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Old 11-11-2008, 08:30 PM
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Default Re: Company trademark alerts for domain buys?

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Originally Posted by SearchEngineZ View Post
I mean, if you found out that NewsCorp bought yourdomain.ie, what would you do about it?
You should also take a look at trademark and copyright laws in the country responsible for the TLD's - they may not be the same as in the US.

Prime example is Geoffrey The Evil Giraffe and their "R-US" trademarks. In the UK and Australia they have had great difficulties keeping the "windows-r-us" type names from getting trademark approvals.

If you can reasonably assert domain squatting or some other nefarious thing, there is always WIPO. It costs $5k but really does work - we've been on both sides of it.
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