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retired_member12

I agree, I should have clarified, I was referring to commercial use buttontop, non-commercials like the examples azooza highlights should be on safer ground!

Lee Black

So a trademark is pretty much across the board i.e inclusive of domains too.
Unless your intentions are not of a financial gain?

accelerator

A trademark protects a given name being used for a particular type of business, and yes, it will cover domains being put to use in that type of business too. Trademarks are specific to a particular class or service of business, and they will carry a lot of weight in domain disputes. If you as a non-trademark holder put the domain into use and contravened the classes of the trademark, most of the time you wouldn't have a chance in any dispute.

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Edwin

It's not even "financial gain". It seems that genuine protest sites (*sucks.com and the like) have been granted certain immunities (especially in the US with various free speech laws). But building a site on a domain incorporating a trademark on the subject of that trademark is genuinely a no-no even if you're not monetising it. And building a site on a domain incorporating a well-known trademark is a no-no for ANY reason (except genuine protest, but expect a letter from their lawyers sooner rather than later anyway)

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