question Site Take Down Request

The domain is crap anyway.
If you ignore the fact that it's too long and does not roll of the tongue well, there is only one 'obvious' end user, and that is usually the telltale sign of a TM issue.
It's not worth fighting over this domain, because it was not worth buying in the first place.

What Kate said above and:

The OP already basically admitted he regged it in bad faith,

GermanBitcoinBank.com is available for registration.

It's quite obvious what the OP was trying to do.

Why so many domainers are on the fence on this name is quite sad!

The name sucks and it was registered in bad faith! End of Story!

P.S. DeutscheBank is a fierce protector of their trademarks too! It's foolish to hold on to this domain and it's even more foolish for domainers to encourage them to do so! They were given fair warning!

BitcoinBankOfAmerica and BankOfBitcoinAmerica are both turds floating in the rushing sewers of a legal sh*tstorm.

99% of humans on earth don't have the resources to compete in such a legal battle against the 1%.

You can try, just be sure to update us from the free computers at the public library.

Best of luck to you.

Germany's biggest bank said an "operational error" led to the accidental collateral payment to an exchange it does business with.

The size of the mistake? $35 billion, a person familiar with the matter told CNNMoney. That's $5 billion more than Deutsche Bank's entire market value.

"The error was identified within a matter of minutes, and then rectified," a Deutsche Bank spokesman said in a statement.


Deutsche Bank said it was moving the money as collateral to its account at Eurex, a major international exchange focused on European derivatives. Investors are sometimes required to post more collateral as security for repayment. The incident occurred in late March, the person familiar with the matter said.

It's not clear how much money Deutsche Bank intended to pay -- just that it wasn't nearly $35 billion. Deutsche Bank declined to comment further.

Galaxy Traveller said:

As Deutsche is a made up word (not sure) and hence the bank may win.

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made up?

yes by the germans

and it means:

german

Ategy.com said:

I would say that you are fine ..

Deutsche is not at all a made up word .. it means "German" in German
Bank is also Bank in German
ADDED: If Bitcoin is also Bitcoin in German (which I suspect) then the 3 facts combined really help your case in that it makes the domain a generic keyword domain (in German)

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agreed

but still stupid to keep that domain

unless you are establishing a bitcoin whatever bank
for germans or by germans

who would be your buyer?
can you park it?
deutsche bank won't buy it for sure
and they won't rename or name themself that way

urlurl said:

landing page or not, you shouldn't hold or buy any obvious TM names or trade marked names within a name

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THIS!

Late to the party, but as someone who did the same dumb crap, i’d honestly say you will not get the living crap sued out of you. However, you reg’d it in bad faith like the others said, your intent was to gain something off of someone elses name, don’t be a dick, take it down.

If their TM is worldwide and exact to what your domain is, than the jig is up. If not, you have a fighting chance.

I recieved a similar email from a UK company claiming they were going to take the domain legally if I didn’t give it to them. A quick search shows that none of their legal BS exists in the US (where I live) so I was able to confidently reply with a doubled price, and some attitude.

In your case, just give it up and get some new names

Deutsche bitcoin bank is generic

Smiles76 said:

Drop that domain name and move on. You will never win this battle. Especially, not against a bank with a team of lawyers and unlimited resources. They probably have an entire department dedicated to going after TM violators.

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Sad but true, although I don't see anything infringing with the domain itself. As @Chris Wright states correctly 'Deutsche' as well as 'Bank' are simply German dictionary words and only the term "Deutsche Bank" is protected. Besides that there are several "Bitcoin Bank" trademarks pending, maybe have a look towards them as well as it doesn't have to be necessarily the DB AG. Either way I wouldn't take the risk for that name. Cheers.