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You will likely lose it to apple if they find out about it. Point it at an affiliate store and wait for that to happen.

• potatolicious 17y ago
  Knowing how many HN readers actually work at the big corps (MS, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc) odds are this is on their radar now.
• aymeric 17y ago
  There are so many something-iphone.com or something-ipod.com websites out there, when is a domain name infringing the trademark laws? Does anyone have any guidelines around that?
  • JacobAldridge 17y ago
    > when is a domain name infringing the trademark laws? 1) When the trademark owner decides it is, and 2) They have more money than you. Would that it were more related to the actual infringement or the intent behind it, but that discussion rarely reaches an open court.
• kls 17y ago
  Not if he can show that he owned the domain name before Apple established trademark. Now here is the tricky part if you use it to blur Apples Trademark on tablet computing and possibly (it's a stretch) Personal Electronics it could be argued that you are trying to cause confusion in the market place. If you offer to sell it to apple you could be accused of squatting if you owned it before Apple established trademark then you have a defensible position. So, Selling iPads would give the indication that you are an Authorized reseller, you are not which means legal trouble. Selling software or ebooks for the iPad is a gray area, while it is not a competing product for the trademark it could successfully be argued that it is causing confusion in the marketplace. Selling a USB enabled trampoline that you have named the iPad will most likely still get Apple after you, but it is very defensible, unless Apple could successfully argue for broader coverage that the Trademark applies to all personal electronics.