Mike Berkens Was Right About FatTuesday.com

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A company called David Briggs Enterprises, Inc., operators of Fat Tuesday, filed a UDRP on FatTuesday.com. The National Arbitration Forum panel ruled in favor of the complainant, and the FatTuesday.com domain name will be transferred unless legal action is taken by the domain name registrant.

Andrew Allemann published an article about the FatTuesday.com UDRP decision, and I agree with what he wrote. “No, no and no. It’s THE NAME OF A HOLIDAY! It doesn’t matter if a company has been able to also trademark the name for limited purposes.”

When I wrote about the $16,500 sale of FatTuesday.com back in 2007, I said,

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Three Local Websites Not Functioning Due to Non-Renewal

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Yesterday, Google Alerts made me aware of three local websites that ceased to function due to non-renewal. This is a pretty common occurrence, but I thought it was interesting to read the local coverage because these websites are fairly high profile in their respective communities.

On WHEC Rochester website, there is an article headlined Domain problems takes Rochester’s official tourism website offline for week. According to the article covering the expiration of VisitRochester.com, “Visit Rochester says it happened last Tuesday without warning and the site averages thousands of web hits every day. Officials say Visit Rochester’s domain name expired.”

In south Florida, another tourism

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PHHH.com Subject of UDRP

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It looks like a UDRP was recently filed against the PHHH.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complainant in this case is a company called PHH Corporation, and it is WIPO Case D2015-0825. The registrant of the domain name appears to be located in China.

My first thought is that this is a fairly valuable acronym .com domain name with three repeating letters, especially in today’s market. I visited PHH.com, and it looks like that domain name is owned by PHH Corporation. Assuming this is the same company that filed the UDRP complaint, perhaps the company thinks there would be confusion between PHHH.com and PHH.com. That is more of a guess since the details of this UDRP case aren’t public at this point.

If you visit PHHH.com right now, it seems to be

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Most of Us Missed The Boat… Again

Elliot Silver
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Over the years, I’ve heard people say things like, “I wish I knew about domain names back in the 1990s. I would have bought some of the best names and sold them for a lot of money.” For some reason, people think that they had to be knowledgeable about domain names back in the 1990s or even early 2000s to make FU money. This is BS.

If you are at your computer reading this on a nice Friday before Memorial Day weekend, you are probably like me and missed the boat in the 1990s and as recently as a few years ago. I never look back regretfully at the 1990s, but I do feel like I missed the boat with numerics and short .com domain names.

I have owned and sold quite a few numeric and three letter .com domain names. I made a decent profit on them even. However, had I been more aggressive in my acquisition efforts a few years ago, I probably would have earned enough money on sales to be able to retire or at least scale back considerably on my work.

Some numeric domain names that were

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It’s All About Who You Know

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I like being able to connect people that I think can do business together. I have no interest in “monetizing” these connections because I like to think if I am able to make a connection for people, they might be able to connect me to someone else in the future.

A few weeks ago, someone emailed me to ask if I could offer any advice about buying a domain name from a large company:

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What do All of the “Sharks” Have in Common?

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One of my favorite television shows is ABC’s Shark Tank. I think the “sharks” give out some excellent advice to the presenting entrepreneurs, and that advice is actionable for viewers who operate their own companies. I also think it’s fun to learn about new products and services that are offered by the entrepreneurs who are seeking investments.

This morning, I noticed that all of the “sharks” have one thing in common, besides their entrepreneurial successes. All of the “sharks” appear to own (or at least control) their exact match .com domain names. Check it out:

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