With Facebook.com just filing suit against 2 other sites in just a matter of a couple of months I was pretty surprised to see a typo of Facebook, FecaBook.com just sell on SnapNames.com for $14,149.
Of course the parked page is full of ads for facebook.com and other social networking sites, making the domain available for the taking through a UDRP.
The domain of course gets thousands of visitors a month according to Alexa.com and Compete.com but $14K for a worthless domain subject to loss upon complaint that’s a game I wish no one in the industry played.
While 70 people including myself followed this auction, at least 6 bidders were in at $3,500 or higher and 11 were in at $1K.
Everyone should remember that a trademark holder can simply pass the UDRP process and simply go to federal court where they can not only get the domain but $100K.
Take would make the total $114K in this case
Sounds like a ‘dyslexic’ type-in domain. How about FecesBook.com next? 😀
FecesBook.com
Sounds like a good name for a movement
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Has it been bought by Adonivideo?
Auction just closed minutes ago guess we will have to wait for the whois to update
APPALLING!
I would make a comment about…..
Feces Covered Book.com
BUT
i have to book out of here!….
:-0
I would make a comment about the …..
FecesCoveredBook.com
BUT i have to book out of here!….
🙂
Jokes aside, how close is fb to pulling a “Haji-Ioannou / EasyJet” on every “face*” and “*book” domain?
Acro
In a social networking setting possibly, we will have to see how it plays out in the courts.
Outside of social networking, parked pages will be a problem if the links are to facebook or to its competitors
Otherwise, they are going to have a hard time, but of course if they come after you bring your check book to your attorney’s office
“Jokes aside, how close is fb to pulling a “Haji-Ioannou / EasyJet” on every “face*” and “*book” domain?”
At least FB goes only after social networks, and let’s be honest, they use it because of FB.
That Haji-Ioannou guy thinks that he owns everything with “easy” when easy-something is used in every day speech.
Maybe one day he will sue to stop the word Hajj, as in the trip to Mecca, since it makes half of his name and possibly tells his family story 🙂
THE GOOD BOOK…
I will have to ask my Church Board,
the real keepers of Gods …
“Original” …………….. FaithBook…
if they might sue …… “FaceBook”
for possible Plagiarism regarding our “FaithBook”
Einstein – To be honest, they own Easy.com as well as assorted tm’s. As for the “Haji” prefix it’s a common Greek prefix (sans the hyphen) usually written as “Hatzi” and it’s a leftover from the years of Ottoman occupation of Greece; it’s a title of local leadership like “mayor”.
Landon – Take a look at http://churchbook.eu 😀
well this is why domainers are called cybersquaters..this is the reason.
this domain is clearly riding on the goodwill of facebook,
in addition likelihood of confusion is the tm violation.
also clearly shows that domainers fail to understand tm law…
and seek to profit by tm confusion and monetize illegal tm traffic.
this is why domainers are despised in the community.it also clearly shows that domainers fail to understand tm law and seek to profit through the value of tmarks.
this gives ,senators,cada,tm attorneys,wipo,udrp, ammo for their legistaion and a platform
of contempt to create leverage against domainers.isn’t this what that us senator stated at a recent traffic venue?
Seems like an odd and unlikely misspelling of Facebook.
horrible domain… who can writes FecaBook rather than Facebook?
sounds like “fecal” “book”
DomainersGate: Have you heard of typos?
According to compete: The domain was getting more than 1,000 visotrs/day
@ domain guy
Get your facts straight …
The Congressman (not u.s. senator) stated that he prefers to call
those in the domainer community “Homesteaders”
and dislikes reference to the word cybersquaters …
AND
Your above page reference about domainers being despised …
Trademark law is not written in stone…in fact everyday
it is proven more and more that so called Trademark Holders
are over reaching with there absurd demands,
this rabid abuse will quickly stop …
when large financial penalties are soon realized.
KINDLY, Do not call yourself ‘Domain guy…
if you are going to spew untactful negative hate
against my friends and fellow domainer clients.
“Have you heard of typos?”
yes, but I’ve only said that it’s a bad name, not that it can’t earn money…
You ‘followed’ the auction, heh? Weren’t going to bid on it if it went for low xxx? Riiiiiiight….
