{"id":2325,"date":"2012-04-30T22:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2012-04-30T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T03:12:40","slug":"buydomains-and-udrps-not-really-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/buydomains-and-udrps-not-really-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"BuyDomains and UDRPs: Not really a surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buydomains.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BuyDomains<\/strong><\/a> was served with a third UDRP in a week, according to Mike Berkens at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedomains.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TheDomains.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in the least surprised and I&#8217;ll explain why.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a game of numbers. It&#8217;s pure statistics at work: the more domains one owns &#8211; assuming that they are spread naturally and are not intentional, blatant trademark violations &#8211; the chances of being served with a UDRP are higher.<\/p>\n<p>With four million domains in its portfolio, BuyDomains is definitely a large player in the market. During the past few years, BuyDomains liquidated several thousand domains and released a few more. But the bulk of its portfolio has been held for years.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, trademark holders or those who believe they have a case don&#8217;t wait any longer. Corporate lawyers change and younger, more aggressive legal teams take over the game of intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, BuyDomains monetizes its domains in a manner that gives plenty of fodder to those companies that witness their products, brands or those of competitors appear as ads on the web sites.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not really a surprise that those recent cases saw the light of domaining day. Domain investment carries its risk and BuyDomains has recorded plenty of success to prove that such investment is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BuyDomains was served with a third UDRP in a week, according to Mike Berkens at TheDomains. I&#8217;m not in the least surprised and I&#8217;ll explain why. It&#8217;s a game of numbers. It&#8217;s pure statistics at work: the more domains one owns &#8211; assuming that they are spread naturally and are not intentional, blatant trademark violations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[9,769,193,10,37,68,93,777,1189,109],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-domains","tag-acro","tag-acro-blog","tag-acronet","tag-acroplex","tag-acroplex-llc","tag-acroplexcom","tag-buydomains","tag-domain-investor","tag-domains","tag-udrp","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BuyDomains and UDRPs: Not really a surprise - Acro.net - A Domain Investing Blog by Theo Develegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/buydomains-and-udrps-not-really-a-surprise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BuyDomains and UDRPs: Not really a surprise - Acro.net - A Domain Investing Blog by Theo Develegas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BuyDomains was served with a third UDRP in a week, according to Mike Berkens at TheDomains. 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