domain name question

Usually, but courts have the power to make you hand it over if you were just buying it to make the company pay you lots of money. i.e. You have no real valid reason for owning the domain other than that.
 
i check the company for the trade marks and they dont have any, i could always buy it then make a web page.
do you have any advice so if the company has a trade mark i cant buy it but if it does i can and have more chance of keeping it?
need some one to explain the rules to me.
 
Basically, if your buying it in the hope a large chain company will pay top dollar for it then good luck, but the courts have the power to make you hand over the website if you have bought it for the soul purpose of ripping off a company. However, if you intend to use it for a legitemate purpose and the company decides they want it then you can make them pay IIRC.

Could be totally wrong so feel free to correct me.
 
Domains are first come first serve.

I was just giving you a warning incase you went an bought something obvious like coca-cola.com for example.

If it's for a legit means another company wont be able to take it off you for their business, you could use it for a private website if you want.
 
as long as your not using it as way of making money from the domain buy redirecting customers who think there going to another site www.xbox.com and then you have a shop selling female razors im sure you can get domain took off you
 
no it was etrade i closed the browser just before it asked me for payment, then came on here to ask a few questions went back and its gone.
 
crashuk said:
no it was etrade i closed the browser just before it asked me for payment, then came on here to ask a few questions went back and its gone.
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I got it, I'll sell it to you for, hmm let's see, one MILLION DOLLARS... :D
 
Are you talking about the new .eu domain names?
etrade would probably have been a good buy and I doubt any one company could claim the right to use it exclusively.
 
Nix said:
Domains are first come first serve.

I was just giving you a warning incase you went an bought something obvious like coca-cola.com for example.

If it's for a legit means another company wont be able to take it off you for their business, you could use it for a private website if you want.
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This is not actually true.
Domains are indeed sold on a "first come, first served" basis however it is a lot easier for large companies to take domains back no matter how long ago the domain was registered (so long as it was while the company was in existence).
A company cannot possible register every single version of their domain name so this is why we have trade mark infringement, prior rights, bad faith purchases etc.

If a company holds a trademark then ICAAN will usually rule in the companies favour.
If I wanted to, right now there are probably a few top-level country code domains available for microsoft.
It just wouldn't be worthwhile me registering them as they would eventually be taken away from me.

All this is moot however as any company would find it difficult to prove trade marks and exclusive rights to the domain name mentioned by the OP.
 
stoofa said:
If a company holds a trademark then ICAAN will usually rule in the companies favour.
If I wanted to, right now there are probably a few top-level country code domains available for microsoft.
It just wouldn't be worthwhile me registering them as they would eventually be taken away from me.
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Unfortunately pretty much every single one has been snapped up. Fortunately, in the name of irony, www.microsoft.tm is available :p :D
 
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