CBS wants to take my domain name (Update: Matter Closed)

[sswingle]

edit: Wait, you were notified during registration of the trademark infringement, but were allowed to register anyway?

Its pretty common for the registrar to do an auto lookup to see if you are registering something similar to something that already exists.

Example, live in a city called Mt Vernon. Registered a domain name that started out www.mtv-xyz.com. Was notified that it could possibly violate MTV trademark. Let me register anyway, and of course I have never heard anything from MTV about it because it doesn't relate to them at all.

 

[Imp]

Not a lawyer...

The question is whether you want to fight it or not. It may be a matter of you calling their bluff and them backing off. Unfortunately, CBS has at least a couple billion dollars in some accounts to stomp on little people.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Damn URL shorteners....

 

[02ranger]

Damn URL shorteners....

Wait, what happened!? I had something witty and awesome to say and then the URL disappeared, as well as my joke potential.

I am not amused.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Its pretty common for the registrar to do an auto lookup to see if you are registering something similar to something that already exists.

Example, live in a city called Mt Vernon. Registered a domain name that started out www.mtv-xyz.com. Was notified that it could possibly violate MTV trademark. Let me register anyway, and of course I have never heard anything from MTV about it because it doesn't relate to them at all.

I didn't realize that. Kinda nice actually, that they at least give the warning.

For OP, I'd just make a simple "welcome" page along the lines of, "Welcome to the private website for TwiceOver's son and family. Now fuck off!"

 

[TwiceOver]

So I thought maybe I was hitting high in google or something so I did a search. They don't own dexter.com either so.

 

[DrPizza]

Dexter is just a wild guess... that's not necessarily his son's name.

 

[02ranger]

Dexter is just a wild guess... that's not necessarily his son's name.

I'd say it's probably not cause dexter.com is something to do with industrial washers, dexter.net redirected to semo.net, and dexter.org had to do with a college. Dexter.gov was blank but I doubt that's the page he's using. There are other domains he could be using I guess, but I doubt CBS would care much about those.

 

[TwiceOver]

And now I'm trying to get that trademark notice that I received when registering the domain and that is proving near impossible. Registrar? Nope, check our TLD provider, CenterInc? Nope, check with ICANN. Ugh.

 

[Ns1]

related:

http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

 

[TwiceOver]

related:

http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

I love that.

 

[TwiceOver]

And now I'm trying to get that trademark notice that I received when registering the domain and that is proving near impossible. Registrar? Nope, check our TLD provider, CenterInc? Nope, check with ICANN. Ugh.

And now on to IBM who oversees the trademark regulations.

Sigh.

 

[Red Squirrel]

IP laws trump every other law and don't require much evidence or a proper court case, you're screwed. Even a murderer would get a better case. Remember that guy called Mike Rowe? He could not make the web site mikerowsoft.com because it sounds the same as Microsoft. He got off fairly easy (no lawsuit) but he did lose the domain. Interestingly it points to microsoft.com now.

 

[Ns1]

IP laws trump every other law and don't require much evidence or a proper court case, you're screwed. Even a murderer would get a better case. Remember that guy called Mike Rowe? He could not make the web site mikerowsoft.com because it sounds the same as Microsoft. He got off fairly easy (no lawsuit) but he did lose the domain. Interestingly it points to microsoft.com now.

See post #35 for someone who won.

 

[waggy]

IP laws trump every other law and don't require much evidence or a proper court case, you're screwed. Even a murderer would get a better case. Remember that guy called Mike Rowe? He could not make the web site mikerowsoft.com because it sounds the same as Microsoft. He got off fairly easy (no lawsuit) but he did lose the domain. Interestingly it points to microsoft.com now.

he didn't lose it. they came to a agreement and he gave it them in exchange for another site, developer tools and them paying his expenses.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

See post #35 for someone who won.

The court ordered NMC to pay $58,000 as cost under rule 68, this is less then 2% of what the cost was to defend this case.

"Won"

 

[Ns1]

"Won"

The dude really spent 2.8m on this case?

 

[jagec]

The dude really spent 2.8m on this case?

I doubt it. There's probably an attorney in the family who was working the case, and that number is derived by multiplying hours worked by an "hourly rate" derived from a big private law firm. I'm sure that some money changed hands, but not $2.8M.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Either way, nobody as a victim "wins" a lawsuit. It ends up costing tons of money no matter what. The person who files the suit always wins by causing harm to their victim like they intended.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I love that.

Yeah. I hate that it's such a crappy website though.

 

[TwiceOver]

Yeah. I hate that it's such a crappy website though.

His traffic is probably ridiculous. Keep it simple, save on bandwidth.

 

[John Connor]

I registered a domain name {name}.xyz I was notified during registration that the name was trademarked by CBS Interactive and that I could not use the domain name in any capacity that would infringe their trademark.

I am not referring to their show in any way and therefor am not infringing on their trademark. They are saying I am infringing and that I am to give up the domain to them within 7 days.

The domain has nothing at the site except a blank white page while I build the site (which is for my son).

Do I have any recourse?

It could be used for TV shows. Like a character in a show has a computer and you see site.XYZ.

 

[edro]

Tell us the name. We will be your legal counsel.

 

[alkemyst]

It depends, if you are trying to get around parking a website by saying it's your kid's they can still make a claim.

It really depends how much they and you are winning to fight, read as spend money to defend it.

When I was in the website hosting/development business we had a lot of this with domain scalpers doing the *blink blink* thing meanwhile marketing domains.

 

[notposting]

Agree on making it look like "something".



Blow up a pic you took of some trees as a background, have a title, and say welcome to the private family pics page for whatever. Maybe have a login area (if you are sure it is patched/secure).



Then wait a couple years and BOOM trust fund for the kid.