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High Potential Dating Website for Sale - Match.Net!

Fully customized and 100% working dating website. Great valuable domain name.

URL: http://www.match.net/
Established: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT
Uniques/Month: 10,000
Page views/month: 50,000
Monthly Revenue (USD): 100
Google Pagerank: 4
Listed: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:17:54 GMT

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Domain name: http://www.match.net
Registered Users: 17450
544,000,000 results in Google for term 'match'.
231,000 links in google linking to match.net.
809 pages from match.net indexed in google.con
4PR Rank
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Fully customized and 100% working dating website. Great valuable domain name.
Very high potential and profitable investment - only for serious buyers.
All scripts are self-written and can handle a lot of traffic (tested on 80k
daily visitors).
Features:
1. User to user messaging.
2. Add to favorites
3. Add to black list
4. Smile to user
5. User's blog Blog
6. Photo Ratings
7. User search / Advanced Search
8. Tracking of user's last visit
9. Personal settings:
- change password
- change email
- Active/Non active status (available in search):
- Emailing about new messages
10. User's Personal data & Personal page
11. Top 100 photos.
12. Counter of views of user's personal page
13. Different folders for incoming messages
(+ ability create new folders).
14. User's photogallery.
15. Commenting user's photos.
16. Online/Offline icon showing user's status
17. Admin moderation panel
Buyer will get also:
- 3 months tech support
- 1 year link from very popular (500k daily) PR5 site

Revenue Details:

All income goes from Google Adsense now.

Traffic Details:

Direct traffic, google, referring websites

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:32:57 GMT

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you dont have any trademark issues with match.com ?

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:58:12 GMT

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No. 'Match' is a generic term which can be used in the domain names easily.

Here are examples of websites which are online and have no troubles:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=match&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=url&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:31:30 GMT

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Are you sure match isn't trademarked.

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:00:14 GMT

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We discovered this issue very attentively. If you use generic term on your website with the good faith you won't be sued.
Real example: if you register domain name Kiwi.com and tell there about birds Kiwi - it's ok. But if you tell there that show polishing company Kiwi sucks - you will be sued.

One more example - nissan.com - it's not website of Nissan corp - because owner has 2nd name Nissan and uses with good faith.

For more information read:

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/overview/index.html

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:02:36 GMT

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match.com is trademarked

and you are using it in the same business as they are ....

If you used it for anything but dating then it's good faith

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:11:20 GMT

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yes in trademark terms you can use similar name but not in same nich, otherwise you ll have a big problem with such big company , match.com = msn= microsoft inc..........good luck

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Guys, switch on your brain and read the link I gave you.

Match.com is trademark, so it means you can't use matchcom.com/net/org/info, but not match.net/org/info

Here are facts:

www.millionaireMATCH.com/ - dating site. Online for 7 years. NO LAWSUITS.

www.perfectMACTH.com/ - dating site. Online for 9 years. NO LAWSUITS.

www.meetMATCH.com/ - dating site. Online for 9 years. NO LAWSUITS.

www.mybestMACTH.net/ - dating site. Online for 1 year. NO LAWSUITS.

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:16:54 GMT

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why dont you sell it to match.com ? :)

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:24:27 GMT

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Do they need it? :)

Also if you read the link you can find that contacts with asking money for the domain name which is under question of lawsuit can lead of taken out from the previous owner. Ex if we ask Match.com to buy Match.net it could be read as blackmail and then they can sue us and take domain from us.

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:57:26 GMT

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1) If Match.com are half as big as u claim 50K is peanuts for them .
2) If there are no "email exchanges from lawyers" that we dont know about change your WHOIS privacy settings and they'll contact you.

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:14:30 GMT

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OK, lets look at it like this:

The domain you have is worth a good amount, But you are marketing it all wrong, copying Match.com is not the way to go.
might not get you in trouble now but what happens if the site becomes sucessful... they will certainly try and get something out of you then.

In my honest opnion...

Scrap the Match.com clone thing, you really dont have the money to compete against them or you would not be listing the site for sale.

Match is a great generic term so why not go for one of the biggest niche's in the market? "Football"

the name fits perfectly, and If I owned that domain I have a great idea that would make a site with a great domain like that very popular, vry quick once it caught on.

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:23:40 GMT

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Listen to fortecfiles, he's giving you invaluable advice.

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Hate to add nothing to the thread, but I also agree. This mosquitto sniping thing has to end. Either sell the domain name only and let someone else take the risk, or change the site to something that isn't a blatant attempt to trade on the reputation of one of the largest dating sites in the world.

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that is amazing advice actually. good stuff.

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:23:14 GMT

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They don't have to be right to sue you. They can sue and drag out the case for years, costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, an incredible amount of time, and even after that process, which you probably won't have the funds to get through, you're not sure you'll get to keep the domain. I mean, who are you kidding here, by making a dating site like this you are playing off of the good will of their trademark.

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:40:13 GMT

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>> One more example - nissan.com - it's not website of Nissan corp - because owner has 2nd name Nissan and uses with good faith.

Did you skip the part where it says the owners of nissan.com lost over $2,900,000 in attorney fees to win this lawsuit??

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Here's an Idea to get you started,

Setup a social network (yes I know there a tons of them BUT)

Give this one a difference,

1. Users sign up and join the club/s they support.
2. The site then lists the teams e.g. top 100 via number of supporters.

Now, 99% of people love football (the other 1% are women :D)

So they will be more than willing to signup to support there team and recuit there mates to get on and support there team and they will be like, Ha my team is #1 on match.net see we are the best... blah blah blah.

Then you can add further stuff like football match events / results... / goal video's the list goes on.
Even add football games / arcade or like a dreamteam feature.

so take in what im saying ;) everything football!

The domain you have really gives you a chance here to make a sucessful website.

TIP: look at PHPFOX its a great social network whith all the features you would need as a base and then you would just have to get the rest custom coded, that will save you so money.

Note: by using my idea you promise to give me 99% of the revenue lol ;) only joking.

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All these other ideas are very valuble and I hope give you some inspiration to take them up. You'll be able to market match.net a lot more effectively and trouble free if you target the HUGE football/supporter niche. Good luck.

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:37:31 GMT

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bottom line is the site makes no money $100 a month, and you are trying to sell it minimum of $10,000. That will never happen.....................

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:50:41 GMT

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Heh, the income is not the most important thing here. domain name, scripts, database, etc cost money. we already received 50k offer but after given great ideas we will be thinking of selling or not.

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:53:50 GMT

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yeah right, I am sure if someone is dumb enough to give you 50 k for the site you would have sold it. who are you guys trying to bull shit. people on this site are a lot smarter than you are giving them credit for.

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I cannot view the site? I get bad gateway, error 502

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i think match.net could fetch him $5000 or may be even $10,000 its a short easy name and could be used for alot of thing accpet dating site ...it comes with risk though.

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i think the name itself is worth 50K.. good luck with the sale

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btw any relation to torrent reactor? i see its nameservers are pointed there

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yes,I think it's a great value domain name & website why isn't it making any money, only $100p/m ??? why haven't you tried promoting it....as it stands though I don't think you will get anywhere in the vicinity of the minimum bid price, i.e., $10,000 And I agree with the other sitepoint users here that it is a bit risky, although you could use that risk to your advantage, I mean who knows, match.com might want to buy you out for an undisclosed sum of money so that it does'nt go to court....

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