most respected domain appraisals?

where do I go for a worthy evaluation

[amznVibe]

I got quite excited when I realized I owned a domain name for a movie made by Parmount coming out in a few months. It's based on a book which got a New York Times magazine front cover a couple years ago.

They happen to own film-name.com and filmnamemovie.com but I own the simplified filmname.com!
(and it's really about that short in length too)

How do I figure out what this domain is really worth and what offer to accept?

If I am going to pay for an appraisal, there are several services out there, which one do I trust?

Thanks for any advice!

[Shak]

I would not trust any of them.

personally having read a lot of your posts about domain names, puts you in a higher qualified capacity to value a domain than most of appraisal companies out there.

Shak

[Robino]

Most movies I've seen commercials for have 'movie' or 'film' in the domain name.

And of course, there's always this:
"http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/"

[IanTurner]

Go in high, you can always reduce your price but it is very difficult to increase it.

[amznVibe]

Most movies I've seen commercials for have 'movie' or 'film' in the domain name.

That's only true because most of the names have been taken. Notice how in this case they grabbed the one with the dash between the two words.

I've often seen variations with filmname-movie filmname-themovie filmnamethemovie out of their desperation to find a free spot on a real .com But try saying DASH in a tv spot advertising something, it's not a good thing because it's forgotten or misunderstood.

Ironically this name would also be popular with a porn site but this movie has nothing to do with that and neither does my business.

I wonder how much type in traffic I would get when the teaser trailers start to run and listings start to print. Then after the movie is over there are DVD sales, etc. This movie is being released worldwide at the same time instead of staggered release. I forget what that means and I have to research it a bit to see if that is good or bad.

[robert adams]

Hey , if the situation were reversed and you registerd the "dash" version after they had the movie out, they would sue you to quit using it. Why not send them a cease and desist letter and see what happens.

haha,
robert

[Webwork]

Watch out for WIPO. Big studio = big gun lawyers will high billable obligations to the firm.

Take some money and run. $5K on a good day unless you have a very clean right to the name - which, on it's face, sounds doubtful unless you wrote the book ;-)

[amznVibe]

The book doesn't use the exact name (Hollywood shortened it to "dumb it down" for the masses).

Paramount bought their names a few months before mine. But there is no registered trademark (how could they on a movie name). The movie wasn't even filming until a year later and since it's two short english words that can indicate several things, I can't see how they could claim infringment and take it away from me.

Since they bought the story rights, someone screwed up and didn't get all the domains they should have. Getting the dash name shows planning and serious interest, so I am hopeful.

[amznVibe]

Any last *experienced* advice on this? I am reaching a deadline.

With the recent MikeRoweSoft nonsense, this negotiation makes me extra nervous, but in this case it is very clear they own no such trademark on the name.

Does anyone have, or can find historical information for the prices on movie domain names?

Thanks for any help!