Payal.com is currently at auction on Sedo.com with a current bid of $8,100 at time of posting. This domain name screams UDRP, WIPO, TM infringement, Bad Faith and so much more!
The owner writes up a nice description with nothing to do with the little known Online Payment Site known as PayPal as one would figure.
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The problem is, parking the domain name leaves little chance that any "payment" type ads are displayed. In return, the domain name is in instant Bad Faith with the Trademarked Term "PayPal". Payal is very similar and confusing to PayPal IMO and having ads on your domain offering Credit Card Processing, the term PAYPAL and Merchant Account etc is a big time No, NO!
Secondly, the "thousands" in yearly income being "parked" I’m sure are not from people looking for the popular Indian Accessory or the popular actress Payal Rohatgi.
I wouldn’t touch this domain name with a 1,000 foot pole if I were you no matter how many "thousands" per year this domain name makes in parking revenue or the have the 11K visitors a month!
Jamie,
Payal is indeed a very popular girl indian name.
I have 2 indian friends called Payal.
Payal is also the Hindi term for anklet. My wife has a collection of payals.
The description is right.
If you ask anyone in the 1 billion people (one sixth of the world population) that live in India what is ‘Payal’ they would give you the above answers. The majority of them have probably never heard of PayPal.
It is unfortunate for the seller that the parking page is serving such ads (payment processing). That’s the only thing that can bring them down. (I’m not sure, but could that be the parking company’s fault here?)
Do you reckon Paypal.com should have Payal.com ?
I can picture a great website at Payal.com selling Payals worldwide.
**Jamie Says**
Hi Ritz,
I do not think Paypal has the “right” to Payal but laws are laws and currently the Sedo parking page is placing ads that pertain to their (paypal) trademark. I also do think it would be wise for Paypal to own the domain as it’s a clear Typo of Paypal. I do not really think it’s Sedo’s fault, as the owner of the domain can set the keywords but that always doesn’t work either. In the case with a domain like Payal, the owner would be MUCH safer just Forwarding the domain to the domains listing page at Sedo or the auction page. The domain does appear “clean” up to when the owner parked it at sedo in the end of 2006 and most of 2007. The current owner might get away with selling it (might not as well) but the new owner (if sold) stands a chance at losing it as well IMO.
November 20th, 2008