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Originally posted by Taboo
brisk,
re: creative naming
one thing you can do to get established is come up with a name, trademark it, find an art student, or cheap logo firm to make 3 logos for it and market it to BIG companies, i.e. Drug Industry, but offer it for free. tell them what you're doing, that you're trying to get established and build a resume, and that if they truly like the "name", they can have it, but you want a testimonial from them that you can show on your website that they took possession of the name/tm from you. have an ironclad contract. and offer the whole bundle to them for free. you've spent well under $1,000, maybe under $500 and now on your client list is a Fortune 1000 company. Then you have pseudo-experience under your belt... and start calling their competitors and offering up your services as the new maverick naming company for the Drug industry. We just opened shop and already hired by BLAH BLAH...
if you plan to do it w/o getting trademarks, you risk EVERYTHING. that whole creative naming industry is all about intellectual property and if you tease a company with your domain name, the first thing they'll do is see if it's TM yet, and if not, it will be soon. by them.
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Good points, although I'm not interested in starting a naming company myself.
Something I've wondered about before is what would happen if I registered a one word domain in 1998, but didn't do anything with it, then in 2004 some company got the trademark for that word, could they force me to give up the domain even though I owned it years before they got the trademark?