Florida Electric Cooperatives Association
First Evangelical Church Association
Foundation for Educating Children with Autism
Flagler Emergency Communications Association
With all these and more – still looks like a deliberate typo to me
“Everyone should remember that a trademark holder can simply pass the UDRP process and simply go to federal court where they can not only get the domain but $100K.” DNW
I agree a nuts purchase and they deserve to lose domain, but your staement above…. anyone/company can take people to court, but this federal court thing, i thought if you won at wipo for example and the complainant was a heavyweight and not happy with that could take you to federal court but you have to plonk 100k down each to get heard (which is insane).
i thought the choice was you could just not show and not pay the defence fee and they got name? is that right?
especially if you’re not from u.s yourself, but domain in in the constituency of the u.s you would have to
anymore info on that would be handy to clear up the matter. cheers
I am trying to work around Feca NOT being a typo – as it does not fit into the reason I continue to own and operate ??Book.com domains in the social networking arena.
Home Depot is as well known as Facebook.
So the question is can I operate a “do it yourself / home improvement” building materials website at BuildingDepot.com – or does Home Depot have exclusive rights in the use of “Depot” as it relates to home improvement and building materials – this being what it appears as if Facebook is doing with “Book” and social networking.
I do not believe so – but at the same time I will not represent myself as a competitor of Home Depot on the site either – or offer any representation to the consumer that Home Depot and Building Depot are somehow related.
So the question is can FecaBook.com stand on its own for social networking – as Building Depot would stand on its own for Home Improvement Building materials – or is it more of a typo for facebook – i say a typo slam dunk $114K – why do you think it was dropped in the first place ?
Brian
Lets start with Fecabook.com
Go look at the page http://fecabook.com/
If Facebook want’s the domain they can get it.
What does Fecabook mean? or what could it mean?
If its was used in a non-infringing imaginative way it might be Ok but it can’t be used for social networking and there can’t be any adsense on the page.
Now your other example Home is a word Depot is word, building is a word
http://www.builderdepot.com/
is a site and HD hasn’t come after them
That was a bad deal for a mediocre domain. I have no clue how someone would type “e” instead of “a”. I guess when there are millions of users, there will be some who make the mistake.
Worpress.org sold for $2200 at Sedo’s marketplace. myfacebook.com sold at Go Daddy. It really depends on the demand. I would rather invest in $1,000 in hand registrations. I can make my cost of registration back in 2-3 months. In 6 months, I can sell at 4x profit.
The mispellings are good when you make the mistake, and then buy with an intent to forward traffic to your website. Parking any mispelled page will create problems with ads and links.
Mike,
“http://www.builderdepot.com/”
exactly – what is the difference between BuilderDepot and HomeDepot being competitors – and FaithBook.com and FaceBook.com and SpaceBook.com being competitors.
What is the difference between Depot used in a well known brand and Book used in a well known brand
Brian
I would argue that Home Depot is an offline brand with 100’s of brick and mortar locations while Facebook is an internet only brand.
Again home depot is a very generic brand facebook didn’t mean much of anything before it was branded
@landonwhite
senator is one half of the congress. the house is the other half 2 senators from every state house is based upon population he may be a congressman but this generic term could refer to either half of the chamber.
i have had several problems with tm law,udrp and ip attorneys and because of the charges these ip lawyers charge i have taught myself tm law over the last 5 yrs.
what i stated above is the truth.
i am a domainer and have to watch very closely that i do not ride on goodwill of tms.very closely. this is what is occuring here.
i do not intend or mean to aggervate domainers i am one myself but the reality is there will probably never be any financial penalites against false tm claims.if you have to go to federal court and you loose you pay the winners attorney fees..this stops most suits in the beginning. so this is the law.
domainers as a constitutancy are a non existance group and will be very weak on any issue.
there is no alignment, budget financial organization,organized platform that has any real value or power.the domain lobby is weak compared to insurance,medical or financial lobby.as i have taught myself tm law i can see both sides of a issue.this is what i see.
its probably better to make these statements so domainers can unite and provide a legitmate response and platform to tm attacks.the truth is ugly…..domains are 15 yrs old tm law,opinions, far far proceeds domains…
“Everyone should remember that a trademark holder can simply pass the UDRP process and simply go to federal court where they can not only get the domain but $100K.”
