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Just trying to understand this. Wouldn't that actually be good? Wouldn't the trademark owner want the domain so they could keep it unassigned? If they let it ex
by apocalyptic0n3 11y ago
Just trying to understand this. Wouldn't that actually be good? Wouldn't the trademark owner want the domain so they could keep it unassigned? If they let it expire, someone could eventually purchase it and use it for similar purposes. That seems counterproductive to me, not transferring it.
- 0x0 11y agoIf they lawyered up enough to get one party to agree to let it lapse, I'd say the outlook is not favorable for any copycats.
- duskwuff 11y ago> Wouldn't the trademark owner want the domain so they could keep it unassigned? Consider a low-quality domain name like "buy-acme-widgets-cheap-123.com" (for the trademark "Acme"). There are so many possible domain names of that form that Acme Co. would have no real interest in trying to protect that specific one from being misused in the future. Another messy situation would be if the domain name contained multiple trademarks belonging to different owners. The holder of one trademark would probably be reluctant to take ownership of a domain name which also infringed on another company's trademark!
- dwild 11y agoThen they won't care if the settlement is to not use it. It will just point to nowhere...