domain i-phone.in

[Broker]

Jumped on the bandwagon with a hyphen which is not a TM to my knowledge under the U.S TM office. Over 12 million on google and all other major extensions taken.

Thanks for thoughts,
HasRob........

 

[slaughterbeck]

Whether or not it poses any trademark issues is dependent upon your usage of the domain name. If you park it and have a bunch of links to Apple iPhone and products alike that could be confusingly similar to their mark, the hyphen will make little difference.

With that being writing, I don’t believe you have anything to worry about. Apple inc. has historically taken a “look the other way” approach to the hundreds (more) developed websites with their trademarks and registered trademarks included in the domain name.

It’s difficult to assess a value for various reasons but the name i-Phone.in is very appealing to the eye at first glance. I will, however, add that I don’t expect the iPhone to make an inroad in the country of India with its costly initial price tag and mandatory two year Cingular contract.


Best wishes,
Kimmy

 

[Broker]

Thanks Kimmy, I appreciate your thoughts very much and I agree. I will change the content or repark at 1plus as mini site tomorrow.

HasRob.........

PS- Yes it does look good dont it i-phone.in

 

[keesj]

I'd recommend doing some research on the usage of "i-pod" vs. "ipod". This way you can predict wether or not the dash is going to be a problem. Because as you might know, the name iPhone officially doesn't contain a dash.

My opinion:
If I look at the iPod it's a very interesting product, also for making money (see accessories, etc). I also some people write i-pod instead of ipod. So this will probably happen for the iPhone too.
However, I don't think .IN is a very good extension like explained above. Ofcourse you can still use it globally but in that case I think there are better .COM-names available. (*iPhone.com, iPhone*.com, or even *i-phone.com, i-phone*.com).

Looking at the name from a usability perspective I don't think it has a great value. I'm not sure about the SEO perspective since I don't know a lot about it, but I do think the SEO value will make or brake this domainname.