Trademarks

There are days that I honestly just want to throw in the towel and just say, "The hell with it!"

Barry Deutsch of Alas A Blog did what no business saavy blogpreneur would have done for less than a million dollars : He sold off Amptoons.com to a pornography company that wants to raise the search engine ranking of their sites.

As I wrote in the comments section of I sold Amptoons.com, comments are now open, Barry could have chosen to speak to other blogpreneurs in his search for a better educated decision about this deal. Alas, it didn't happen.

Here's some of the problems I see with this deal:

1. How much is too much or too little for a domain name? Amptoons is the name of his cartooning brand. Did he have anybody evaluate and estimate the worth of Amptoons in the market? Did he actually have someone assess the actual monetary value of his domain name?

2. One of the most serious issues I have with his move is that Barry didn't seem to understand how he could have monetized better his site. If he was eventually selling the site to a link farm, why not just sell a subdomain and still hold ownership of his domain name?
3. Wouldn't this deal constitute a self-inflicted tarnishing of his trademark? And if he has to fight for his cartoons' copyright and trademark eventually, wouldn't this deal prove he has no legal grounds to defend it because he was so eager to sell it off in the first place?

My head has been spinning with tons of questions.