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Hi guys, i put up my domain Amicale.org on godaddy auction on Sep,11,2019,
howere,my domain amicale.org was against the trademark said by one of their staff and not allowed me to auction again.

honesty speaking, i really got confused their such behavor,.

amicale is a common french word which means CLUB or ASSOCIATION as well as widely used on the net in french language areas, trademark?

I have sent their several emails but they do not get me back yet.

Any thoughts will be much appreciated!

Vane
 
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Refund for what, a premium listing, how much do they owe you, I think if they refuse to list your domain you should get a refund. I think your refund maybe got lost in translation, but maybe you can ask the Godaddy rep here to look into the refund as it seems warranted if a service was not provided.
to be frank,am extremely dissatisfied with their poor services
 
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a while back i tried to list 't-r-u-m-p.com',rejected. they said it was a stand alone word that was tmkd. with all those hyphens,really. i said it was a dictionary word and no one can actually own the word, as long as they stay away from the tm niche they are safe. still no good. a few weeks ago i tried again with 'applead.co'.this time i had a word with apple so i should be safe,another rejection. tm issues again. then i explained it was not pronounced 'apple ad' it was actually 'app lead'.no good. it's currently under review at afternic. wonder whose side they are going to come down on.
 
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a while back i tried to list 't-r-u-m-p.com',rejected. they said it was a stand alone word that was tmkd. with all those hyphens,really. i said it was a dictionary word and no one can actually own the word, as long as they stay away from the tm niche they are safe. still no good. a few weeks ago i tried again with 'applead.co'.this time i had a word with apple so i should be safe,another rejection. tm issues again. then i explained it was not pronounced 'apple ad' it was actually 'app lead'.no good. it's currently under review at afternic. wonder whose side they are going to come down on.
Im sorry to hear that,IMO,to some extend,most of theie staffs who worked at godaddy are not as pfofessional as domain investors
 
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It takes at least a few days to get a response. You need to have extreme patience or you will lose your sanity. Keep your emails very concise and only cover one topic at a time.

They move slowly for a tech company but I'm sure they'll refund you if they offered to sell you a featured listing, and you accepted their offer, and then they changed their mind about listing it.

That seems like a super reasonable thing to want a refund for. I'm not their biggest fan but I'd be so surprised if you're on the hook for a featured listing fee for a name you aren't allowed to list.

All you can really do is count down the days until you can transfer out. In the meantime, you should be able to list it in other marketplaces. Check if it'll list on Afternic :)

Beyond that, there's nothing you can do and there's no point worrying about it at all. GoDaddy can be incredibly frustrating to deal with. It's a rite of passage. You aren't officially a domainer until you've had a negative experience with GoDaddy.
 
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It takes at least a few days to get a response. You need to have extreme patience or you will lose your sanity. Keep your emails very concise and only cover one topic at a time.

They move slowly for a tech company but I'm sure they'll refund you if they offered to sell you a featured listing, and you accepted their offer, and then they changed their mind about listing it.

That seems like a super reasonable thing to want a refund for. I'm not their biggest fan but I'd be so surprised if you're on the hook for a featured listing fee for a name you aren't allowed to list.

All you can really do is count down the days until you can transfer out. In the meantime, you should be able to list it in other marketplaces. Check if it'll list on Afternic :)

Beyond that, there's nothing you can do and there's no point worrying about it at all. GoDaddy can be incredibly frustrating to deal with. It's a rite of passage. You aren't officially a domainer until you've had a negative experience with GoDaddy.
Godaddy's services are geting worse and worse than ever, i have some domains regged on their platform,and have decided to transfer them to other registars
 
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I don't envy their job and accept what @Joe Styler says above that it is their decision what they will list on their platform. Being so huge is difficult no matter how well run to be consistent.

Your case is interesting @cabotower in that as AppLead it seems totally generic, yet AppleAd not.

It is interesting that Verisign today proudly promoted on their blog that the 5th most registered .com keyword last month was Airbnb. Seriously!

I hope if you can't use their service you will get a refund for your premium fee @VaneZhao. If I could offer advice ask for it as unemotionly and politely as possible to increase chances of success. They have ruled on not listing it so nothing to be gained by refighting that. I hope the premium charge at least works out for you.

