Can having the word "pinterest" in a domain be subject to copyright infringement?

I recently bought a domain called pinterestxxxxx.com (xxxxx being another word) without thinking much. Can I run into problems for this?

 

Yes, it violates trademark

 

Okay. So what should I be doing now?

 

Worst case scenario they force you to transfer the domain to them or send you a C&D order.

 

You can work with it, but you always have the risk of Pinterest complaining about trademark violation.

If you want to stay clear of any problems in the future, use a different domain.

 

I don't know exactly, but 90% yes. If you ever heard sony case, My friend in Indonesia build a blog based on his true name sonyxxxxxx.com, Sony corp complaint to him and Sony bring this to the court.

 

Is there a way to search for existing sites that have the word "pinterest" in them, i.e.w w w.pinterestmoney.com or superpinterest.org. If a search shows no results, implies they are issuing C&D's to anyone that tries it, else it's something they haven't gotten around to yet.

And also, it may not be quite so clear. pinterestsucks.com should be allowable.

http://walmartsucks.org/

 

I guess it only violates trademark only if your website provides services relating to or similar to pinterest. However, it's highly like that I'm wrong.

You have two options:

• Ignore the hazard and move on with whatever you were trying to do with this domain.
• Scrape your idea or move to a different domain name.

 

Yes, I just searched by using the word pinterest and I found five sites in the top 10 pages with having the word pinterest in their domain name.

 

Yes I have decided to move my plans to another domain. Figured it's not worth the risk.