tifosi

I hate typos. There, said it. I know they serve some purpose in traffic generation, But I just hate them & don't reg them.

Wondered on the viewpoint of others...

newbie

I have a lot of success from typos. I love'm!

retired member 1

What I don't get is "domainers" that say "Generic" typos are fair game, but TM'd typos aren't!

To me, the purpose of *any* typo is to steal traffic from another site (someone else's work), if that's generic or a TM'd site the aim is still the same.

grandin

Very interesting point and will bring it up with Nominet because I don' know the answer....I suppose it depends on which of the following two scenarios apply and therefore based on subjective abusive intent:-

Scenario One

If the generic word gets traffic cause its used in normal day to day life then I do not see a problem...cause you are taking advantage of a word that does not belong to anyone anyway...for example..holidays.co.uk

Scenarion Two

You notice that the owner of the name www.holidays.co.uk is using the name in extensive advertising so you wish to take advantage of that by reigstering a typo of it

I suppose scenario two is a no go but one is?

Lee

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Nigel

I cannot see the problem with reging generic typos. I would not knowlingly (I check TM register first) register a TM typo.

Misspelling is a fact of life. Does the .co.uk owner of a common generic word also have absolute right to every misspelling of that word. I don't think so and I suppose it is up to DRS decisions (and the like) to make a ruling on this if anyone disagrees.

I have just reged a .com of a misspell of a very common two word garden supply. In the first two weeks it hardly got a visit then on Saturday some decent traffic arrived because it got listed in Google. I don't believe the .com owner of the correct spelling has any right to this traffic - our domain is targetting a common misspelling of a common english word (and is actually offering a service to those people who have mispelled the word) so if there is no ruling saying such practice is wrong (has there been any DRS on this? or a .com ruling?) then it must be assumed that anyone is entitled to a misspell of a common generic word.

grandin

Hi Nigel...what do you mean 'garden supply'? do you mean a garden supplier or a garden item?

Lee

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Nigel

A Garden Item

olebean

Can we add a category "am i bovered!"

grandin

so....given its a garden item then lets assume this...

you register lawnmwoer.co.uk....and sell music downloads cause

www.lawnmower.co.uk also sold music downloads...then you would have a problem.

If you were both selling lawn mowers then no protection can be given to either party cause TM would not be issued on a name that is solely descriptive of the classification of trade.

However, this would be an intersting one....www.crocus.co.uk is a garden supplier so if you set up a mistype and sold garden goods this could be an infringement. However if you sold crocus bulbs under the mistype...i would say no infringement

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Nigel

Hi Lee

I would agree with your good examples and reasoning - I assume Nominet experts in a DRS would take a similar line but I don't whether it has been put to the test.