Threat of ASA complaint and DRS

dragon · Jan 31, 2013

Caught a domain late last year and had a random email from a hotmail account asking if i wanted to sell for low £xxx, I declined and said don't really want to sell but would for £x,xxx..
Next day or two, I got an email from director of company which is the same name as the domain.
Just wondered what others think about this? I can send the name via pm.

stellar73 · Jan 31, 2013

Do they have a live trademark on the term and if so what class is the trademark in? ie is it in a class which includes the type of content you have on your site?

Even if they don't have a trademark, is their name (and the domain name) so specific that a regular man in the street would automatically associate it with their company to the exclusion of anything else? (in other words would anyone on this forum - if they heard what the name was - assume you had made a bad faith registration?) If this is the case then I would imagine you may have to defend yourself...difficult to gauge without knowing the name though!

Obviously make sure there are no Adsense links on your site that would like in with their line of work and cause confusion (and be interpreted as you profiting from their 'good name' etc)

dragon · Jan 31, 2013

stellar73 said:
Do they have a live trademark on the term and if so what class is the trademark in? ie is it in a class which includes the type of content you have on your site?

No trademarks at all.

stellar73 said:
Even if they don't have a trademark, is their name (and the domain name) so specific that a regular man in the street would automatically associate it with their company to the exclusion of anything else? (in other words would anyone on this forum - if they heard what the name was - assume you had made a bad faith registration?) If this is the case then I would imagine you may have to defend yourself...difficult to gauge without knowing the name though!

Possibly tbh. Will pm you the name and you can see for yourself

stellar73 said:
Obviously make sure there are no Adsense links on your site that would like in with their line of work and cause confusion (and be interpreted as you profiting from their 'good name' etc)