Very important question before registering a domain!

[scissor22]

Hi all,

I want to register a domain since it is available and start a website immediately.
The problem is that the domain is has a word which is a trademark.
For eg: I know that sony.com is a copyright company and i find that sonyreviews.com is available and would like to start a site which would be a review site for sony products. Will this be a problem , am i violating their copyrights or domain trademarks. Please guide me with this....

Thanks!

 

[simon]

as long as you dont make money out of their TM is should be fine.
but ask around some more

 

[RaGa]

It should be ok, there are many many sites that use and abuse TMs.

for example: see www.****edgoogle.com

 

[webfreak]

Best to contact the company whose trademark you may be infringing and see what they say, IMO.

 

[scissor22]

Thanks for suggestions folks,
just curious, rather contacting the company about the trademark issue or getting permission, can i register the domain , start using it....and if the original company has any problems i can always communicate with them about this. The overall idea of this is that , this situation can be handled in a positive way without me getting into a legal hassle.
With regards to profit, ofcourse i would like to make some profit out of this site by placing google adsense codes on my site....
....any opinions about this?
thanks again!

 

[fkrule]

i thought you could register these kind of doamins as i saw someone with googleforums.com??

 

[webfreak]

i thought you could register these kind of doamins as i saw someone with googleforums.com??

It's a not a question of whether or not you can register them, it's a question as whether or not the trademark holder will see the name as an infringement and attempt to end your use of the domain.

 

[saatmarket]

There must be unhappy people around and they reach Tm problem to the owner.

 

[RaGa]

Just go to afternic and do a search on google. you will see that there are 20,000 ++ domains for sale with the word google in them, some good ones are going for $75 !

Do you really think that google can go after 20,000 + domain owners ? and this is ONLY one auction site !

Too much time and money consuming to go after them.

btw, afternic has 10,000 + names with sony in it, so you are just 10,000 + 1.

Go ahead and buy the domain and do as you like.

 

[scissor22]

Just go to afternic and do a search on google. you will see that there are 20,000 ++ domains for sale with the word google in them, some good ones are going for $75 !

Do you really think that google can go after 20,000 + domain owners ? and this is ONLY one auction site !

Too much time and money consuming to go after them.

btw, afternic has 10,000 + names with sony in it, so you are just 10,000 + 1.

Go ahead and buy the domain and do as you like.

Great idea RaGa, thanks for the suggestions.
Actually i had thought about making a site out of this domain but since i have to devote time to my other sites also i need your suggestions on this too
, i know that if this domain is submitted to a search engine , i can revieve substantial amount of traffic ....... so can i just park this domain at sedo and submit it to search engine and ofcourse, depending on whether this domain recieves any traffic , sell it over a period of time.

Thanks,

James

 

[simon]

paypalsucks.com is perfect running website and paypal cant do anything against the site. you are allowed to criticize a website but not profit from its name.

 

[etech-peter]

I don't think there should be a problem as you want to start a site which would be a review site for sony products on that name and you are not directly competing against their business.