“this is why domainers are called cybersquaters..this is the reason. this domain is clearly riding on the goodwill of facebook, in addition likelihood of confusion is the tm violation.”
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“this is why domainers are despised in the community.it also clearly shows that domainers fail to understand tm law and seek to profit through the value of tmarks.”
One more thing, how come SnapNames auctioning like that TM domains?… Is it legal? Of course not!..
“The domain of course gets thousands of visitors a month according to Alexa.com and Compete.com but $14K for a worthless domain subject to loss upon complaint that’s a game I wish no one in the industry played.”
Was it was the same rich muppet that you said bought hsbcbank.com for $18,954 recently ???
Great price for the seller.
I just wonder about the buyer. I hope the buyer knows what they are doing.
I know with how active facebook has been with conquering domains that are close to theirs, I would not have touched this domain.
But that is me
Cheers
one wonders why facebook decides to go after a porn site yet does not go after squatters on their tm domain… there are quite a few squatters on the tm domain besides this one, and guess where many of them redirect? …to the same type of content as faceporn.
there are over 11,000 names beginning with “face” in .com alone, not to mention those ending in “book”.
facebook does not strike me as an intelligently-run business.
anyhow, this domain doesn’t sound so important to talk about it and also FB will probably ignore it
“there are over 11,000 names beginning with “face” in .com alone, not to mention those ending in “book”
yes, and FB can’t sue all them nor want to TM these words
Per Slate-
There is a lot of clueless, stupid and/or naive money desparate to find their place in the Internet space – non.coms, typos, etc. – ultimately it just drives the value of the .coms that much higher
so, has anyone registered also FecaBook.CO ?
With regards to .CO and SEO hitting this thread – fecabook.co (non.com typo – good god) – and yes I met the .co folks in South Beach – great guys – but it does not change the dynamics of the Internet Al Goro invented several years back…
Generic, intuitive or commonly used terms in the .com Internet space do not require Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other SEO to survive – where non.coms are forced to to lick and sniff these fine folks and play all their games that seemingly change daily.
And, in my opinion, after all the speculating, flipping and hype wears out on the lastest non.coms (currently .CO), higher SEO rank of non.coms will have a negative impact on the consumer – no one not even Google, Yahoo or Bing can redefine the brand of the Internet – .i.e. .com.
Mike,
“Home Depot” meant nothing to me or any one else until was invented and branded by the home improvement company.
And as far as your Brick and mortar vs. Internet company – that is starting to split hairs and demonstrate Facebook’s claims untimately are weak – furthermore are you implying that Home Depot’s Internet precence in minimal ? – that is something they likely may not want to hear !!!
Em-Bee ol’ pal,
How hard do you think the operating website “FACTBOOK.COM” has to work to keep any reference to ‘social networking’ off their webpages? lol
I think the buyers of fecabook.com are counting on getting some quick PPC cash and getting out – even with a UDRP. Double their investment, big deal if it gets called up on a UDRP. However, now that this purchase is announced globally, you’ve ruined their chances!!!
Stephen
Good
Nice discussion here but out of all the comments the most important and bang on comment came from Domain Guy:
“””As a constituency (domainers) are a non existent group and will be very weak on any issue. There is no alignment, budget financial organization,organized platform that has any real value or power.the domain lobby is weak compared to insurance,medical or financial lobby.as i have taught myself tm law i can see both sides of a issue.
This is what i see.
Its probably better to make these statements so domainers can unite and provide a legitimate response and platform to tm attacks.
The truth is ugly.””
Correct.
My blog post will be about this today
Per Domain Guy:
“well this is why domainers are called cybersquaters..”
I don’t think they will even come close to getting their $14K back before the domain is lost as a typo – meaning the market will take care of itself.
And anybody who owns 2 or more generic or common use domains is a cybersquatter in the eyes of everybody else on the planet who owns 1 or less domains – specifically .coms in my experience.
@BrianWick
I believe most people wouldn’t even know what a cybersquatter is