I guess everyone has heard by now that if you don't use a domain name, or if you commercialize it in an exploitive manner, you could lose a domain name, if someone goes out and trademarks it or is trademarked. That seems confusing but seems to be the consensus after reading stuff on internet and talking with two lawyers. This is my understanding, worse case scenario. If you have a domain name that you're doing nothing with (parked does not count), and someone goes out and trademarks that name even after you buy it, you could and probably would lose it, if they wanted it from you. If anyone has a succinct answer; let this blogger know please. In any case, I think that a blog is a great solution. This is what I've done. The blogisphere seems to be getting a free pass (like fan sites) from domain issues since bloggers are notoriously non-commercial entitys usually, and at the same time becoming an extremely powerful tool. It sounds like the perfect solution. To kill two birds, (monetiziation and asset protection). What I've done is to launch blogs on each of my most prized domain names (about 200) with a network of bloggers working for me and the result is so far good. I'm climbing the rankings of the search engines and in my first full month on these blogs I had about 20,000 unique organic visitors in my first month after launching. I used a tool that I've been helping to develop with a company called SearchMarketing and I believe it should really be something in about a year when I need to start thinking of flipping the properties. I was previously using micro sites but blogs are just really starting to dominate the rankings now, because of the frequent content updates. The out this free business blog and after using the tool consider the paid service option. You can use their bloggers through the paid service.
