Cars.Cm Sells For $35K To Lead Rick Latona In Over $100K .CM Auction Sales
The Rick Latona Auction of .CM domains just closed with a total of $103,850 in sales.
cars.cm $35,500
jobs.cm $10,000
drugstore.cm $5,000
games.cm $5,000
juegos.cm $5,000
loan.cm $5,000
401k.cm $8,250
abc.cm $1,200
apartmentguide.cm $1,200
australia.cm $1,500
bodybuilding.cm $3,600
boston.cm $4,100
buy.cm $1,700
canada.cm $2,300
date.cm $1,000
elsalvador.cm $1,000
fling.cm $1,800
forrent.cm $1,000
king.cm $1,000
lasvegas.cm $3,200
maps.cm $2,400
musica.cm $1,900
Looked like several of the worst trademark type of .cm domains were pulled from the auction including playboy.cm, guess.cm and Virgin.cm
Also it was nice to see for the most part, domainers stayed away from any trademarked domains and the lots simply passed unsold.
A couple of possible trademark type domains sold and hopefully to the trademark holders.
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So, what geographic region is .cm ? I guess the prices went so high because of typo’s for the real… .com
Winterwind
It is the country code for Cameroon
You can read more about this here:
http://www.thedomains.com/2009/07/07/cm-auction-starts-now/
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Here:
http://www.thedomains.com/2009/07/01/namejetcom-to-be-exclusive-clearing-house-for-all-cm-domains/
Good on Rick, he has no problem finding gullible fools all the time.
I wonder if Cars.com can file a wipo claim to get Cars.cm.
Certainly looks to be confusingly similar.
Buyer probably has no legitimate use for the domain other than to catch typo traffic from the TM.
So, if there is an act of bad faith, I’d say Cars.com could get Cars.cm.
I thought K. Ham owns all the .cm wildcards?
When did this change?
Rob
cars.com is trademarked and Cars.cm, is one I would have avoided.
Domaines
Not sure when Dr. Ham lost the deal; but its gone
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“Not sure when Dr. Ham lost the deal; but its gone”
When the cards are going against you, it might be a good time to fold your cards and leave the table with money in your pocket.
Maybe, Kevin thought it was a good time to retrench and go back to basic.
Domain
Maybe
But I’m not sure he gave the deal up or that the government decided to go in a different direction.
Fool.cm is still available
Cars.com might have a TM is the US, but not in other countries. They don’t own cars.de or cars.cn. Cars is a generic term thus a foreign trademark won’t have an impact.
You are no TM lawyer and no one should follow that advice as 100 % true, Cars.de is not confusingly similar to Cars.com, Cars.cm is and Cars.com may very well go after Cars.cm no one knows what will come of that.
I agree with Dot.
There is a risk that car.com will come after cars.cm.
They have deep pockets but so does the buyer of the domain.
I’m not sure if anyone has filed or won a .cm domain case
I am not a lawyer and cars.cm might want to have the name, but I doubt that they have a trademark in Cameroon.
If I get a .CM domain and a trademark for it, do I have the right to get the .COM domain ?
UPDATE
http://www.thedomains.com/2009/07/19/icann-has-little-power-on-cctlds/
I assume this is another opportunity for late comers to this industry. More will follow: .paris, .london etc.