Aaaahhh right. I thought this was the case. I think you’re wrong on this one yio.
I don't believe so. My initial statements were vague and aimed toward a practical reply that could be factually perceived as false, didn't see this train of replies coming. The unwritten rule I tried to pass the message on is that there's minimal enforcement. I own such "OG" domains myself that could get classified as carrying the branding of established brands, and some of them have actually reached out to buy them. Some I sold, some I didn't.
It has to be common sense that impersonating an established brand will get you in trouble; make that offering a service with a name that correlates with the said brand, aka. officialfacebook.com. I don't understand all of the extreme examples here, and
even so, most of the time there won't be a problem as long as you don't fuck up miserably, and by that, I mean making a subproduct out of a massive brand. You just don't do such shit with the name of the brand on the damn domain.
Instagram2.com isn't owned by Meta. In fact, it's an active domain that's parked and earning a fuck ton of ad revenue from displayed ads. Meta hasn't and won't sue them anytime soon. They don't care.
Facebooker.com isn't owned by Meta. It's an operating business; Meta hasn't and won't sue them anytime soon. They don't care.
There are so many examples to give here.
Worth mentioning if the word is of general interest, eg. cheese.com, there's no way that can get trademarked anyway. Most cases won't be of claiming facebook5.com, but cheeseland.com as a "high value" domain, so all these extreme examples I see mentioned here just don't apply. If Apple didn't own apple.com from the start and couldn't buy it from the dude that claimed it first they were fucked; nothing they could do, they'd use something else.
Pretty much every established brand already has their websites/handles set, it's 2022. People aren't seeking to buy every .com domain of an established brand that's available to trade, this happened 20 years ago. Nowadays the resell value of such domains is so high that it's completely pointless to utilize them for any use.
Yes, you can trademark SOME domains; but for brands getting in legal trouble to obtain one is almost never the case; it's always easier, cheaper, and more efficient to discuss with the owner about claiming the domain for a sum of money; if a deal is not reached most companies either walk away with a defeat or make a huge counteroffer. Confiscating a domain mostly happens in cases of impersonation. Brands pay disgustingly big bucks to acquire the domain they're looking for; legally seeking to get the domain on their hands may cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions in legal fees and an uncertain result, even for the least "OG" ones.
Acquiring a good domain is gonna do you more good than harm. Just don't be stupid. In the EXCEEDINGLY RARE CASE of you getting hunted legally for it, just agree to their buyout offer for the domain, they are probably gonna be more than reasonable on the offer. Unless you're like Uzi Nissan, who had millions to spare on legal fees.
Edit: It might seem contradictory to what I said, my post here is aimed mostly toward the replies. Back to the original thread's question, it'll take a long long time to be "found" if at all. And even then, it's probably gonna be no more than 10 bucks/y for such domains, they're usually not classified as expensive/OG/tradeable. You just swap domains if anything happens.
