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If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has bee
by dendory 11y ago
If a company can reasonably show they own a trademark for a name in a region and should be awarded a domain, registrars will give away the domain. There has been plenty of cases where even old domains were taken away.
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- plonh 11y agoICANN has policies in place to preempt ridiculous arguments like this.
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- chrsstrm 11y agoYou are not awarded a domain name simply because you hold a trademark. There is evidence that domains have been awarded to trademark holders after a UDRP hearing and the trademark holder contested the validity of the registration. Read the UDRP guidelines [0]. There is also the counterpoint of the case of Nissan Motor Co vs. Nissan Computer Corp [1] where Nissan Motors owns the trademarks but have not been granted nissan.com. [0] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en#4 https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en#4 [1] http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case292.cfm http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case292.cfm
- dingaling 11y ago> where Nissan Motors owns the trademarks but have not been granted nissan.com. Just to clarify, Nissan Computers also holds trademarks but in a difference field of commerce. Just like Volkswagen and Canon both hold trademarks on Eos.