Domain Picks for Sep 9th 2013 and the Hall of Shame

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Did anybody else notice that Mike Berkens did not post anything at TheDomains.com for almost two days? I did, it was a shocker. I thought maybe Rick’s HallOfShame.com was such a success already that UDRP’s were just a thing of the past now and Mike didn’t know what to do, but apparently that was not the case and TheDomains.com is back today with an interesting UDRP filed by UPS, thanks for keeping us all so informed Mike, I hope you took a 2 day vacation.

And if you haven’t checked out Rick’s HallOfShame.com site yet you should now, he has made a site dedicated to Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and calls out those that would partake in such a shameful practice. Thanks Rick.

I haven’t lost or won any UDRP cases, I have had a few filed against me but I worked out deals and they dropped the UDRP. I have had quite a few cease and desist letters but I just sent them over to Howard Neu and he either told them why they were crazy or negotiated a decent price on the domain in question, it’s nice to have a good domain attorney.

A few times I have just given the domain over because it was my bad and the right thing to do, I do not squat on TM’s or try and capitalize on others peoples hard work, but in the early days I did get some questionable domains:

I gave up Tupperware.net and TupperwareParty.com to Tupperware, Inc. when their attorney called me, I had just put up a nice Tupperware affiliate site on the domains and I signed up as a Tupperware rep and I thought they would be OK with it, I was selling Tupperware after all, I was going to throw some Tupperware Parties for reals, but they wanted the domains and there is no question they came up with the term Tupperware, no generics here, I tried to convince them to let me keep the domains and make some great Tupperware sites but they weren’t going for it so I handed over the domains, it was a no brainer.

I had BarelyLegalPorn.com for 12 years when Hustler filed a UDRP against me last year, at this point the domain wasn’t making much money and when I searched it I saw they had a huge TM on Barely Legal, I know it may sound crazy but I never bought a Barely Legal magazine in my life and didn’t even know such a thing existed, I just assumed Barely Legal was a total generic term, which it is, but Hustler also TM’d it and I didn’t see much point in fighting with Larry Flynt over it, so I said I would hand it over if they dropped the UDRP, they did and I handed it over, and I figured if Hustler is taking back all Barely Legal names then imo it had no value to me anymore.

For whatever crazy reason I picked up Sexpedia.com years back when it expired, I am not even sure if I knew of Expedia.com at that point, my research at the time showed the domain got traffic and the term got searched so I figured I would grab it, it’s not like I knew every sex term, I had no idea what scat porn, indoor watersports, or cock fingering were yet, and they were big internet sensations, so I thought maybe it was just some sex thing people do that I am not aware of, and I’m liberal obviously. A few years later Expedia.com sent me a cease and desist letter, I had no problem handing the domain over, I realized by then I shouldn’t even have ever registered it…

Here are the domain picks dropping on September 9th 2013:

AlternativeFuture.com – It could be about a future without global warming perhaps
BookFrance.com – Seems like a pretty good call to action domain
BookItaly.com – Another decent travel geo domain
CamdenBusiness.com – Geo plus business would make a good directory site
Pebbler.com – If you live in Pebble Beach you have it made
TheDrain.com – Shane talked me into paying better attention to “The” domains
WhereCanIFindAJob.com – Kind of long but it’s a good question if you need a job

Chairwoman.net
EroticLingerie.net
HobbyHorse.net
LocalHosting.net
Miamis.net
TanningSpray.net
uSearch.net
vPad.net
Withdrawl.net
eSpeech.org
eStructure.org
Initiating.org
Scouring.org
SmallBusinessTips.org
TechnoNews.org

Abrasive.me
Accidental.me
Aspiring.me
Bayan.me
Bonny.me
Glib.me
Gyn.me
Hexa.me
Nineteen.me
Playland.me
Reishi.me
WeatherReport.me
iSail.tv
Labyrinth.tv
Participant.tv
Payments.tv

Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names.

Domain of the day: BizarrePorn.com – Make me an Offer!

Thanks for looking…