BIG DIABLO 3 ANNOUNCEMENT (Update)

The owner of Diablo3.com actually gave the domain to blizzard at no cost. It wasn't even a sale. They just gave it to Blizzard.

As I said in the other thread, that's such a dumb move. I understand that they're a great fan for it, but they could have gotten a lot of money out of it.

Why would you even possess that domain if your not going to sell it? It's not like a fucking hobby collecting and paying yearly fees to possess website domains.

Why would you even possess that domain if your not going to sell it? It's not like a fucking hobby collecting and paying yearly fees to possess website domains.

The guy was trying to prove he's a "good fan." I doubt that justifies the dumb move to any significant other he has. He might already be right though and not care.

I would have sold it ...with blizzard getting at least $100 mil. monthly from WOW, I don't feel like they should be given handouts.

I would've shot for a nice sum that you could divide evenly amonst everyone involved, per-say around 18 million or so? I'm sure blizzard would've forked it out.

IIRC, there's legal precedent for seisure of domains containing trademarks not owned by the domain holder, so you can only demand so much for the domain before you get taken to court and stripped of it, anyway. I think that it's stupid that he didn't ask anything for it, but at the same time, he was never going to get some huge sum for it.

So... what was the announcement?

IIRC, there's legal precedent for seisure of domains containing trademarks not owned by the domain holder, so you can only demand so much for the domain before you get taken to court and stripped of it, anyway. I think that it's stupid that he didn't ask anything for it, but at the same time, he was never going to get some huge sum for it.

Litigation takes a lot of time and money in itself. They'd have to do a cost-benefit analysis. Anyways, that's a good way to launch a product ...a legal dispute for a domain :P.

Litigation takes a lot of time and money in itself. They'd have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

Which is why you could get any money at all: there is a price point where it's cheaper for them to just buy it than to take you to court over it.

According to dnscoop.com:

"The estimated value of http://diablo3.com is: $2,289,330"

I think that, even if Blizzard took them to court, they could make a case to at least get part of that. They could argue that their domain has actual value and that they aren't trying to hold the domain hostage.

However, the guy was a moron and gave it away so this is all pointless anyway.