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Warning: Your Domain Name Could Infringe On Trademark
Rights! By Al Martinovic

Domain Hosting If you have or are about to purchase a domain name, YOU
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but on-line as well and they even apply to domain
names.

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Cheap Web Hosting Now, a trademark generally applies to goods where as a
servicemark applies to services. For the purpose of
this article I will refer to trademarks as the same
rules apply.

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services from one person or company from that of
another.

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Web Hosting Domains The purpose of a trademark is to prevent confusion in
the eyes of the consumer relating to particular goods
and services. Basically, they are in place to prevent
unfair competition.

Web Hosting Domain Names So with that said, just because you purchased a
particular domain name it does not necessarily mean you
have exclusive rights to it.

Domain Name Registration If there is a trademark in your domain name, the mark
owner has a legal right to send you a "cease and
desist" letter and possibly take that domain name away
from you.

Hosting Web Hosting If you don't believe a word I've said so far then I
offer myself as proof because it happened to me. I
recently lost one of my domain names under this exact
same circumstance.

Web Hosting Plans For legal reasons I can't tell you the domain name as I
agreed to make no further references to it, but there
were two words in my domain name that were associated
with a trademark.

Web Hosting Business Now, I wasn't aware of this when I purchased the domain
name. And I definitely wasn't aware of trademark laws.

Web Hosting Email Don't be ignorant on the subject like I was. You can
avoid any potential problems by educating yourself and
thereby preventing the samething from happening to you.

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Web Hosting Comparisons Do your research before you buy a domain name and make
sure there is NO trademark associated with that name.

Affordable Web Hosting There are trademark search engines where you can type
in a word or a phrase and it will tell you if it is a
trademark.

Web Hosting Package You can visit the United States Patent And Trademark
Office (USPTO) website to do a trademark search:

Web Hosting Provider http://www.uspto.gov/

Multiple Domain Web Hosting Now, in my case I chose not to fight the trademark
dispute and gave up my domain name voluntarily. I felt
it just wasn't worth the time, money and headaches to
launch a fight over this.

Domain Web Hosting If this should ever happen to you, you do have rights
and there are proper channels to go through to settle
the dispute. Contact a lawyer who specializes in this
field.

Web Hosting Providers And don't even think for one minute that this sort of
thing can't happen to you. Trust me. If you have a
trademark in your domain name it is only a matter of
time before you get that letter in the mail like I did.

Unix Web Hosting There are numerous cases all over the internet
concerning disputes over trademark and domain names.

Web Hosting Php Don't you be one of them...

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Linux Web Hosting This article and any links associated with it are for
informational purposes only and not intended as legal
advice. As always, speak to an attorney who specializes
in this field in the event of a dispute.

Low Cost Web Hosting Al Martinovic is the publisher of the Millenium
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