Selling it infringes on the rights, does it not? You're trading in someone else's TM. Gets a bit funny though when the TM is generically held by lots of people - like Prince, or Guardian. Should you be entitled to even SELL it. Now if you can park it, you can't minisite it and you can't sell it - why are you owning it? The only legitimate use is legitimate use.
Probably depends on context.
If you're selling windows to Microsoft, then the latter might think you're infringing on their Windows trademark for an operating system. If you're selling windows (with hardly any meaning) to someone else, then that's likely not causing anyone any problem.
Granted, that won't stop a**hole trademark holders from pursuing the domain name owner or the (potential) buyer. The world's full of a**holes, alas, so we try to protect against them.
A lot of domainers aren't in america and some aren't even in Europe - though some hold their assets through corporations in said locations making it all very strange
Unasi comes to my mind as a past example. He he, at least you have an idea what some trademark holders are up against.
Agree with you 100%. its not a trademark violation till it causes Trademark violation by causing confusion. I just brought upi this same thing up in another thread in appraisals category where some guy wanted AmericanAirlines.info appraised and he had a lot of people telling him that he was violating trademarks
I Argued that there can be a company called American Airlines that sold american made airhoses. Being as though one company would be airhoses and the other company an airline there is no confusion that calls for a trademark violation. Both are dictionary words and Airline has more meanings then one. Suing such company would violate his rights because he should be able to use dictionary words to describe his business as long as his business isn't about airplanes. Not saying the dude will sell it tomorrow but its not completely impossible. who is to say that two years down the line somebody doesn't want to start an airhose company and offer $1000+ for it why should this dude delete his listing by listening to any of us if it will cost him the loss of it. This is all in defense of his trademark and not the name cause I personally dont care for .info names and it isn't a name I would have bought. But bad trademark advice is bad trademark advice and if its given it should be done so by pros instead of us.
I suppose all that's possible if you mean air lines as two separate words if referring to airhoses. Airlines generally as one word, however:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airline
a company that owns and operates many airplanes which are used for carrying passengers and goods to different places.
Even if you (try to) use airlines in one context, you likely can't convince the general populace of that because the word altogether has a different context to them.
And of course, American Airlines is (in)famous as a company that offers air transport services for passengers and goods.
Unless you're maybe in a country that: a) doesn't generally define the word airline as Merriam Webster (and any other dictionary) does, and b) doesn't have an AA office that advertises its services, what you argued above -- unfortunately -- is not true.
At any rate, it's up to the OP and whoever to make sense of what's discussed here.
