Do people understand the law?

[TheButcher]

I have over 3300 domains, I would never register or buy a trade marked domain. There are laws, cases brought in front of the courts for trade mark violation, infringement, deformation of character, I could go on and on.

You can't register and sleep in peace with a name like microsoft2.com or 2microsoft.com

It's absolutely bull. You're asking for a cease and desist plus damages in a court.

Please think before getting smart.

I get hundreds of emails a day to buy a domain, I laugh at how stupid people are registering famous people's names or company names.

Get real kids.
You have legit domains for sale I'll buy them anyday. Don't do the wrong thing.

Thanks

 

[111media]

Fan Sites, Product Promotion etc

People buy sites with the names of famous people and trademark names all the time for legitimate purposes like fan sites and product promotion. If a site is developed as a place to honor the subject or help sell the product those are legitimate uses and generally the TM is perfectly okay to own in these instances. Saying people are stupid for registering these names is in itself stupid imho. If someone wants to start a Britney Spears fan site at BritneySpearsFans.com or whatever then they have a 'legitimate use' and are generally exempt from any kind of legal action.

 

[dna]

I just did a trademark search on just 2 of my domain names
and found that both were trademarked: fossil and dna
I own www.fossil.us and www.dna.us.

You can trademark anything. You can sue over anything.
Maybe I should put up a website on those names just to be safe.

You can search your names here:

http://www.uspto.gov

 

[eple]

What is Hilton?

Hilton is a norwegian family-/surname, and a norwegian that emmigrated to USA used his surname to name his hotel business. This family name is the same as the name of farm they were living on in Norway. The part of the family that remained in Norway still has the farm up and running, which have been a business since atleast the 1700s.

Does it mean that all other Hiltons permanently lose the right to use their surname online as a domain name, just because some part of the family has trademarked it in USA?

Lets say the people running their farm in rural Norway has a world hit with some of the farms produce, do they not have the right to use: HiltonGourmet/Products/Farm/Foods/Cuisine/Etc.com?

 

[mole]

Everything is trademarked somewhere somehow, including sex.

If you want to register a domain name, be prepared to lose it to reverse cyberjackers. Best thing you can do is to show good faith. Your lawyers will do the rest. And not have porno links in your sig to boost traffic

 

[dgridley]

If people "understood the law", we wouldn't need lawyers...

I regged several potential C&D's when I first started out. It's not always easy to see the line between infringement and a safe reg.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

If people "understood the law", we wouldn't need lawyers...

Nightmares...

-Allan