trademark domains

tattoo

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• #1

have you guys been able to get away with using trademark domains?

like if coca-cola.org was available, you're using it to sell something related to coca-cola...

 

snowwhite

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• Jun 24, 2008

• #2

thats a big domain no no!
why risk being sued?
avoid TM domains as simple as that

 

yuppy

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• Jun 24, 2008

• #3

however if you used it to bash cocacola you may be fine, parody speech is protected speech

 

tattoo

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• Jun 24, 2008
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• #4

how about if you say really big letters "NOT AFFILIATED WITH COCA COLA" i do see a lot of sites that use trademarked domains, but mostly forums, fan sites, enthusiast sites.

i just realized some of my bans were using trademarked names so i think i'll have to pretend to be an enthusiast site

and if they tell me to take it down i'll do what yuppy said

 

Atlas

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I just sold a world known tradename.ws domain a couple weeks ago, the longer i had it the more i thought i was going to lose it. I dont think its worth the risk of developing a site on a name that is a trade name of another company.

 

DrJekyll

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My partner got many a letter from ebays lawyers to give up domains.

he is holding onto 1 of them, but he is not using it either.

I have 1 with ebay in it, will use it as a cloaked domain, that way when I loose it, I might have lost the traffic soon anyway.

 

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madinaz

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• Jun 25, 2008

• #7

I have one and I'm an affiliate of the company who owns the trademark. I did get written permission to use trademark prior to doing anything with the site