A company registered their name as my domain name...

[aceO07]

I've had the domain for a while, but haven't had time to make real use of it. Recently I've had more time and noticed that a company registered their name after my domain name. For example, my domain is 'world.com', their company is 'world inc.' and their domain name is 'theworld.com'.

My domain name was from years ago. Their company seems to be only a year old and probably inactive now.

Any issues with me actively using my domain name?

 

[bsobel]

No, they would have to have a preestablished trademark for their to be any issue which could effect you.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: bsobel
No, they would have to have a preestablished trademark for their to be any issue which could effect you.

What about their company name(it is registered.)? Do I have to wait for that to expire if I want to pick it up? I like my domain name and would like to use it as the company name to go with the domain.

 

[Freshgeardude]

reminds me of nissan.com and nissanusa.com

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: bsobel
No, they would have to have a preestablished trademark for their to be any issue which could effect you.

What about their company name(it is registered.)? Do I have to wait for that to expire if I want to pick it up? I like my domain name and would like to use it as the company name to go with the domain.

Depends, if they are local or in the same field (e.g. computers) it could be an issue. But such name registrations typically are done at a county level.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: freshgeardude
reminds me of nissan.com and nissanusa.com

I hope it doesn't come to that. I know I came up with the name before them and might have scrap papers with various development notes on it with the name. It's probably 1 person operation and they didn't make much progress and lost interest.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

world.com isn't the actual name...

 

[Scouzer]

nevermind tricky thread writer

 

[Saga]

Originally posted by: bsobel
No, they would have to have a preestablished trademark for their to be any issue which could effect you.

This is definitely not the case, as quite a few lawsuits about various peoples names have ended with the domain going to the company in question, regardless of the individual having owned it for, in some cases, up to and beyond ten years.

Hi Bill. Usual level of competence I see.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

world.com isn't the actual name...

Yeah but if a company called World trademarks their name, you have to give up any domain with that in it, at least that's the way I understand it.

Even if it sounds like it, you have to give it up. Remember mikerowesoft? Was a personal home page and MS forced him (his name was Mike Rowe) to give it to MS.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

world.com isn't the actual name...

Yeah but if a company called World trademarks their name, you have to give up any domain with that in it, at least that's the way I understand it.

Even if it sounds like it, you have to give it up. Remember mikerowesoft? Was a personal home page and MS forced him (his name was Mike Rowe) to give it to MS.

You have it completely wrong. MS settled with him.

Nissan Motors is suing the pants of Uzi Nissan, the guy who owns Nissan.com for his computer repair business. He refuses to settle.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That Nissan case is still going? I thought he had already been sued and it was the end of it. Guess Nissan thought they were going after some small mom and pop computer repair place, and were wrong.

edit: Hmm just checked nissan.com sure enough. I could have sworn that used to go to Nissan's (as in the car company) home page at one point.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

Ugh.

It was an EXAMPLE.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
That Nissan case is still going? I thought he had already been sued and it was the end of it. Guess Nissan thought they were going after some small mom and pop computer repair place, and were wrong.

edit: Hmm just checked nissan.com sure enough. I could have sworn that used to go to Nissan's (as in the car company) home page at one point.

I'm surprised he doesn't have more ads on his page. All the hits for Nissan cars probably could bring in some nicead revenue. They seem to have lots of support to keep the fight going. Their last updates said Nissan cars wants to trademark Nissan computer and other stuff. That's just evil..

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
That Nissan case is still going? I thought he had already been sued and it was the end of it. Guess Nissan thought they were going after some small mom and pop computer repair place, and were wrong.

edit: Hmm just checked nissan.com sure enough. I could have sworn that used to go to Nissan's (as in the car company) home page at one point.

I'm surprised he doesn't have more ads on his page. All the hits for Nissan cars probably could bring in some nicead revenue. They seem to have lots of support to keep the fight going. Their last updates said Nissan cars wants to trademark Nissan computer and other stuff. That's just evil..

He has been in a long battle with Nissan USA, having ads would drastically hurt his casue to keep the domain.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: Mike

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
That Nissan case is still going? I thought he had already been sued and it was the end of it. Guess Nissan thought they were going after some small mom and pop computer repair place, and were wrong.

edit: Hmm just checked nissan.com sure enough. I could have sworn that used to go to Nissan's (as in the car company) home page at one point.

I'm surprised he doesn't have more ads on his page. All the hits for Nissan cars probably could bring in some nicead revenue. They seem to have lots of support to keep the fight going. Their last updates said Nissan cars wants to trademark Nissan computer and other stuff. That's just evil..

He has been in a long battle with Nissan USA, having ads would drastically hurt his casue to keep the domain.

Yup, you are right. I was thinking that the too. I hope they win. They had the name first. Nissan shouldn't be allowed to trademark something that already exists just to squash it.

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Would kinda suck for a company called World to get a trademark. That would affect quite a lot of companies. Also shows how the system is silly. If you had a full blown established site there but just never had the money to trademark it then someone can do it under you and screw you over.

That's actually a pretty good domain. Simple word domains are quite hard to come by, but shows they're still out there.

I did get a 3 letter .me a while back but that's not as impressive as a good .com.

LOL