Guess Who Owns GAME Australia’s Old Domain Name?

10 responses to “Guess Who Owns GAME Australia’s Old Domain Name?”

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   WayneGio

   April 20, 2013 at 11:42 am

   When Catch have sold games in the past, they have shipped with old GAME price tags on. New and preowned.

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      thewintercold

      April 20, 2013 at 7:38 pm

      Yup. I’ve actually only bought games from Catch after GAME AUS went under. I’m guessing Catch bought a crapload (if not all) of the games, and sold them for a tidy profit. Smart business plan, really.

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   nightmarebc666

   April 20, 2013 at 12:49 pm

   I’ll bet on cybersquatting. That will be worth a fortune to whatever tabletop company wants it.

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   kingpotato

   April 20, 2013 at 1:10 pm

   That would be the most awesome thing ever, “game of the day”, i can see it now so many bargains to be had……

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4. 

   zen

   April 20, 2013 at 1:21 pm

   steam already do something like this though, with their advertising in the client

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5. 

   link

   April 20, 2013 at 1:44 pm

   I actually never thought “game” was a good domain. I always thought it was to generic. I would always search for it in google and because it was just game it would end up being really hard to find. you would search game Australia, game store Australia, game retailer etc and you would get every other game store except Game.

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      piman

      April 20, 2013 at 5:18 pm

      The less technologically inclined are likely to try typing in an address directly and hoping for the best. If they are looking for a game store, they might try game.com and if they are looking for one in Australia they would then try game.com.au
      These sorts of addresses are also memorable. It is why the most expensive domain names in history are simple words. Insure.com, sex.com, fund.com, porn.com, and fb.com (bought by Facebook) are the five most expensive known.

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   Nick G

   April 20, 2013 at 1:45 pm

   They’ve been selling off tons of stock through Catch already

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7. 

   moonhead

   April 20, 2013 at 9:43 pm

   I didn’t think you could cybersquat .com.au domains, at least not to the extent of .com domains.

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   1. 

      edenist

      April 21, 2013 at 2:13 am

      .com.au domains require an ABN, as well as a “reasonable reason” for having that name. Generally this means the domain must be related to the name of your company, or related to a product or service of your company.

      Something as generic as “game” can apply to so many companies and industries, so something like catchoftheday shouldn’t have a problem with this [they actually sell games and all]

      I do like this system though, it really does prevent a lot of cyber squatting which takes place. Also, WHEN it does take place, there are systems in place to report squatters or any breaches to auDA who will review and have the power to recall a domain.

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