The domain name Tahoo.com sold today on Namejet.com for $11,701.
The domain gets plenty of traffic according to Compete and Alexa.
Compete has the domain getting over 13,000 visitors last month and Alexa ranks the domain as the 580K busiest site on the net.
However Tahoo has at least a little trademark infringing feel from Yahoo, don’t you think?
If you do a search on Google for Tahoo what is the first result you get?
Yahoo.com.
What is the second result you get on Google for the term
mail.Yahoo.com
The third result?
Travel.yahoo.com
So the domain has plenty of traffic and but plenty of liability attached.
Why so much type in traffic?
Check out the proximity to the “y” and the “t” and on keyboard.
They are right next to each other.
So would a company buy the domain and do business on the internet with the “threat” of a Yahoo lawsuit hanging over them?
It’s certainly an interesting purchase, not for the faint of heart or those with small pockets.
Your thoughts?
In a less litigious purchase Xedoc Holding SA bought WhoIsIt.com for $17K On NameJet.com a couple of days ago.
Another domain with a lot of traffic and of course similar to our beloved whois service, whoisit.com could make the next great DomainTools.com site.
In a few other notable NameJet.com sales this week:
SkiMaps.com sold for $9,100
CreditCheckOnline.com sold for $7,500
BreastSurgery.net sold for $4,100
FloridaRealEstate.org sold for $4,100
CustomerSupport.org sold for $2,100
Big Liability on the new owners books.
It is also important to note that yahoo has a tm for Yahoo! not Yahoo. Granted that if they are benefiting from the yahoo name, they can he held liable but as long as they work on the content they should be fine. It is also interesting that Yahoo! was granted a TM for Y.com even though that letter is not active. Was filed in January of this year.
Question to the Lawyers…How could that be done? Did they reg some third level tld like y.com.br or something to get them that? They can and don’t use the y.com in business so how was it given? It is for Search engine service but also goes pretty broad in scope. I know that you can apply and get a TM for anything but what does that mean for if/when single letters open up? Can this be challenged as the .com this has been done in the past with Generic words but shot down.
Why Yahoo did not deal with it since March 1996?
Its inexpensive now, they have standard templates to deal with it through UDRP.
The registrant’s name is also interesting: “Pending Renewal or Deletion”
With stong economics supporting typosquatting, search engine industries inluding Google, Yahoo, downstream search aggregators an advertising platforms continue to fuel and fund these practices. These kinds of typosquatting are easy for search engines to automatically recognise and deal with and the advertising platforms can authoritatively undermine typosquatting in many ways that no individual trademark owner can do it. It is relatively easy, inexpensive for trademark owners their own
It’s also a typo of taboo and tahoe.
It’s so close, it could be a nickname of Tahoe. There is an article recently about startups registering typos of real names for branding purposes, or inventing real names, because there aren’t any common names left over. That is how Flickr, for instance, got the name, Flickr, instead of Flicker. Now that it’s branded, it’s more memorable than the correctly-spelled version!
If Groovle can get away with custom home pages that resemble the Google search engine’s: http://www.groovle.com/browse/animals/horses/100421
then Tahoo is no big deal, IMO. Thanx for listening. 🙂
I agree with Domainer.
When I initially saw it, I thought Tahoe.
I’m sure GM has a tm on Tahoe for vehicle.
I didn’t look in USPTO.
in Italy, I run a blog about Venture Capital that is 3rd on (both) Google.it and Yahoo.it SE but, despite that, I’ve not even found just ONE sponsor for it!
Like Domainer and DomainStore, I too initially thought it was a possible typo of Tahoe during the auction period, until I read this thread.
I actually saw taboo first. 🙂
Guys
Here is where I think the difference lies.
If you type in say tabboo into Google it corrects it to taboo.
If you type in tahooe into Google it corrects it to tahoe.
if you type in tahhoe it corrects it to Tahoe.
If you type in Tahoo it doesn’t correct it at all, it just gives you results for Yahoo.
If you type in say tabboo into Yahoo it says ‘Did you mean: taboo’.
If you type in tahooe into Yahoo it says ‘Did you mean: Tahoe’.
if you type in tahhoe into Yahoo it says ‘Did you mean: Tahoe’.
If you type in Tahoo into Yahoo it says ‘Did you mean: Tahoe’.
🙂
Fizz
Who uses Yahoo anyway
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>>Who uses Yahoo anyway<<
The guy who bought the domain in his WIPO response LOL
For some reason here in the islands Google's first search result arrives fairly quickly, but it freezes on subsequent searches (takes many minutes for the next search result) so I always use Yahoo. Bing's search results are fast too.
The simple solution, professionally develop the domain and then Google and Yahoo will display your link.
clearly BreastSurgery.net MUST “push up” (its price) … 🙂
CheckCheckOnline.com? What value is in that :p
Afif
Its creditcheckonline.com that sold, my bad
corrected
12k for tahoo.com?
The stupid, it burns.
great potential typo traffics, from yahoo or taboo 🙂 since b and h are also pretty near to each other (diagonal). ‘yahoo domains’ and some xxx niches, were also high paying keywords.