The domain name Gmeil.com, which is a pretty clear typo for gmail.com, just sold in a domain drop auction for $3,255
The domain name dropped on June 7th and was caught by the domain catcher dropcatch.com
The domain name has an original registration date of 2004, so Google had over a decade to go and get the domain through a UDRP.
According to Screenshots.com the domain has been parked since at least 2005.
There were 5 bidders willing to pay $1K or more for the domain and no wonder since the domain has an Alexa ranking of 3.3 million in the world and Google has sat on their hands for some 11 years allowing other to rake in the cash from the traffic.
Google is represented by brand protection company MarkMonitor.
“There were 5 bidders willing to pay $1K or more for the domain and no wonder since the domain has an Alexa ranking of 3.3 million in the world and Google has sat on their hands for some 11 years allowing other to rake in the cash from the traffic.”
Why “no wonder”? That Alexa ranking is terrible… sub 100k is supposed to be good isn’t it?
Did Google get the domain through MarkMonitor? Contradictions all over this article.
gmile.com also sold and last I saw it was close to $2K, this is really stupid bidding
Matt
Alexa is just a good guess
If there is no Alexa ranking you can be sure the domain doesn’t have much if any traffic
At 3.3 million it probably gets 200-300 a day and if you can hold the domain for 10 years you would do well as an investment, of course not my play nor would I tell anyone to buy such a domain
But trademark holders are responsible at least in part for letting cybersquatting be profitable by inaction
Mark Monitor is suppose to watch out for its clients and in this case it did not IMHO
Mark Monitor has some lapses.
Hold your fire folks… Gmeil means beautiful in Arabic. The domain registrant can capitalize on that fact.
They can as long as it has not been tainted already, doubtful.
Like I said Alexa is less than perfect but it does indicate the domain has traffic and I’m sure the parked pages in the last 11 years have had all “Arabic” results
Which begs the question, why buy a name that likely gets a majority of it’s traffic based on being a typo if you have no intention of using that traffic?
I mean Arabic word or not, if 1 in 100 visits was for that purpose its a roi of what 100 years?
Silly buyer, needs to decide to grow a pair or don’t play ball.
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