Is Pepsilime a trademark? - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**steven22** · 04-05-2005, 09:35 AM

Is Pepsilime a TM name?

They do not have any trademarks on the name pepsilime or pepsi lime listed anywhere.

Currently pepsi owns diet pepsi lime .com and i bought pepsilime prior to pepsi registering dietpepsilime

Any thoughts?

**DNGeeks** · 04-05-2005, 11:08 AM

Pepsi is trademarked, and since the domain contains their trademark they could say it is confusingly similar and registered in bad faith or simply claim trademark dilution.

**draqon** · 04-05-2005, 02:23 PM

steven22, your domain is definitely a trademark infringement. i would let it drop, not worth the high risk it entails.

**financialtraffic** · 04-06-2005, 11:02 PM

The word Pepsi is backed and protected by a company that literally has mountains of disposable cash.

I doubt it would trouble them much to defend their legal business name. It's not worth the potential headache.

**sufi** · 04-07-2005, 12:03 AM

Heavy Duty TM issues and not worth to engange in legal disputes with Pepsi. My advice is to let it drop.

**DaddyHalbucks** · 04-08-2005, 01:39 AM

A no brainer. You are treading on their rights.

Dr. Domaining · 04-08-2005, 01:56 AM

What everybody has said is true.

**steven22** · 04-08-2005, 08:20 AM

Hi,
I am glad none of you are lawyers...LOL

We have come to an agreement and the domain has sold for $4500.00

Thank you for your imput!

Dr. Domaining · 04-08-2005, 02:49 PM

Wow, congratulations on the sale!

**DaddyHalbucks** · 04-08-2005, 10:32 PM

Sold to whom? To Pepsi?

?

Dr. Domaining · 04-08-2005, 11:21 PM

The domain hasn't officially been transfered yet. It looks like Steven still has it. My guess is that Pepsico is willing to pay the small sum of $4500 to get the domain because it is probably less than or equal to the amount of money it would cost them to fight for it. There is also a possibility that they are launching the new beverage sometime in the near future and they don't want to risk not having the domain in time for launch.

**namestrands** · 04-09-2005, 06:14 AM

So what you are advertising here is that if we all register pepsi related domains for the $6.00 reg fee, we can expect a company like pepsi to settle with figures in excess of out of pocket expenses.

The mere fact that Pepsi settled without issuing you a non-disclosure as terms of sale is very suprising.

I will grab my popcorn, sit back and watch to see if the whois information changes over to that of PEPSI Co.

Pull up a seat everyone..... steven22 vs. Pepsi Co is about to commence

**DaddyHalbucks** · 04-09-2005, 06:37 AM

If Pepsi is buying it for $4500 --that is surprising to me.

Large corporations usually do not make such payments to cybersquatters.

**octobus** · 04-09-2005, 08:30 AM

And nobody pays ransoms to kindappers either... I've had a similar experience with a major non U.S corporation, though I only grabbed the domain for it's traffic and didn't know they would want it back.

**adoptabledomains** · 04-09-2005, 11:55 PM

At first glance, I thought it said pepsiSLIME. MM MM Good.

**draqon** · 04-10-2005, 11:53 AM

you arent the only one who thought that, adoptable. its easy to accidentally transpose the letters when you are reading it. i hope pepsico is smart enough to market it as two different words, Pepsi Lime, rather PepsiLime or anything like that.

Dr. Domaining · 04-11-2005, 06:38 PM

There was just a Coke Lime commercial on television so you know that Pepsi Lime will be available very soon.