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It contains their trademark word and they're VERY big literally everyone in the world knows them lol. Got contacted directly through Dynadot.
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Got contacted to take domain name down. Anyone ever had this happen?
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It contains their trademark word and they're VERY big literally everyone in the world knows them lol. Got contacted directly through Dynadot.
moonshine7000
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let me guess its an expired domain.
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Nope, just contains their trademark domain
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UPS, Fedex, Trackerboats, Sears, Lands End, AT&T, Apple, Google and a slew of others have sent me similar emails. I could wallpaper a decent size restroom with the demand letters I got from all those entities.
I kept all the sites up with the exception of the Google violation up until they ripped them from my hands.
That is just the beginning of their attempt to take the domain and, in all reality, so you still have some time to earn with it but eventually you'll end up losing the domain.
I would ignore that email and wait for the overnight demand letter and stall them as long as you can.
I kept all the sites up with the exception of the Google violation up until they ripped them from my hands.
That is just the beginning of their attempt to take the domain and, in all reality, so you still have some time to earn with it but eventually you'll end up losing the domain.
I would ignore that email and wait for the overnight demand letter and stall them as long as you can.
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Yep, that's a lost case IF they indeed hold a trademark.
What is it? Apache? Mozilla?
What is it? Apache? Mozilla?
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Thanks! Did you end up losing all of them? They got my contact email due to the whois but nothing else, no address no nothing, I wonder how exactly they'll go about it next year lol. There's still more than half year left on registration, let's hope they forget it. Any chance the registrar will force me out of it?
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The email doesn’t sound like they’re going to do anything.
I bought yesterday a domain name with the name of the restaurant that is still under construction in my building.
Wondering how much they’ll pay.
I bought yesterday a domain name with the name of the restaurant that is still under construction in my building.
Wondering how much they’ll pay.
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Yeah, I ended up losing them but I bought other variations which is why I got multiple C&Ds from several of the same companies (the freight names made me tons of money) but there was never any kind of legal action taken despite their sword rattling.
With Google I just gave it up (an android name) as I was actually concerned they would do the Craigslist thing and make an example out of me.
If you are monetizing that domain and don't eventually give it up there is a chance you'll lose that monetization method as that is one tactic they use.
Don't marry your domains for CPA/Adsense/CB/Email marketing/Etc, just date them.
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Ah! I've gotten emails from them before.
Short story: about 10 years ago I tried to sell a premium domain that contained a brand or trademark owned by wikipedia in it. I got a big ass offer via a famous domain sales site. During their regular review of the transaction the domain sales admin wrote me that he would not broker the transaction and he killed my auction without further explanation.
I replied and asked and the last thing he ever wrote me was "legal issues" and nothing more. I asked what legal issues and they never replied.
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Not earning much from it anyways, it was growing at a very steady pace though and would soon become bigger than my main site which is a shame. Plus plenty invested in it already but I guess I'll take it until they actually send me some sort of letter or something.
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did you end up taking down the domain or kept it for yourself at the end?
moonshine7000
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So if had a domain for example redapple.com would that violate trademark because it contained the word apple in it ?
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I tried selling it a few more times over the years and never got even close to the original amount so I got frustrated and built a large clone of Wikipedia in it, packed with ads all over the place.
It was a script that simply pulled the same path from Wikipedia, spun the text and saved the page locally and substituted paragraphs for ads. I got about 200k pages indexed and it started raining visitors.
I got tons of emails from Wikipedia volunteers telling me to take it down, I'd always reply that I had the creative commons attribution in the page (true) so I was doing nothing wrong (I honestly wasn't apart from their TM on the name).
They must have mass reported me to Google. It raked in good $ for several months before it got nuked.
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Lol at the frustrated part. Well guess ill wait till they force google to slap me.
Unfortunately its not earning well enough for me to sell it yet :l
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Different case because apple is generic word too, redapple.com could be anything
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In 2013 we got a notice from a international lawyer. After that we transferred the domain to that company.
A trademark on a word has nothing to say.It depends for which niches the trademark has been registered for.For example if somebody registered that trademark for tourism than you still are allowed to use that word for other niches and they can't do shit since their trademark is limited to the tourism niche.
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Its wikipedia