TM issue with SEDO

[domainecaboose]

Has anyone ever had a domain "blacklisted" by SEDO because a formal complaint was filed by another entity?

 

[Theo]

No, but Sedo banned all Obama/Biden/McCain/Palin domains from their marketplace and parking. They did not fully explain how they came to this moronic decision.

 

[domainecaboose]

Acro,
thanks for the reply. That is moronic. It is funny, cause the domain I had blacklisted I dont believe can be TM'ed. It is a combo of 2 dictionary words that are very vague and common. An example would be olympicathletes.com

 

[dn-101]

To the children of the Third Reich warriors the usual rational doesn't apply

 

[jdk]

Acro,
thanks for the reply. That is moronic. It is funny, cause the domain I had blacklisted I dont believe can be TM'ed. It is a combo of 2 dictionary words that are very vague and common. An example would be olympicathletes.com

Olympic(s) is trademarked

If your domain included that word, that may have been the reason. I am just going from your example given, incase your domain had it in it.

 

[Theo]

As Doug said, anything related to the International Olympic Committee's trademarks (and they are plenty) is now allowed on Sedo.

Edit: I meant to say *NOT* allowed on Sedo. Honest typo

 

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[jdk]

Edit: I meant to say *NOT* allowed on Sedo. Honest typo

This is why they should allow us to edit our post, say 10 minutes, after posting in this forum.

 

[tomsa]

Yes and it was a generic word trademarked (french legislation is really rude).

 

[Gerry]

Olympic(s) is trademarked

If your domain included that word, that may have been the reason. I am just going from your example given, incase your domain had it in it.

It is a German Company that has a TM on Olympic, Olympics, Olympiad and so on. Sedo happens to be based in Germany.

Yet there are countless TM holders for the same words here in the states, most notably Olympic Paints.

Such a bogus explanation. No other parking company bars them.

As for the candidates, it is a bonehead move, especially since the Republian National Convention has these domains registered:

2007

calculatingclinton.com
canttrustclinton.com
clintonbabbit.com
clintoncleland.com
clintoncohen.com
clintonisbad.com
clintoniscorrupt.com
clintoniswrong.com
clintonkerrey.com
clintonlibrarycard.com
clintonlibraryresolution.com
clintonomalley.com
clintonsalazar.com
clintonschweitzer.com
clintontruthwatch.com
hillaryiswrong.com
hillarymythfact.com
hillaryrecords.com
hillaryspendometer.com
hillarytaxplan.com
hillarytruthsquad.com
hopelesshillary.com
outwithhillary.com
thetwohillarys.com

2008

amateurobama.com
barackisliberal.com
barackiswrong.com
baracknotready.com
barackobamanotready.com
barackobamatheliberal.com
baracktheamateur.com
barackthebeginner.com
fauxbama.org
hesnotready.com
meetbarackobama.com
norealexperience.com
nowecannot.com
nowecannot.net
nowecannot.org
obamaisliberal.com
obamaiswrong.com
obamanotready.com
obamaspendometer.com
obamatheamateur.com
obamathebeginner.com
yeswecandowhat.com
yeswecanwhat.com

Question to sedo in this case would be, "who complained?" and since when has sedo appointed itself as the internet police.

 

[longhorn]

Yes I have. Sedo has a list of terms it periodically checks. They will add additional terms to that list if a company complainers about a trademark violation.

 

[Dave Zan]

since when has sedo appointed itself as the internet police.

I wouldn't necessarily say internet police since they can only police their own
services. That's every business' choice, especially if the risks are unpalatable.

I do agree banning politicians' names is rather too much, though I guess they
just want to be...consistent? (for lack of a better term...)

Ah well, that's Sedo for ya...

 

[dvdrip]

I think that the olympic domain was just an example. Not a good one though.
This is because you are not allowed to enter a domain with "olympic" in it at sedo.

Heck I couldn't even enter my team's domain: olympiakos.