| So if i get this straight... if i see a domain, and there is no US trademark registered on it, then i can legally protest against its "unlawful registration" and at the end of the line become the legal owner of said domain for a fraction of it's worth?
This is like the world upside down here. If the main registry wants this then they should have implemented this at the very start 15 or so years ago when hardly anyone had a domain name so that the rules were clear. Changing the rules now that all good names are gone and after it has become a multibillion dollar business is just crazy.
However having said that, I own a trademark (just not the US one), and i did inquire with a US based law firm a few years ago regarding a domain registered by a US citizen. They basically told me that if I registered the trademark, and paid up the legal fees, that i would soon have been the legal owner of the domain. No problem they said. I didn't go through with it as i only did it to find out if it was possible, but this example just explains that this stuff is for real.
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