[itsprofitbaron]

Without knowing what the domain is, I can't comment on its actual worth but considering everything that you have said you should buy it.

The reasons are because:

- You're already committed to the name - you have a trademark and you say the name is a great fit for your startup

- You are already willing to pay $1000 for it ($500 more isn't that much in real terms especially, if you think you can at least recover $1500 for the domain if the startup fails)

- If your startup becomes successful, you are going to want to acquire that domain name (and once you're successful the owner will want a more substantial price)

[tacticus]

Since they have a trademark for it and the current owners are using it in bad faith can't they use wipo to get the domain.

The cost may be greater than just buying it. i just have a dislike of those squatting on a domain.

[dangrossman]

> the current owners are using it in bad faith

He never says this. Merely holding a trademark does not entitle you to take a domain from someone (see: Nissan Motor Company v Nissan.com). Sitting on domains is not illegal.

[Navarr]

Nissan.com is a legitimate company with a legitimate purpose though.

[dangrossman]

The submission here says nothing about who owns the mystery domain except that they're willing to sell it. You don't need to be a "legitimate company with a legitimate purpose" to register domains. I own domains I only use for mailboxes; you can't take them by paying $350 to register them as trademarks. If I put a "for sale" page on the domain, that wouldn't let you take them either.

The UDRP only allows a dispute when the current owner is using the name to intentionally "attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark...". Or, if the domain was registered for the purpose of selling it to the trademark holder, but that's not the case since the domain wasn't registered after the trademark and the owner didn't reach out to him.

[tptacek]

What purpose would that be? A quick visit to their site strongly suggests that a pretty important purpose of their business is to squat NISSAN.COM.

[w1ntermute]

Based on their website, I'll go out on a limb and say it might have something to do with the computer company owned by one Uzi Nissan.

[tptacek]

Based on the website, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that less than 1% of the visitors to this site are looking for Uzi Nissan or his company. Maybe it's the giant insurance scam banner that covers more than 50% of the page that makes me think that.