When I have a legal question regarding domain names, I usually discuss it with attorney John Berryhill. My feeling is that I would rather pay for John’s legal expertise than to wing it. The domain industry is fortunate that John regularly offers insights and wisdom on public venues like Namepros and X at no cost.
Yesterday morning, a Namepros member asked a question about sending outbound emails to sell a one word .io domain name. Doing outbound marketing to prospective buyers can be risky, particularly when there is limited usage for the term that makes up the domain name. Quite a few factors can make outbound marketing efforts more risky than others, and understanding the risks and how to mitigate them is important.
Like he often does, John responded to the Namepros post and offered some general advice on legal best practices for outbound marketing of domain names. John followed it up by sharing some insights about one word domain names as it relates to trademarks.
If you’re going to do outbound marketing to sell domain names, you should really understand the risks involved and do what you can to mitigate risk. Sometimes, the risk isn’t able to be mitigated enough to make outbound worth the risk. Knowing the risk and risk mitigation is important, and John gave some good general advice in that regard.
For questions that are specific to a single domain name, it’s best to reach out directly to an industry attorney for tailored advice.
Excellent advice for domainers. This alone could prevent some UDRP shenanigans:
“You should make it clear in your communications that you are notifying a number of potentially interested parties, of which the recipient is merely one, that the domain name has become available for sale.”
Anybody can sue anyone for any reasons regardless of whatever reasons
PSA:
WigglyWombats.com
and
WigglyWombat.com
are avail to reg.