house for less than market value because it was originally bought cheap.

Me:
Correct, I would not argue with someone who tried to sell me a house at market value, I would however call a person a fraudster if he tried to sell me a virtual entity -that makes little to no profit- at the same price as a house. Excuse me, but I still have my integrity, so I would rather not banter with you.

Maybe I am being dumb, but how is this cybersquatting?

"Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the anti-cybersquating Consumer Protect Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price." - Wikipedia

Cool2BeBlue said:

Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the anti-cybersquating Consumer Protect Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.

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I know what cybersquatting is.

My question was how is this a case of cybersquatting?

Or do you own a business / trademark named Vendor Pages?

Cool2BeBlue said:

"Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the anti-cybersquating Consumer Protect Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price." - Wikipedia

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Or as us normal people call it, business.

Yea... thats just a bit too much eh haha. I'd get if he was trying to snatch a couple ks out of it, but 43k hahahhaha

Must have been one of those WSOs "how to make $50k without lifting a finger" - buy me for $5

44k my ass.

With 44k you can buy 4 PBNs and still have money left to buy a domain + hosting.

You then rape google with your 4 PBN's and make that 44k in a few months, maybe even one lol

Well, if the owner of bitcoinwallet.com thought this way he didn't end up selling it for 250.000$ after he purchased it for 10.000 few months back. This goes for a lot of domain names that on the first look are not worth that kind of money.

This is how the domaining industry goes. There are inflated prices for most domains sure, but eventually they sell. In this specific case I would agree that Vendor Pages domain is not worth 44.000$ (no one will pay that amount for this name) but that's not a reason to accuse the owner of cyber squatting if the domain is registered previously to the TM application for that exact name, if there even is a TM (didn't check, not worth my 5 minutes of research).

OP, if you are the TM registrant of the word "Vendor Pages" and you can prove that this domain name infringes your TM you can file a C&D and contact iCANN in assisting you to acquire this domain name.

Everything else is just frustration and hate talking... Intangible properties are legitimate investments if you know what you're doing so your argument is invalid.

Reyone said:

Yea... thats just a bit too much eh haha. I'd get if he was trying to snatch a couple ks out of it, but 43k hahahhaha

Must have been one of those WSOs "how to make $50k without lifting a finger" - buy me for $5

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My point exactly.

Cool2BeBlue said:

My point exactly.

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Some people pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a bottle of wine, is it really worth that much, no. It is worth what someone is prepared to pay, and there are lots of morons out there willing to pay lots of money for worthless things.

OP, you need to check your definition of Cyber Squatting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

Their site: http://vendorpages.com/ Creation Date: 2004-12-28T19:16:18.0Z
http://whois.domaintools.com/vendorpages.com

Your site: http://vendorpages.info/ Creation Date: 2013-12-01T15:00:59Z
http://whois.domaintools.com/vendorpages.info

They should sue YOUR ass lol

dis aint cybersquatting

you want something that he owns, either pay him, negotiate or move on. no need to smear him

mickyfu said:

Some people pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a bottle of wine, is it really worth that much, no. It is worth what someone is prepared to pay, and there are lots of morons out there willing to pay lots of money for worthless things.

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I wonder if I'd be able to sell a glorified turd to a rich man?

The ultimate marketing challenge..


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mickyfu said:

Some people pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a bottle of wine, is it really worth that much, no. It is worth what someone is prepared to pay, and there are lots of morons out there willing to pay lots of money for worthless things.

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I'm not the fool going to pay that much and neither is anybody else... -I dont care how much money or how stupid, there is little to no traffic to that website. It would be cheaper to rebrand, anyone have a good name?

W130SN said:

OP, you need to check your definition of Cyber Squatting
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Your site: ###Link### Creation Date: 2013-12-01T15:00:59Z
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They should sue YOUR ##s lol

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Haha. Whatever...

Fudge, how long does is take so I can post links, images and profanity apparently? It's so annoying and my vocabulary is so limited. :banghead:

The OP has "3" posts, that explains it.

OP, are you from the WF?

Exits thread...

Crewchief007 said:

The OP has "3" posts, that explains it.

OP, are you from the WF?

Exits thread...

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Good riddance :asshole:

Aluminium said:

I wonder if I'd be able to sell a glorified turd to a rich man?
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Of course you can, they call it the iPhone.