shootingstar67 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:05:51 +0000

I just registered cjwebhost.com and there is a domain called cjwebhosting.com but their site/business name is something completely different. Can they sue me?

Musson — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:42:30 +0000

Though the thread seems to be old, I'm just wondering how are the things with the topic-starter and whether he has registered the domain name he thought of.

akopayan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:51:00 +0000

Carney;216468 wrote: Nobody will give you any right to register such a domain name. The international Policy of ICANN forbides this. In other case IBM company can receive a lot of money from your pocket and they will be the winners after the court process.

yes, I guess you are right here. nobody has won the court process yet under such circumstances.

Carney — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:17:50 +0000

Nobody will give you any right to register such a domain name. The international Policy of ICANN forbides this. In other case IBM company can receive a lot of money from your pocket and they will be the winners after the court process.

Can you copyright typos...?

nielsencl — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:46:14 +0000

I wish we had cybersquatting laws. There are companies with hundreds of thousands of domains that just have parking pages with ads on them and make millions each year.

By the way I just heard the other day (but did not see the news item) that Dell was suing some guys that had registered some typo domains like de11.com and were making some nice money as Dell affiliates. Dell found out and wants to cut them out of the loop....

Just found the story: http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=44345&src=site-marq

JeevesBond — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:14:06 +0000

I believe this is down to trademark law. Someone is in breach of trademark law when they seek to confuse a potential customer. So if you get IBM.net, provide a service almost exactly the same as them (or claim to), with similar logos then you're probably going to get sued!

Are there any actual 'cybersquatting' laws, or is it just trademark?

void — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:09:34 +0000

Yea right “cybersquatting”, that’s the term for it. Recently I came across a post in a forum known as wickedfire .com which is a US based forum. The owner/admin of the forum has issued a lawsuit to an under age boy from UK who used the same domain name like their’s. The owner/admin of the forum had issued several notices to him but it was all in vain and so he sued the lad. The whole incidence has been put up on the forum so that’s how I came to know about it.
I think you can’t use a same domain name like someone else’s as it would be against the ethics and cyber laws.

demopaul — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:35:03 +0000

You may actually use ibm.com for selling products other than cars or car-related stuff, I can refer you to this thread .

andy206uk — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:39:51 +0000

It's called cybersquatting, and yes they can sue you for using it. IBM is their trademark and if you start trading or advertising using it they'll come down on you like (a very expensive) ton of bricks. The guy that bought itunes.co.uk registered it before Apple launched the iTunes service and before they trademarked the name but when the went through the .uk registrars (nominet) dispute resolution service the name was handed to Apple very quickly.

Don't forget, even if you win the first round, large companies like IBM have got the money to keep a case in the courts for years at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds which is a drop in the ocean for them, but would likely send your average webmaster bankrupt - and once you can't afford to fight, you usually loose.

PS... if 'theinkjetcartridgeshop' is trademarked and they were clued up I'm 99% sure that they would win a case against your friend using 'theinkjetcartridgeshop.co.uk'.

You can read about Nominets DRS here: http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/help/faq/
ICANNS UDRP is available here: http://www.icann.org/udrp/

a_gajic — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:54:28 +0000

Don't take my word for it..... but i'd say yes.

Adam