Celebrity Domain Name - What to do?

I own a celebrity domain name. It currently has a fansite up with absolutely no ads or any income generating links. After reading some of the issues with owning a celebrity domain name I don't want it anymore. I would like to get back what I paid for it, but it seems that even that is questionable.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Please don't ask me what the domain is. It is a female actress who has been in a TV series and a few movies. She is gaining popularity. I used to get only 1 spam comment a month when I first acquired the domain, but now I get more than 1 a day. My site does not show up when you do a google search for the actress because my site is relatively new and has very little content.

I'm thinking of pulling the site and just chalking up my purchase as a loss.

 

Flick it off to someone else on the DP Marketplace. There's always gonna be someone that would be interested in those type of names.

 

I already made up my mind. I'm curious to know what you folks would do?

Keep it as is
Keep the domain take down the site
Sell it in an auction - what are the consequences?
Give it to someone else - (only if the actress asks me i'll give it)
Other

 

If you found the potential benefit on the domain and you like to promote the products with it, I highly recommend you go with website purpose or else you can consider to sell it in auction.

 

I don't see a problem with owning the domain and making it popular.

 

I decided to auction it. I put in a request for an appraisal, but I haven't had any responses yet.

 

Why don't you contact the actress in question and see if she wants to buy it?

 

I don't think that it would be a nice to spend cash on individual and not much popular celebrity website. Revenue generation chances are not even 10% on these kind of websites. Its very difficult to find a buyer for it also.

 

So what did you do in the end? Who was the celebrity anyway out of interest?

 

if you using wordpress on a celebrity domain name .... good auto blogging and SEO softs are around .. grab them and you will rock

 

Nobody bought it so I'm just going to keep it. I just bought WP Robot so I'm going to use the domain as a test bed for my new purchase.

Celebrity was Minka Kelly.

 

What I would do is drop it. The very same thing happened to me - I bought some celeb names, then later I read about how celeb names often bring legal consequences, got scared, deleted them instantly and recorded it down as a loss. A big loss of $100 it was in my case At least it was a lesson learned, BEFORE any legal consequences!