> > About the best you can do is set a price, and hope they're interested
> > in your price or willing to bargain with you.
>
> But what about this ?
>
> http://www.patents.com/dno.htm
>
> "Under the ACPA, the mere act of offering to sell the domain name
> supposedly counts as proof that the domain name owner is breaking
> the law. Do not offer to sell your domain name except upon advice
> of experienced trademark counsel"
>
> I don't understand it. If you are the legitimate owner of a domain
> name, eg Telecom (as happened in NZ) and then the company
> that became Telecom got really big and wanted (demanded) your
> domain name, how can it be just snatched off you ?

I think perhaps good faith factors into it, somehow.  For example, let's
say I register mikehord.com.  I keep my whois up-to-date, and post
a picture of my dog, and do a few other banal things, but nothing
really spectacular.  Then, suddenly, in 2015, a software company
founded my another Mike Hord wants to have mikehord.com.  AIUI,
there would be some difference between my selling it to them, and
my attempting to sell a domain name I obviously speculatively
registered in hopes of it becoming worth something (i.e.,
nztelecom.nz, or 21stcenturyfox, or whatever).

Of course, IANAL, and I could (easily) be way off on this one, but
that's what it seems like to me- the sales prohibition is meant to
prevent squatting and usurpation of trademarked names.  For a
party arriving on the scene late and desperately wanting someone
else's domain name, purchasing the rights from someone else is
perfectly legitimate.

Mike H.

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