There may not be a trademark on "Eight Simple Rules" but squatting on a corporation's intellectual property is plenty grounds for a UDRP, especially when the domain is three otherwise unrelated words and your domain was registered six months after the show first aired and two years after ABC registered 8simplerules.com.
You led everyone to beleive their was, now your backstepping. I never heard of this show until you mentioned it here, I never associated the domain with any such show as you can see on the landing page.... Your only perceiving this as infringement, when in fact it's not....If you want to run this by JB to prove your claim, go ahead, I more than welcome it.
lasikeyecenter.com - you bought it roughly a year after the trademark for ProVision LASIK Eye Centers [78693980] was registered. And there are plenty other TMs containing combinations of "LASIK", "LASIK EYE" and "LASIK CENTER".
This is not PROVISION, and your LYING AGAIN by telling members here that I bought it a year AFTER the TM!. I owned it from 28-aug-2003 as you can see.
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 78693980
Filing Date
August 16, 2005
Current Filing Basis 1B;44D
Original Filing Basis 1B;44D;44E
Owner (APPLICANT) Laser Provision Inc. CORPORATION 73 Tranby Ave. Toronto CANADA M5R 1N4
Attorney of Record James Michael Faier
Priority Date
August 15, 2005
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "LASIK EYE CENTRES" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Domain Name: LASIKEYECENTER.COM
Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC.
Whois Server: whois.moniker.com
Referral URL:
http://www.moniker.com/whois.html
Name Server: NS1.SEDOPARKING.COM
Name Server: NS2.SEDOPARKING.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 14-may-2007
Creation Date: 28-aug-2003
Expiration Date: 28-aug-2008
Your scraping the bottom of the barrel here to make this fit into what you want it to, just so you dont come out of this looking like a fool..... Well you already did that....and I doubt you will have the decency to apoligize or at least admit your wrong....Few members ever do, so I wont hold my breath.