Vendée.com

[Sarcle]

Good luck!

Very good well rounded post that looks at all the possibilities and acknowledges the current traffic and use.

A few things I see.

There will be tm cases without a doubt. And Company names should, and have a right to. As far as I see vendée is a generic term. Many sites use this in a website name with the .com attached. How a website owner views this and a wipo judge views this are two different things. But I would suspect that if vendee can be used in many applications with the .com then I can't possibly see this as a problem.

As far as what people are taught, people can be untaught also. This is just a matter of schools telling children, children telling parents, parents telling friends, ect. ect. This wont happen overnight but with the traffic these have currently I can't see it taking to long to catch on.

As far as the space in domains I also thought it was a no-no in english domains but just last night I saw "M&Ms" using it on tv for their new chocolate bar website. The use of the word "never" is such a strong stance. When things seem to change constantly

[Bramiozo]

About the tm-infringement, it's 1-0 for idn's : a german judge ruled that the non-idn kettenzuege.de does not grant any rights over the idn kettenzüge.de.

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/41566

But yes, tm-infringements will be one of the holes in the road.

I do no agree that spaces are in effect equal to accents for the obvious reason that accents are part of single words,spaces are seperators and as such they are not of importance since they (if need be) can be replaced by a dash, dash/space is merely a matter of estethics.

Also, you confirm what I already suspected, the french dn-market is pretty much dead if it weren't for ctr-revenue's.