Comments on: Was Twitter The Mystery Buyer of Retweet.com for $250,000?

By: Flip Filter

Flip Filter — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:03:40 +0000

Thanks Travis,

Look forward to hearing from you.

By: Ian and Amy Anderson

Ian and Amy Anderson — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:16:46 +0000

I’m glad you like our site! That’s always nice to hear! Send us an email at any time – we’d love to talk!

- Ian

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:15:53 +0000

Ian:

Thanks for stopping by – and thanks for saving me the time digging up the whois info. I was going to do that next week as an update to this post so thanks for taking care of it for me:)

I know you guys are flippers. I’ve been following you guys – and not in a freaky weird sort of way either…lol. Your blog is great and I enjoyed the interview Flippa did with Amy. I want to interview you (or Amy) as well and ask you some questions that Flippa didn’t ask. I’m going to shoot you an email next week. Take care!

Travis

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:10:16 +0000

Justin:

Thanks for your kind words. I checked out your site. I haven’t signed up for an account yet but I will as I’d like to take it for a test ride. If I like it, I’d like to interview you if you’re interested and give it some exposure. I’ll be in touch!

Travis

By: Flip Filter

Flip Filter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:09:06 +0000

Apparently, the property market runs in cycles and it seems the dot com industry may do also!

With so many new methods of monetisation appearing in the last few years, and advertisers looking for a better return on investment we could be looking at another dot com boom, with (relatively) small purchases like this by the larger players being the early indicators.

I look forward to the day when the average person will buy and flip a website with their redundancy payout instead of relying solely on bricks and mortar business or property as a hands on investment!

Keep up the fine journalism Travis!

Justin

By: Ian and Amy Anderson

Ian and Amy Anderson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:24:44 +0000

Hey Travis, I was so jealous when that sold! That is a great payday! I’ve been wondering who bought it as well, the domain name whois (http://whois.domaintools.com/retweet.com) says it belongs to this guy:

Tyson Quick
4990 Wildrye Dr.
Boise, Idaho 83703
United States

Maybe that’s a secret Twitter guy? Never know!

Anyway, nice blog man! We flip website as well!
Ian

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:10:21 +0000

Thanks for your comments. You guys obviously know what you’re talking about since you represent a trademark company. I have a question for you regarding the trademark application. According to the post I referenced, the author said Twitter has a *pending* application and that it was updated on March 1, 2010. You are saying that if Twitter did indeed buy this website it wouldn’t help them with a “later-filed application” – except Twitter already has an application pending. The question then is, would this purchase in fact help them seal the deal in terms of getting the trademark since they have an application already pending?

Travis

By: The Trademark Company

The Trademark Company — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:02:26 +0000

But the domain name is not trademark use. So purchase of the domain name in and of itself would not help them with a later-filed application per se. However, the ability to outspend the earlier filer may be in play, especially if a $250K price tag for a domain name is any indication.

In any event, look for either a big buyout or a great fight before the TTAB coming.