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Originally Posted by mkx
It amazes me how people are still concerned with trademark violations in domain names. A company rarely sends letters asking for trademarked domains to be transfered. In all my life I have only received one and that was from yahoo. That was several months ago and I never replied to them nor heard back from them since. Especially if you a selling the companies product you are falling in the good faith category and it would cost several thousand dollers for the company to get the domain transferred to them, not to mention the long process. Zippos.net is not a $10,000 domain. I could go on and on about this issue but have to go get brunch so I'll leave it at that  |
What amazes me is how care free many webmasters are about poaching domains containing famous, registered, and distinctive trademarks.
The odds are stacked against cybersquatters. The risk is very high. The penalty under the ACPA is $100,000 PER domain!
You can even get sued if there is no registered trademark. It is called a "Common Law Trademark."
Registering domains containing famous, registered, and distinctive TMs is playing with fire. It is insane.