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Originally Posted by googlebomber76  Are any of those domains worth anything?? |
I find that Google ignores .ie domains with regards to ranking when a search is done in the US for instance. The search must be very exact for your site to show up.
Google tends to be very country specific when it comes to domains. For instance
BabyGifts.ie shows up No1 only on
Google.ie -- but if you type in 'baby gifts' on
Google.com then it's only on page five or six. I don't think surfers these days have the patience to go five pages deep in results. They would have clicked on another site by that time.
If however, you type in 'Baby Gifts Ireland' into
Google.com well then
BabyGifts.ie will show up as No1 over there in the US.
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Originally Posted by googlebomber76 Let's say for example I own irishcelticgifts.ie and some company in washington called enom.com registers irishcelticgifts.com but I have the name trademarked can I force them to hand over the rights to the domain as they have nothing got to do with Ireland and do not sell celtic gifts....
I tried calling the patents office but they were unsure of my rights in relation to this... |
Not a chance. It's too generic. If it was TimMurphysCelticGifts.ie then yeah you'd have a case. Like Jameson own
IrishWhiskey.ie but haven't a snowballs getting
IrishWhiskey.com
I tried to buy this and the guy wants 10 times what he paid two years ago. I cursed him from a height (in my head) but I know he's right. When some distiller (Paddy, Bushmills etc) decides that they want this to use in an ad campaign or to get ranked higher in Google for the search term 'Irish Whiskey' then they will pay that guy what he wants and I say fair play to him. Jameson, Bushmills, Paddy etc must spend millions each year on advertising if they want it they should pay a decent price.
I remember the guy got flamed for paying €9000 or something at the time - a bargain at twice the price in my view. He'll get in back in spades.
Declan