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An example of the type of domain I am talking is cleanwheels.co.uk (incidently free to reg) or bodytonics.co.uk (already mine so keep off!) - with two generic words which combined give a very good picture of what the service / products is that is being offered. Not as generic as say using orange.co.uk for phones or tomato.co.uk for computers. I hope that this puts it in perspective.
I did check and there is, filed under class 41, the following text relating to the application.
"providing on-line electronic publications (not downloadable); publication of
electronic books and journals on-line; information relating to entertainment or
education provided on-line from a computer database or the Internet; electronic games services provided by means of the Internet; education services"
so from this could they claim that they need the domain name to be able to provide the service?
In theory, does this mean that say a company can legitimately create a new range called Body Tonics - file for a trademark to sell their both their product / services on-line which may/may not get opposed by the domain registrant (at a considerable cost but first you got to notice that is has been submitted) and then chase me down for the domain name as a violation of the trademark if I try to sell anything remotely like a health related product through my site/domain?
Lastly, if the domain is currently parked on sedo - does this constitute a legitimate use of the domain?
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