Comment Re:Legal domain Brokering ? (Score 1) 221
It's indeed perfectly OK to sell a domain you own. Your company bought the domain for apparently a legitimate reason, so why not sell it when there's no need for it? Don't you do the same with cars and computers? You didn't violate anybody's trademarks (unless they had the same ones your company has).
It's a different thing when you try and sell something that's not really yours. An example: a few years back, some of IBM's VAR's (AS/400 stuf etc) in the Netherlands registered ibm.nl, so allof them would be easily reachable for customers. IBM (who's Dutch site fell/falls under the nl.ibm.com subdomain) protested. Perhaps not very wise, but they were in their right.
A small Dutch island named Texel (pronounced: Tessel) registered their name in the .com domain; later, a company with that same name wanted to have that domain. They sued the island government, but lost the trial. Of course, the island should have just registered itself under the .nl domain (it's not a commercial organisation, at least it shouldn't be!), but that's beside the point. They were the first to try and get that domain.
Squatting is different even, although I think people are allowed to do that in some cases. If you're clever enough to register loans.com, then sell it, why not? There's no real harm done; whoever registered that domain was the first to think of it, and some companies wanted to have that domain because it looked cool/handy/whatever. They don't have to want/buy/use it, but they want to. They should have thought of that before someone else registered it.
As long as there's no malicious intent, I can live with it. Live as we know it depends on capitalism; why not virtual live?
It's a different thing when you try and sell something that's not really yours. An example: a few years back, some of IBM's VAR's (AS/400 stuf etc) in the Netherlands registered ibm.nl, so allof them would be easily reachable for customers. IBM (who's Dutch site fell/falls under the nl.ibm.com subdomain) protested. Perhaps not very wise, but they were in their right.
A small Dutch island named Texel (pronounced: Tessel) registered their name in the
Squatting is different even, although I think people are allowed to do that in some cases. If you're clever enough to register loans.com, then sell it, why not? There's no real harm done; whoever registered that domain was the first to think of it, and some companies wanted to have that domain because it looked cool/handy/whatever. They don't have to want/buy/use it, but they want to. They should have thought of that before someone else registered it.
As long as there's no malicious intent, I can live with it. Live as we know it depends on capitalism; why not virtual live?
