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Register your domain as a trademark. It costs a few hundred dollars, and can be done online. This gives you stronger rights with ICANN, against anybody who illi
by Animats 6mo ago
Register your domain as a trademark. It costs a few hundred dollars, and can be done online. This gives you stronger rights with ICANN, against anybody who illicitly acquired the domain, against typosquatters, the registrar, and the courts. You can send intimidating lawyer letters, and quickly escalate from the registrar's support department to lawyer-to-lawyer phone calls.
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- simultsop 6mo agoThat is a really fd up system. Pay more to own more.
- otterley 6mo ago"You get what you pay for" has been true ever since capitalism was invented. Whether it be the "get a registered trademark" route or the "pay more for a competent domain registrar" route, you pay either way.
- Animats 6mo agoRegistering a trademark won't prevent screwups such as the original posting here. What it will do is help you apply pain to the registrar until they fix the problem.
- sidewndr46 6mo agoI think the proper term is 'pay to play'
- Beijinger 6mo agoTrademarks mean Bullshit. Facebook closed a site of mine besides having a registered and valid (US) trademark that precedes everything.
- mh- 6mo agoTrademarks can't magically prevent someone from doing something wrong. That doesn't make them useless. (No idea how this relates to Facebook, so responding to your comment generically.)
- Beijinger 6mo agoSomebody using this name claimed my site if fraudulent. Now, please show your ignorance regarding trademarks and ask how he could use the name if I have an old trademark....
- gzread 6mo agoA trademark means nobody but you has the right to use the name in commerce. It doesn't mean Facebook is forced to give you a site (whatever that means).
- Beijinger 6mo agoBullshit
- donmcronald 6mo agoWhat? Where can you register online? In Canada you basically have to hire a lawyer and the wait time for issuance is crazy. The backlog peaked at a 4 year wait after Covid. I’d love to be able to register an trademark online.
- Animats 6mo agoRegister a US trademark on line here: [1] Current wait times: [2] About 4 months to first reply, 10 months to issue. I've registered ANIMATS, DOWNSIDE, and SITETRUTH. It's not hard. [1] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/apply https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/apply [2] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/application-timeline https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/application-timeline
- deaux 6mo agoSo it has to be a US trademark? Even for businesses outside of the US? That seems a bit of a racket. Unless it depends on the TLD and you're saying it because it's a .com?
- mike_d 6mo agoI own a domain registrar. Personally (not our official position), I would never try to bring a trademark into this type of dispute. Once you make a trademark claim the domain gets locked to prevent any further changes and you get directed to file a UDRP. We will then act based on the ruling, which could take months. Same for trying to send "intimidating lawyer letters" (or having your attorney contact us at all). Outside of a few narrow cases, nothing obligates us to spend money on legal resources to respond. But once you demand specific treatment under the law, we have to direct you to a court holding jurisdiction over us to rule in your favor.
- gzread 6mo ago> We will then act based on the ruling, which could take months. That's fine, you're paying for all lost business revenue during that time since it was obviously caused by your gross negligence (liability for which cannot be waived). Hmm. Might be in your interest to undo the mistake quickly?