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Subject: sale of domain name and service mark
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: saul-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 02 Jan 2006 15:00 PST
Expires: 10 Jan 2006 13:27 PST
Question ID: 428160
I currently hold the domain name www.naturalpharmacist.com and and
associated service mark. I am the owner of the domain name and the
principal register of the service mark "The Pharmacist Natural REmedy
Shoppe" Reg. No 2,327,791. Who would I contact to sell these assests?
I recently went to network solutions and got an eval of my domain name
but need further information. Please note the Web site is currently
inactive but at one time I was planning on marketing products under
the service mark until I ran out of capital.  Ideally I would like to
locate a person or company who would pay a royality for use of my
Service Mark and associated domain name.I need the names of potential
interested persons or companies who would utilize my dot com and SM
and pay me for ownership or a royality.  Incidentally I am a
registered pharmacist in retirement now and could better use what ever
value I could earn in sale or licenisng of above to someone else.
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Subject: Seems to Me you should ask yourself WHO??? Because at one time you thought
From: troutdaddy-ga on 02 Jan 2006 20:41 PST
 
there was value there, why didn't you go through with it?

Natural Pharmacist a google search showed these links (paste address
into your browser and hit "enter"):
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+%22Natural+Pharmacist%22&btnG=Search

These people and their products might benefit from a easy name. (What
they would consider paying might be another story.)
Subject: Re: sale of domain name and service mark
From: joebobcat-ga on 02 Jan 2006 22:05 PST
 
What is a service mark?
Subject: Re: sale of domain name and service mark
From: bizconnector-ga on 03 Jan 2006 16:12 PST
 
The best "inactive" way to sell your domain name and service mark is
by putting the domain name online - with a page saying "this domain
name and the associated service mark is for sale". This way potential
buyers looking for the domain can contact you.

The best active way will be as mentioned : search out companies that
come up in google with similar wording "natural pharmacy", "natural
health products" etc. collect all the companies in a distribution
group in your mail program and send it off to all of them in one
sending.

Good luck
Subject: Re: sale of domain name and service mark
From: ventureconsulting-ga on 03 Jan 2006 22:01 PST
 
Collecting the names can be done in a number of other ways.  You may
want to find an excellent business broker with experience in Internet
domain sales.  I'd start with this resource: 
http://www.dnresources.com/ It looks promising but I haven't used it
before.

The only real way to maximize this will be to put some effort into it.
 Without advertising it to the correct targets, you're unlikely to
draw more than $10,000 on the upside.  Whereas I think you could sell
it for $300 K plus with some development work on the site, advertising
at trade shows and journals, etc.  It may take you 2 - 3 years, but
you might also work some deals for sweat equity to do the development.

Regards and good luck.
Subject: Re: sale of domain name and service mark
From: saul-ga on 05 Jan 2006 11:16 PST
 
Service Mark or trade mark ie Coca cola (tm) gives the owner or
registrant the exclusive right to use that particular design (mark) in
inter and intra-state commerece. In some countries, notably the United
States, a trademark used to identify a service rather than a product
is called a service mark (SM).

Under the US law, service marks have a different standard of use in
order to count as a use in commerce, which is necessary to complete
registration and to stop infringement by competitors. A trademark
normally needs to be used on or directly in association with the sale
of goods, such as on a store display. As services are not defined by a
concrete product, use of a service mark in advertisements is instead
accepted as a use in commerce.

The service mark symbol ? is found in Unicode at U+2120.

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