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Fairly obvious passing off and/or typosquatting IMHO. I dislike FB and all its works, but I'd say that you are in the wrong here unless you can make a really g
by DamonHD 6y ago
Fairly obvious passing off and/or typosquatting IMHO. I dislike FB and all its works, but I'd say that you are in the wrong here unless you can make a really good case that you have a legit reason to use exactly this form of name.
- dclaw 6y agoTyposquatting is not illegal regardless, and trademark protections do not extend to every conceivable variation of a companies trademark. All they can do is throw lawyers at it and hope you don't fight. This is still theft of the domain, and at a minimum they need to be compensated for the domain if it will not be returned.
- DamonHD 6y agoI'm not perticularly concerned about FB being hurt, though it may feel otherwise. And FB may also be obliged in law to be seen to protect its trademarks or lose them. But I am worried about the public being scammed by passing off or typosquatting, etc. FWIW someone is using the ID (reg number, physical address, domain name variant) of one of my companies right now to try to rip off the public, claiming to be a registered investment business. And I've had similar things happen in the past. This is not theoretical. Just creating such a domain for confusuion has few reasonable uses and many bad ones.