Bob
 
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I don't envy their job and accept what @Joe Styler says above that it is their decision what they will list on their platform. Being so huge is difficult no matter how well run to be consistent.

Your case is interesting @cabotower in that as AppLead it seems totally generic, yet AppleAd not.

It is interesting that Verisign today proudly promoted on their blog that the 5th most registered .com keyword last month was Airbnb. Seriously!

I hope if you can't use their service you will get a refund for your premium fee @VaneZhao. If I could offer advice ask for it as unemotionly and politely as possible to increase chances of success. They have ruled on not listing it so nothing to be gained by refighting that. I hope the premium charge at least works out for you.

Bob
Thanks Bob,nothing but mad at their unprofessional experience and knowledge i experienced
 
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I think the reason is simple. They don't want to be blamed, and be part of a legal action. They lose nothing, but they lose time, if such an unlikely thing happens. You can't list keywords like, trump, paris; but you can list hiltonhotels.tld at Sedo. Because hiltonhotels.tld is not a hot domain if not com, and noone cares. Also they may be trying to protect their reputation. If you ask me, any domains should be allowed to be listed, except criminal sounding ones.
 
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i have sent you 6 emails and yet there still any no response and at the same time there is no refund as well,due to the Feathered domain services
I see no reason we would not give you a refund unless they didn't understand the request. If you send me a private message with your account number I can make sure you are issued a refund.
 
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I see no reason we would not give you a refund unless they didn't understand the request. If you send me a private message with your account number I can make sure you are issued a refund.
Hello,I have listed my domain into the SEDO.com successfully,
and please give me a refund,thanks!
 
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I have listed my domain AMICALE.org into the sedo.com for sale and i also do much appreciated to those whom they are warm-hearted in the thread(y)(y)(y)
 
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I think the reason is simple. They don't want to be blamed, and be part of a legal action. They lose nothing, but they lose time, if such an unlikely thing happens.

I think if such an unlikely thing happens buyers may want their money back from them. Probably they are afraid of this possibility. Otherwise they would be interested in earning more commissions by not rejecting anyone.

I think country is likely a factor in their decisions. Being in the same country makes everything easier including asking for refund for buyers and for them from sellers if they actually refund buyers and including taking domains from buyers for TM reasons. They likely take different risk and action based on country of seller and TM holder as the only variable they can't predict is the country of buyer, before the sale.
 
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Maybe there is something like DMPL block for some keywords, and we are not aware of it. If they don't allow it, then list it somewhere else. You can argue with them as well, and sometimes it may work.
 
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Sedo has no problem to list well known TM domains. Most recently they have listed Realtor.global in the auction. I tried to point it out, but they redirected me to their legal dept. so I just moved on.
 
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Sedo has no problem to list well known TM domains. Most recently they have listed Realtor.global in the auction. I tried to point it out, but they redirected me to their legal dept. so I just moved on.

not true,
i have a few domains who can not be listed at sedo
they are detected as a trademark

same goes with a lot of trademark,
you can't argue with tm database

just move on
by the way amicale .org is a steal at that price,
it is the case where .org work better than the .com
OP should focus on finding a good buyer
 
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I tried to buy a name like retailshopping or shoppingonline years ago and couldn't due to TM it was the most generic combo in world for online business and they were enforcing TM on it so nothing surprises me now.
 
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@eurorealtor. @Sedo and @GoDaddy both blacklist any domains ( that might tick off the current President of the USA) as @Sedo wrote due to pornography and violence. @GoDaddy will sell them to you but not let you try to sell them, at least it was due to trademark in their letter. I get the trademark issues with Trump but I also find using the trademark law to stop speech criticizing a publically elected figure concerning, which is beyond the scope of this conversation. I now (but not at the time) understand the need to check trademarks. But if estibot can warn me in many cases, why can’t godaddy? If anyone wants TrumplovesMexico.com let me know!
 
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I have owned dna.us since 2006.
A trademark for dna was registered to some company in 2015.
https://trademarks.justia.com/862/43/dna-86243059.html
Is Godaddy saying that Godaddy wouldn't let me list dna.us for sale?
dna.us has been registered at Godaddy since 2006.
 
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