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Originally Posted by Redrob
The registration of a trademark is tied to a particular class of products. Therefore, Hustler.com is tied to Hustlers offering of erotica as the class of products. If someone were to register Hustler.xxx, it immediately causes a trademark violation because .XXX, by nature, offers the same class of products.
The choice given Hustler is to defensively register the domain and park it or fight the registration of the domain by a third party should that happen.
Neither option is fair to Hustler and both options cost money without generating any additional revenue.
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Thank you for this response. Understood.
But is this not already an issue with all other domain extensions? Does Hustler own every domain extension of Hustler already? What if someone uses Hustler.info? I'm sure this is an issue already dealt with.
Maybe charging them a fee to reserve their trademark is easier and cheaper than chasing down the domain owner legally? I'm sure they have done it multiple times already.
Fact is, protecting trademarks costs money. Right?
Are they doing them a favor by allowing them to pre-reserve the url? Or not? Did that also happen when they launched every other extension after .com?