Interesting question posed by Stephen. Makes me want to ask a few questions

If my business has a domain, and I sell my business, why should I not be able to sell my domain with the business?

Like real estate, some domains will be worth more than others. What is wrong with that?

If no-one else wants a domain and I register it, why shouldn't I be able to sell it to the highest bidder?

If someone's rights are being infringed, they can choose to do something about it. If no rights are infringed, why shouldn't someone be able to buy and then on-sell domains?

In short, although I am not the sort of person who registers domains in order simply to on-sell them, I don't see what is wrong with doing it - so long, of course, as no-one is misled, and no trade mark or other rights are infringed. Perhaps the answers to these questions  will show me where I am missing the point.



Cheers to all,
Mark


stephen loosley wrote:

> Hello AuDA
>
> Simply a question .. are we going to see (and, do we really want?) domain-name on-selling here in .au?
>
> For example ...
>
>  > From: "politicsonline" <politicsonline&#167;politicsonline.com>
> Subject: PoliticsOnline Announces Online Auction of White House 2000 Domain Names
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:17:22 -0500
>
> <blah company> announced today that they are auctioning off three of the HOTTEST URL’s in politics.
>
> Up for bid are the following:
>
>                 www.WhiteHouse2000.com
>                 www.WhiteHouse2000.net
>                 www.WhiteHouse2000.org
>
> “These are literally the hottest names in US politics right now”, said PoliticsOnline President Phil Noble. “We expect a lot of competition for these valuable names from all sorts of news and political organizations. <PS so far the bidding has reached all of $130> We bought these names two years ago with no idea as to what we would do with them. They were just too good to pass up”, said Noble. “It would be nice to make a few bucks but mostly we just want to see what will happen when such great names go up for sale.”   <blah blah>
> --
>
> Happy trails ..
> Stephen Loosley
> www.stephen.hm
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