Are Parking Companies liable to "contributory infringement"

[bdss]

Hosting and SEO company fined for helping counterfeiter.

http://www.inksure.com/anticounterfe...ers-themselves

Until now a service/platform provider has always been protected and the onus lies with the domain owner/ business owner.
Ex: Torrent websites for hosting & sharing music/ movies.

so does this mean Parking companies can be found guilty of "contributory infringement" on the same logic or am I interpreting this incorrectly?

Thoughts?

[eeedc]

The name of the website was "Copycatclubs,"

and they did more than take $10 a month for Hosting. They built the website and did SEO.

Torrent websites can get away with it as long as there is a legal use of the file sharing and they DON'T know of the exact illegal material, and take down the illegal material when they do know.

Parking companies seem half-way inbetween to me. If it's an obvious trademark infringement and they notice and don't do anything... maybe

[domaingenius]

Try parking a domain name with "Scientology (tm) " in it with a parking company, they will refuse it. Probably because they are known to be so litigious

[Dave Zan]

Nothing's going to stop a determined plaintiff from trying to hold liable a parking
company for trademark infringement. That's what Vulcan Golf's currently trying
with Google, sedo, Oversee.net, etc.

Last I checked, they're trying to settle.

[bdss]

Torrent websites can get away with it as long as there is a legal use of the file sharing and they DON'T know of the exact illegal material, and take down the illegal material when they do know.

Parking companies seem half-way inbetween to me. If it's an obvious trademark infringement and they notice and don't do anything... maybe

Well said, and since parking companies major revenue comes from squatted domains this is going to be an interesting space to watch.