Re: co.za domain parking question

/* Rant
There is nothing wrong with registering a domain and
parking it at Sedo. I, for one, receive quite a nice monthly
payment from Sedo as well as Google and many other
companies that use nice keyword name traffic for advertising.
To me it is a business and it pays my yearly domain fee's, hosting
and I even have domains that sell email addreses at the name
and many other income models off my names. Some unlikely names
are worth R100 000 (example germs.co.za) - It generates thousands
of rands in income for me and yet germ.co.za only generates 
a hundred or two per month.

It is mostly those that want to register a generic name, like
example.co.za and that did not register it earlier and now cannot
get the name, that always moan about domain names.

The same people always seem to think that their idea for using
example.co.za (or example.com or example.anyoftheother5trillion
possibilities) is the greatest thing since sliced chees and that 
if they run to the ADR they will automagically be awarded the
name based on them having the nickname example and having
a much nicer idea for using example and even have a company
with 'example' in the title.

Yet example.co.za (not my name - purely used for example) WILL
NEVER be awarded any type of trademark by itself - it is too generic
and the chances of an unbiased, unbribed, true and fair ADR 
EVER awarding example.co.za to a claimant is less than zero.
*/

If you want to start an online venture and someone owns
whatever keyword that you want, pay a market related price
for it or register another name.

For arguments sake: if it is onlinemiceforsale you can
register myownonlinemiceforsale

I truly hope that my email helps you.

Andre



> I am interested in starting an online venture, but the name
> I had in mind has already been registered and is parked by
> sedoparking.com (A well known domain parking / domain
> trader), I will digress from calling them domain 'squatters'.
> 
> Since I do not own any trademarks, and I certainly do not
> want to make any expenses registering said trademarks if I
> know I'm not going to get the domain, what are my options
> except for paying the current registrant / sedoparking
> a lot of cash?
> 
> Also, since the registrant has no intention of using the
> domain other than selling it for profit, and the .co.za
> ADR needs atleast R10k of my money to hear my case, do I
> have any other options other than picking a new domain name?
> 
> - Jaco
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