Domain Name advice - trademark issue

If you haven't resolved this already, then there are only really 3 questions you need to answer:

1) How much are you going to benefit (mostly in financial terms, but obviously you may have some personal reasons), from keeping and in the future using the domain?
2) How much are they offering/willing to pay you for the domain?
3) Is the answer to 2) greater or less than the answer to 1)?
 
cheesyboy said:
Plot twist:
Shopper150 owns the Watches2U company. This was guerrilla advertising.
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oddly the whois data suggests the domain details have been in place since March;

Domain Name: WATCHES2U.COM
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 2014-03-04T00:00:00Z
Creation Date: 2005-03-26T00:00:00Z


Which seems a little odd if they only transfered the domain in the last month.
 
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I'm guessing that you lot missed the obvious fact that the domain was given as an example and not the actual domain the OP has registered.

Also, since the other company has registered it as their trademark they are well within their rights to request transfer of the domain and to take legal action to take it over if you don't do anything.
 
demonix said:
I'm guessing that you lot missed the obvious fact that the domain was given as an example and not the actual domain the OP has registered.

Also, since the other company has registered it as their trademark they are well within their rights to request transfer of the domain and to take legal action to take it over if you don't do anything.
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you cant just register a trademark and then ask anyone who has anything relating to that trademark to hand it over...

he had ownership of the domain name before this company ever came into existence and 8 years before they even registered the trademark. registering the TM does not give you automatic right to a domain!
 
demonix said:
Also, since the other company has registered it as their trademark they are well within their rights to request transfer of the domain and to take legal action to take it over if you don't do anything.
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Complete rubbish.

Unless the domain is being used in bad faith, the trademark holder has no rights to it at all. Especially since in this case the domain registration predates the trademark registration by 9 years (according to OP).
 
demonix said:
I'm guessing that you lot missed the obvious fact that the domain was given as an example and not the actual domain the OP has registered.

Also, since the other company has registered it as their trademark they are well within their rights to request transfer of the domain and to take legal action to take it over if you don't do anything.
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Lol, do you happen to be the other company?
 
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