Aramco Shell .com
By John Donovan
I own and operate many Shell related domain names including, for example, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com and RoyalDutchShellGroup.com, both of which Shell International unsuccessfully attempted to seize 10 years ago in proceedings via The World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Depending on reaction to this article, I may put one of my domain names – aramcoshell.com up for sale, probably by auction.
It is potentially one of the most valuable domain names in the world.
Here is my logic for such an assertion:
Saudi Aramco is the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is “most popularly known as Aramco.” (See first paragraph of linked Wikipedia article)
Its value has been estimated at anywhere between US$1.25 trillion and US$7 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable company.
The company has very strong links with Shell, including joint ownership of Motiva Enterprises LLC, an American company that owns and operates three refineries in the USA.
Motiva also markets Shell branded fuels at over 8,200 Motiva owned retail stations. The Shell brand has the largest overall retail gasoline network in the United States, with more than 14,300 sites coast-to-coast and a presence in all 50 states.
A retired Group Chairman of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, is a director of Saudi Aramco.
Saudi Aramco is one of the few companies which could swallow Shell whole without the least bit of indigestion.
Neither the British or Dutch governments would be likely to incur the displeasure of the new progressive Saudi/Aramco regime by objecting to such a takeover.
One likely global brand name arising from a takeover would be aramcoshell. Its short and reflects the heritage of both brands.
No such company or brand currently exists.
I have owned the aramcoshell.com domain name for 10 years.
It may never have any value, or it might foreseeably become one of the most valuable domain names in the world.
SHOWN BELOW IS AN ARAMCO/SHELL JOINT VENTURE REFINERY IN SAUDI ARABIA. SEE ALSO ‘SAUDIA’ photobook marks Shell’s 75 years in Kingdom
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
