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What you are discussing in this thread is the beginnings of what is going to happen more and more as big business wakes up to the fact that it cannot register the domain it WANTS and will then try and get that domain. I registered a number of domains in 1999 and now see that in the past 6 months 2 parties have applied for TM's not only for their own "business" but also including, and this is one everyone needs to look out for, the Class of TM that includes operation of a website. THAT class is the one that is going to be taken advantage of I think. All "they " need to do is get a TM unopposed and then enforce that TM because you are running a web site of any sort on that domain name. The alternative is paying hundreds of pounds, and time and effort, each time someone applies for a TM for a domain you happen to have.
DG
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