Trademark question

[Gary Moore]

If you bought a domain that turned out to be trademarked, would you attempt to sell it to the TM holder for a small amount? Or just turn it over to them to avoid any hassle?

 

[Hypersot]

imo, better not contact them at all and silently delete the domain from your account

 

[gilescoley]

Just delete the name

trying to sell it to them is showing bad faith and giving them a reason to go after you

 

[Kate]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/ca...out-getting-into-trouble.872754/#post-5023058

 

[Gary Moore]

Ok, so what I have been referring to is that I picked up cricketworldcup.live because of a keyword suggestion on Google's Keyword tool. Cricket World Cup has 1.5mil views a month with a spike in March of almost 90mil. I had no idea this was such a big thing. After looking up info about cricket, I looked up the world cup. By the ICC World Cup website the term "Cricket World Cup" is not to be used in your website, as in, don't use it to get traffic. I went to the UK Intellectual Property Office and looked up their trademark filing. Everything in it is related to merchandise - tangible, sell-able goods. The only digital trademarks are on recording media. The actual name used in the trade mark is ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

 

[RevolutionaryDomains]

It's a clear TM violation. However, it appears you just reg'd the name yesterday at GoDaddy. Simply call and request a refund/grace delete.

 

[Gary Moore]

I cancelled it and got the refund. Thanx everyone.