Can they take my domain? Legal Advice might be needed!

So basically I have a .com and the other people who are based in Liverpool have the .co.uk domain. They have a LTD, currently I don't have any sort of license. I'm starting to rank well and its a legit marketing business that I am launching in 2012.

If they have a LTD and are in Liverpool, can they take my domain for infringing on something? I am based in the U.S. If they can take it, can I get an LLC or LTD to make sure that doesn't happen?

Please need everyone's input!

Edit: They also are in the same marketing industry.

no worries about this... if they have all the rights then all UK businesses will be claiming all the .com TLD of their business names.

You have little to worry about. I could tell you more but the mods software thinks I'm trying to sell you something and has a problem with all my post yet they want me to keep making post to overcome the limit - how dumb is that?

If they only have UK rights then you don't have a problem but if they start trademarking it worldwide you may have a problem.

Your only issue would be if their name is a trademark. In which case, it's feasible they try legal action to get the domain. But you'd have to be a significant threat to them and they'd need to consider it worth the legal fees.

Biggles said:

Your only issue would be if their name is a trademark. In which case, it's feasible they try legal action to get the domain. But you'd have to be a significant threat to them and they'd need to consider it worth the legal fees.

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Thank you, I looked into a little more and you were absolutely right, again thank you so much, I was being a bit paranoid.

In addition to the term being trademarked, I think you would need to be using the domain name in a way that is clearly taking advantage of their trademark for it have legal ground. For instance, if their company is bottsberry farms (@ bottsberry.co.uk) and your site is bottsberry technology consulting services (@ bottsberry.com)... I don't think they can sue you for using their trademarked name.