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If Fox News had this trademarked: VRFOX

Then FOXVR is or is not a violation? For the sake of clarity, it would not be a website that looks anything like Fox or Fox News.
 
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vrnyt.com has a page
nytvr.com has no website but they do have a trademark.

So what will nytvr be? The VR is not trademarked. If NYT stands for the New York Times and I think it does, my page has nothing to do with the Times.
 
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VRNYT= Virtually Real Naked Yoga Teachers

Raise your hand if your visiting this website? (y)

Virtual rentals not your type

Vaginas Really Need Your Testicles

Naturally it is the virtually real naked yoga teachers' vaginas I speak of
 
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@Want2learn do you have a license to use the term NYT?

Cheers
Corey
 
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VRNYT= Virtually Real Naked Yoga Teachers

Raise your hand if your visiting this website? (y)
I have a silent shout out to you at the bottom of the page now!
 
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I believe it depends on the date they trademarked it versus the date the domain was created. Also it matters if the domain would be or is being used for a different purpose or not.

If the domain is created first then it holds intellectual copyright and the Trademark may in fact be a breach of that in an attempt to undermine someones idea. (perhaps not in this case just in general)
 
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It is at times like this I feel kind of slow!

If the domain coke dot com became available bc it expired, would you reg it? So coke still has the trademark, but somehow some way its available now.

Or say dove trademarked dove a few years ago and never registered dove dot com. Are you staying away from that one as well?
 
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It is at times like this I feel kind of slow!

If the domain coke dot com became available bc it expired, would you reg it? So coke still has the trademark, but somehow some way its available now.

Or say dove trademarked dove a few years ago and never registered dove dot com. Are you staying away from that one as well?

No as the trademark was first.
 
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so stay away from idaye dot com then huh
 
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Stay away from Trademarks period however if you thought of the idea first don't just cave in to an email if they came along second with same idea.
 
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Or say dove trademarked dove a few years ago and never registered dove dot com. Are you staying away from that one as well?

Apples and oranges. "Dove" is a dictionary word that might have all kinds of uses.

NYT is recognizable as a substantial media company with significant business in virtual reality media (they even sent a cardboard stereopticon for use with a smartphone along with the Sunday edition a while back).

While a Google search for " 'not your type' nyt " turns up a HUGE 94 results, the credibility of the notion that you selected this string of characters for "virtual reality, not your type" depends on believing that other people are stupid and/or inordinately gullible. Again, what is "virtual reality, not your type" even supposed to mean? The fact that you ignored that simple, basic question suggests to me that you are simply trying to come up with some kind of threadbare excuse for registering a domain name which clearly relates to one of the lines of business of the New York Times.

I once had a situation with WFUBMC.com involving the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) and a guy who lived a few miles from there who was intercepting patient emails, offering to sell them to the hospital, and who insisted that his name stood for "Web Forum of Unaffiliated Business Management Consultants", complete with bullshit web page and all.

That scene from "Coming to America", in case nobody gets it, is supposed to be FUNNY, because McDowell's bullshit rationalizations for running a carbon copy of a McDonald's restaurant are stupid. It's not funny because he's "clever".
 
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"nyt" means "now" in Finnish and it is also a sometimes appearing magazine part of Finland's biggest newspaper. :)
 
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vacation rentals now yours too!
 
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vacation rentals now yours too!

So, let's be clear. You registered a domain name containing a well-known mark, and which is also a simple transposition of elements in a registered mark they own, and of which you are aware. And now you are looking for a credible excuse.

Do I correctly understand the situation?
 
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No you do not understand the situation correctly. I am however very thankful for your concern. I appreciate all the feedback you have given on the matter!
 
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So, let's be clear. You registered a domain name containing a well-known mark, and which is also a simple transposition of elements in a registered mark they own, and of which you are aware. And now you are looking for a credible excuse.

Do I correctly understand the situation?

John, have you never defended a case in which the domain contained a known mark?.....Did you not think that your client was aware of the mark?.......Did you win?

Without researching the answer, I am going to go out on a limb and say you have.

My point is that registering a domain with "NYT" does not necessarily constitute bad faith.
 
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It is at times like this I feel kind of slow!

lol

the names you keep regging, along with the bizarre rationale for acquiring them

has led me to concur

:)


imo....
 
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