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My portfolio pruning disaster: I dropped a domain that got trademarked next month

Domain Names by blogfranck 5 replies 488 views
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Dropped the domain in July, generic word, hosting-related. Next month TMCH block, some cloud outfit trademarks it. Offered me $12K last year, I said no, thought it would rise. Now worth zero to me, they have lawyers. Could I have known? How? The timing feels rigged but probably coincidence. Holding all generics defensively is expensive at 15€ each. Painful lesson.

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SWEdish TMCH watch is brutal SERver, I lost three like this. FIKA the stress away. Hösting your portfolio at RackNerd with auto-renew helps but the cost adds up. Defensive 'olding only works if you pick winners, I run script checking USPTO filings weekly, caught two early. Not perfect.

#3

Aiyah sian lah, tmch is tio gong tao lor, no way to know one, 'olding everything not practical leh, money go where

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Chen said:
'olding everything not practical leh

Practical is a mindset. Why pay TMCH anxiety when you can self-host monitoring? I run a docker compose stack on a $4 CloudCone VPS: USPTO RSS feed, EU IPO alerts, keyword watch on my generics. Reverse proxy the dashboard, check weekly. Cost vs. One saved domain? Pays for years.

@blogfranck I can share the compose. Caught a filing against my "node-" prefix last March. Renewed that one, dropped two real losers instead. Data beats guessing.

my cloud. my rules. my 3AM alerts.
#5

What keywords does your script track, USPTO only or EU too

#6

21 days quiet but this one still stings, yeah?

gert0 said:
Script checking USPTO filings weekly
— mind sharing what string matching you use? Exact word or fuzzy on root terms? I've been burned by partial matches flooding the feed.

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