trademark in domain

what gets you on the radar? if your not taking the pi$$ with misspelled trademark names eg >> reeebok.com. What constitutes abuse? clearly lots of people are sitting on domains, 1000s for some people. what should you 100% avoid ? eg, registering too many in small time-frame? Is cyber...

I was operating domain with rwt for a small online game for 7 years, today got Cease and Desist letter from them. They "kindly" asks me to shutdown my domain, and stop operating rwt activity They have registered TradeMark like Gnome My website name like GnomeTools I have 2 questions: 1) If I...

I am currently on the way to buying a domain. The domain name I am thinking of buying has the word "coder" + some generic words. And, The website will be on coding, technology, and stuffs like that. As there is a trademark registered with the name "coder", I am a bit skeptical wheather I...

I recently bought an expired domain that looks pretty similar to an authority website. For example - The authority site is - reviews.com And my domain name is - reviewed.com I am planning to create almost similar content that the authority site does. Will it create any trademark issues in...

Hello, Does anyone know where you go to claim a domain that violates your trademark? What do you do in this cases? Thanks!

I am a newbie domainer who found and purchased what I thought to be an awesome one-word domain, parallleldotcom. Then, I see (later) that there is a Parallels OS that runs Windows on Mac computers. Is this too similar a word to market? What could I do with it, if anything? Any advice would be...

If you happen to find a good domain name that has as its prefix a trademark, And if the company that owns the trademark allows you to use it for non commercial informational websites And the exact match keyword domain gets over 300K searches a month in just the US How would you best use it...

Hi, first off all i would like to pardom my english. I would like to start work with adsense, so here is my SWOT plan. I would like to registred the name of particular website which have some kind of brand, but no "made up words". This website use general name, for example, hot-dog or...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had ever dealt with a trademark dispute over the name of their blog? To cut a long story short, I've had a site up since 2012 and have recently applied for a UK trademark. I received an email from a company based in another EU country that they are planning to...

I just got an email from Facebook, please tell me is it real or just a scam, very much worried - as I own a website called facebookheadersize.com and its Facebook telling me to take it down :( The email is as follows From: [email protected] Sent: Tue 3/18/14 8:29 PM To...

Many of us have received cease and desist letters for our domains that have a company's trademarked name in it. The process typically consists of a company's representative or lawyer sending the C&D letter via e-mail or post and threatening legal action if the website is not taken down or...

So, lets say there is a name that you know is trademarked and in this case it was "example". Would it be considered trademark infringement if you went and registered the domain "examp.le"? Also, do domain registrars have a say about registering a domain name thats using a trademarked name?

Hopefully some of you guys with experience can give me some pointers on this situation. Basically, I have an e-commerce site with a single product, I buy that product directly from the manufacturer. I had to sign up as a wholesale account using my license, etc when I first began about 1 year...

Hi fellow white- and blackhatters, I want to ask if using a trademark like Apple or Sony in my domain name is legal? I've seen a ton of sites like "Sony46flatscreen", not owned by Sony (also mentioned in this forum several times. These sites are for instance promoting sony tv products with...