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What are the chances this plan could work?
Startup “LLLL LLC” owns LLLL-LLC.com wants to UDRP LLLL.com
due to non-response from the domain name registrant.
Please comment or advise if you have any trademark
and URDP experience or expertise?
••• QUESTION #1 ::
Would getting a Registered Trademark (via USPTO and LegalZoom) be a good way to snag a domain name?
The situation, background, and some details:
The current domain name owner has it parked via an online bidding system, and does not respond to any bids.
They have owned it for more than 12 years, so let’s assume their investment is a total of $150. or perhaps more.
Bid amount, offered via ONLINE bid and via email :: $200. will stretch the marketing budget for this LLC startup.
LLLL is an anonymized substitute for the 4 letters in use for the LLC, a registered LLC in California.
Our domain name now in use is LLLL-LLC.com (4L+3L = 7L :: LLLL-LLC.com) Where “LLLL LLC” is a registered LLC by my client.
My client wants to buy the 4L domain name LLLL.com but the owner does not respond to any bids or emails, so far. We have tried many times. Nothing. No replies whatsoever.
Tried email. Tried bidding. BLACK HOLE. no replies.
It looks like the domain name registrant/admin (DN owner) holds more than 10,000 domains. Tried once a week (both bidding and email ADMIN and REGISTRANT contact) for several weeks. NO REPLY. It may be that OWNER won’t even respond unless the bid is over $5,000 or some arbitrary and undisclosed asking price, perhaps?
. . .
My client, the LLC owner, has a very small marketing budget, it is a new startup.
The LLC was filed by my client more than six months ago.
I am a domain name investor myself, but I cannot stand this cybersquatter who will not even make a counter-offer or respond to any bids or emails. What's up with that? Not businesslike.
If you Google “LLLL” all by itself there are only a very few hits, less than 20, and none within the USA. The main one is a NONPROFIT in Sweden. SO, it seems to me that the LLLL brand has almost no value to any DN investor.
••• A Few More Questions :::
If the DN (LLLL.com) registrant will not respond to reasonable bids (within my client’s marketing budget) and will not make any counteroffer . . .
We plan to Register the Trademarks (LLLL and LLLLLLC, or LLLL LLC) . . . on behalf of our client, the startup LLLL LLC.
. . .
SO . . . What to do now? What is a suggested procedure in this situation?
What are the chances, that we be successful with UDRP?
How long does it take, typically?
How much would it cost, if we do all the work and do all the filing on our own?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Startup “LLLL LLC” owns LLLL-LLC.com wants to UDRP LLLL.com
due to non-response from the domain name registrant.
Please comment or advise if you have any trademark
and URDP experience or expertise?
••• QUESTION #1 ::
Would getting a Registered Trademark (via USPTO and LegalZoom) be a good way to snag a domain name?
The situation, background, and some details:
The current domain name owner has it parked via an online bidding system, and does not respond to any bids.
They have owned it for more than 12 years, so let’s assume their investment is a total of $150. or perhaps more.
Bid amount, offered via ONLINE bid and via email :: $200. will stretch the marketing budget for this LLC startup.
LLLL is an anonymized substitute for the 4 letters in use for the LLC, a registered LLC in California.
Our domain name now in use is LLLL-LLC.com (4L+3L = 7L :: LLLL-LLC.com) Where “LLLL LLC” is a registered LLC by my client.
My client wants to buy the 4L domain name LLLL.com but the owner does not respond to any bids or emails, so far. We have tried many times. Nothing. No replies whatsoever.
Tried email. Tried bidding. BLACK HOLE. no replies.
It looks like the domain name registrant/admin (DN owner) holds more than 10,000 domains. Tried once a week (both bidding and email ADMIN and REGISTRANT contact) for several weeks. NO REPLY. It may be that OWNER won’t even respond unless the bid is over $5,000 or some arbitrary and undisclosed asking price, perhaps?
. . .
My client, the LLC owner, has a very small marketing budget, it is a new startup.
The LLC was filed by my client more than six months ago.
I am a domain name investor myself, but I cannot stand this cybersquatter who will not even make a counter-offer or respond to any bids or emails. What's up with that? Not businesslike.
If you Google “LLLL” all by itself there are only a very few hits, less than 20, and none within the USA. The main one is a NONPROFIT in Sweden. SO, it seems to me that the LLLL brand has almost no value to any DN investor.
••• A Few More Questions :::
If the DN (LLLL.com) registrant will not respond to reasonable bids (within my client’s marketing budget) and will not make any counteroffer . . .
We plan to Register the Trademarks (LLLL and LLLLLLC, or LLLL LLC) . . . on behalf of our client, the startup LLLL LLC.
. . .
SO . . . What to do now? What is a suggested procedure in this situation?
What are the chances, that we be successful with UDRP?
How long does it take, typically?
How much would it cost, if we do all the work and do all the filing on our own?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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