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    Could this be considered cybersquatting?

    I recently bought a few LLL names and have seen some cases where people lost the names due to displaying ads for products of a company whose abbreviation consisted of the letters in the LLL. The names were parked and as a result I do not want to park and run ads on my LLL names. Instead, I want to just state they are for sale, but now I question whether that will be considered cybersquatting.

    Thoughts?

    Let’s use different examples of there is a company name that is LLL with TM. There is a company who’s abbreviation makes up the LLL, and so on.

    If I am displaying no ads at all and the site is just my investment in the name, could it be considered cybersquatting?

    ---------- Post added at 03:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:44 PM ----------

    In other words, I want to put up static pages for these names and state they are for sale on the page. No ads. Will I still have to worry about a company coming along and saying that I am cybersquatting, just because I invested in a name?

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    I do this aswell.. most of my acronym names go to my for sale lander page without any ads. for example ze dot net.
    those names don't make a ton of money in parking anyway so it would be an unnecessary risk to park them IMO.

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    A company can always come along and claim anything even if they have a very weak case.
    "No case is a sure winner, and no case is a sure loser."
    VW.net was set the basics of cybersqatting: don't do ANYTHING in bad faith.
    http://www.finnegan.com/publications...aspx?pub=12410

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toilet-Monster View Post
    I do this aswell.. most of my acronym names go to my for sale lander page without any ads. for example ze dot net.
    those names don't make a ton of money in parking anyway so it would be an unnecessary risk to park them IMO.
    Great suggestion! When it doubt, play it safe.

    "Just a lot of embarrassment, embarrassed to be part of group of domainers who would do this to their fellow man.",
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