.ai Is It Legal to Buy a Trademarked .ai Domain Just to Resell It Later?

[lewroe]

I'm considering buying a company's trademark .ai domain. Does this create any risk? I want to buy it and list it on Spaceship's for-sale page. If the brand or someone else wants it, they can buy it is doing this illegal? The domain is currently available.

 

[bmugford]

It depends.

It could range anywhere from a common generic term that is also a TM to a well known made up brand.

It's generally best to avoid foreseeable trademark issues though.

Brad

 

[katerleonid]

I'm not a lawyer, but this reminded me of the Trademark.ai case.

 

[lewroe]

I'm not a lawyer, but this reminded me of the Trademark.ai case.

I don't know this. I looked it up online, but nothing came up.

 

[katerleonid]

I’ve written about it on LinkedIn and X.

It involves Dharmesh Shah (the buyer of Trademark.ai), the domain’s seller - Marc Köhlbrugge - and Raj Abhyanker from Trademarkia®.

From what I understand, Dharmesh transferred the domain to Raj.

 

[Hashim]

Only a lawyer/court of law can tell you whether it's legal. Whether you'll get away with it is the question you should be asking. What you should be worried about is UDRP, or whatever the Anguilla NIC's equivalent is. It's possible your domain is priced low enough for a company to just buy it off you and avoid the headache of a domain dispute. If not, and they want it badly enough, they're going to get it and you're going to be left holding the bill.

 

[cooljub]

Only a lawyer/court of law can tell you whether it's legal. Whether you'll get away with it is the question you should be asking. What you should be worried about is UDRP, or whatever the Anguilla NIC's equivalent is. It's possible your domain is priced low enough for a company to just buy it off you and avoid the headache of a domain dispute. If not, and they want it badly enough, they're going to get it and you're going to be left holding the bill.

Er what?

 

[Hashim]

What do you find confusing?

Er what?

 

[cooljub]

What do you find confusing?

Not confusing, but this bit..

Whether you'll get away with it is the question you should be asking.

 

[Hashim]

Not confusing, but this bit..

What do you see wrong about it? There are many things that are technically illegal that you can get away with, sometimes because the law takes a long time to catch up (smoking a spliff), sometimes because you're too small fry to bother with (downloading pirated movies), and sometimes because the law doesn't cover everything (like which domains can be registered), so a lawyer has to prove it in court. It doesn't take much reading between the lines to understand OP isn't asking about how the law works, they're asking whether they can realistically get away with what they've done and what the risk is to them.