Part of domain is trademarked

Alright, so I wanna make a website for an upcoming product. The company making it is very well known and I know it'll be a hit.

How would I go around infringing on their trademark though? I've seen multiple sites with exact match domains to the companies previous best sellers, they don't have issues.

Could I do something like a part match? Say product is "scrub dolly" domain names:
buyscrubdolly.com
scrubdollyretailers.com
etc.

Would this suffice as not infringing on their trademark? I doubt they'll do anything since my site will be benefitial for them, but it'd be sad to lose the site once it gains traction.

Cheers!

Yes, you can for sure.

There are a ton of sites like Appleinsider, Macrumors, etc. so this shouldn't be a problem.

You can do it with a disclaimer that you're not related with the site. But the powerful companies can change, bend, or break rules whenever they want. So, you should also keep them happy.

Anirban Nag said:

Yes, you can for sure.

There are a ton of sites like Appleinsider, Macrumors, etc. so this shouldn't be a problem.

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Yeah, I'll give it a go. Plan is to have it for a couple of months tops then sell it for 5 figures so it's someone else's concern

Starblazer said:

You can do it with a disclaimer that you're not related with the site. But the powerful companies can change, bend, or break rules whenever they want. So, you should also keep them happy.

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They wouldn't really bend the rules in this case, they'd simply take the domain without needing to lel
Although - my site brings them customers and $$$, I highly doubt they'd care as I said.

In this case, no, you are not within a fair use, because you are using the name of the trademarked company for your financial advantage.

Adding words like "buy" will not make any difference.

You would have to sell completely different product and ideally, make the distinction in the domain itself as well.

For example "ScrubDollyCinema.com" or "ScrubDollyOrganicFood.com" etc. Those would fit within the fair use.

Nargil said:

In this case, no, you are not within a fair use, because you are using the name of the trademarked company for your financial advantage.

Adding words like "buy" will not make any difference.

You would have to sell completely different product and ideally, make the distinction in the domain itself as well.

For example "ScrubDollyCinema.com" or "ScrubDollyOrganicFood.com" etc. Those would fit within the fair use.

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Right, I'll try speaking with the CPO of the company in question ask them if it's good to go. I know for a fact they allowed such practices in the past.