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So during my stage of domaining idiocy (when I first started) I registered maybe 3-4 names with “Apple” “amazon” and “intel”.
I still have one and totally forgot about it, but I got an email from a company with the EXACT 2 words I chose to register. The company is currently using a .co.uk extension, I have the .com
If there is someone very educated on Copyright laws that can message me that would be wonderful! I’d like to talk with you!
So the message I first recieved was this:
“Hi *******,
We noticed you had registered ************.com which is our registered brand name, we’ve been looking for this domain name for some time. Would you be willing to release this domain into our jurisdiction?
Please contact me back to discuss this further.”
I responded with a short message as i wasn’t %100 aure if he was trying to buy it or forcefully take it, I said:
“Absolutely, thanks for reaching out. Please do send an offer if interested.”
The next email I recieved was this:
“Thanks for responding swiftly, our company is an accredited registrar here in the UK and we are well adapted to the domain industry. We’re looking to secure the .com version of our brand name, which you are currently in possession of.
We would appreciate the offer being sent to us with your asking price. We are willing to pay the current market price for it to cover your initial costs of registration. However since this is our registered brand name, please do understand that we are within our rights to pursue all data and copyright/trademark infringements through our legal counsel. We hope it does not come to this point, however we do by law need to make you aware of the potential outcome of sitting on trademarked domain names.
Thank you!”
What is my best action here? Just give them the domain? I don’t really care if I have to, like I said I forgot about it, I just wanna know my options. If I could make money off it, i’d like too but I understand that copyright laws can be tricky. Would really appreciate a PM do I can disclose the full details, like the domain name, the company name ect.
I still have one and totally forgot about it, but I got an email from a company with the EXACT 2 words I chose to register. The company is currently using a .co.uk extension, I have the .com
If there is someone very educated on Copyright laws that can message me that would be wonderful! I’d like to talk with you!
So the message I first recieved was this:
“Hi *******,
We noticed you had registered ************.com which is our registered brand name, we’ve been looking for this domain name for some time. Would you be willing to release this domain into our jurisdiction?
Please contact me back to discuss this further.”
I responded with a short message as i wasn’t %100 aure if he was trying to buy it or forcefully take it, I said:
“Absolutely, thanks for reaching out. Please do send an offer if interested.”
The next email I recieved was this:
“Thanks for responding swiftly, our company is an accredited registrar here in the UK and we are well adapted to the domain industry. We’re looking to secure the .com version of our brand name, which you are currently in possession of.
We would appreciate the offer being sent to us with your asking price. We are willing to pay the current market price for it to cover your initial costs of registration. However since this is our registered brand name, please do understand that we are within our rights to pursue all data and copyright/trademark infringements through our legal counsel. We hope it does not come to this point, however we do by law need to make you aware of the potential outcome of sitting on trademarked domain names.
Thank you!”
What is my best action here? Just give them the domain? I don’t really care if I have to, like I said I forgot about it, I just wanna know my options. If I could make money off it, i’d like too but I understand that copyright laws can be tricky. Would really appreciate a PM do I can disclose the full details, like the domain name, the company name ect.
