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Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by thekyle »

CydeWeys wrote: post #41
saagarjha wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.

He never registered google.com. google.com is hard-locked at the registry level by Verisign and has very high security manual safeguards around any changes that are made to it. There was a temporary bug in Google Domains that made it appear as if he had bought google.com, but he had not.

I think it was GoDaddy not Google Domains.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by pselbert »

There is a service ran by ICANN called the “trademark clearlinghouse”. It is a subscription service that trademark owners, e.g. Netflix, can use to be notified of any domain that is registered and may infringe on their trademark. It even allows for wildcard patterns in ongoing searches.

How do I know this? Because i received a takedown notice regarding a domain I run to sell background job licenses (oban.dev). The business is entirely unrelated, but the clearinghouse alerting system still brought it to the trademark holder’s attention.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by jdsully »

pselbert wrote: post #162

There is a service ran by ICANN called the “trademark clearlinghouse”. It is a subscription service that trademark owners, e.g. Netflix, can use to be notified of any domain that is registered and may infringe on their trademark. It even allows for wildcard patterns in ongoing searches. How do I know this? Because i received a takedown notice regarding a domain I run to sell background job licenses (oban.dev). The bu…

Was it from the Oban distillery? Trademark issues aside they make a great whisky.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by colejohnson66 »

echelon wrote: post #94
fermienrico wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explosions of TLDs is bad!? Why?. It got rid of impossible to buy good sounding and short names, largely massive multi million dollar companies holding onto them. Explosions of TLDs literally has absolutely no downsides besides the security and phishing implications. It just wiped out the domain mafias and replaced it with a massive competitive marketplace.

Many of the gTLDs charge exorbitant yearly fees for "premium" domains as a means of recouping costs. I pay $300/yr for {myFirstName}.dev. It's extortion, and I might drop it. With many of the common domain suffixes now becoming TLDs, branding seems much more difficult since you have to buy multiple domains. Is it audiotech.com? audio.tech? tech.audio? Who knows. I don't think that I would call this better. My opinion…

> I pay $300/yr for {myFirstName}.dev. It's extortion, and I might drop it.

From where? Google? I just paid $12/yr for a .dev domain on Google Domains.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

tialaramex wrote: post #34
yarinr wrote: post #7

I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.

If they managed it for only $185k I'm impressed, maybe if you did several on the same infrastructure. It's a gold mine offering. There was a long queue of people quite sure that .binglebongle would be the new .com. Sometimes it was a marginally less stupid plan, like we can be a regional alternative - and Russia even has one that's actually making money - it isn't taking over the world, but it's Cyrillic and was neve…

I'm pretty pissed off that some TLDs went to the exclusive use of corporations. I really wanted a domain with .fox but its taken by the media corporation which doesn't use it for anything.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by BlueGh0st »

xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #15
saagarjha wrote: post #3

Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech (edit: google.page), google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries… More genera…

>Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech, google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries… It must have been a bug in Goo…

I have experienced this bug in Google Domains before (for non Google related domain names). Interestingly, it seems to particularly affect domains that are registered but unused.

This isn't isolated to Google Domains, however. GoDaddy's website let me go through the entire checkout process with 2 or 3 registered domain names, followed by a refund an hour later.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by tempestn »

kevin_nisbet wrote: post #157
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the expansiion of TLDs, this just means that apex domains of a TLD will still be subject to trademarks. google.pizza, google.yoga, google.keyboard will all be trivially easy for Google to claim trademark infringement for. So while it's cute that you can register "google.soy" -- if Google cares enough they'll take if from you.

I don't doubt google would attempt to do this, and probably win simply by being able to out resource an individual who registered the domain, however, my limited understanding of trademark law is this wouldn't necessarily be a valid claim. My understanding is trademarks are a protection against consumer confusion, so as long as companies aren't selling similar products or services, or competing in the same geography…

IANAL but I'm pretty sure those examples could still be trademark infringement. Since Google is a global company and brand, someone could easily assume since your site is called google.scuba or googlescuba.com, you are in some way affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Perhaps you'd be OK if you made it very clear that wasn't the case, but I wouldn't want to bet on it.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by dghughes »

gpanders wrote: post #100
amelius wrote: post #13

A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."

For anyone unfamiliar, this is a clever riff on a classic economics joke about the Efficient Market Hypothesis [1]. "Two economists are walking down the street and one of them notices what appears to be a $20 bill (or a $100 bill—the monetary amounts vary) on the sidewalk. “It’s not a real $20 bill,” the other economist declares. “If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already.”…

That reminds me of my father's advice when I wanted to buy a house. He said if the house was so good why hasn't anyone bought it yet.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by CydeWeys »

koheripbal wrote: post #153
quickthrower2 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the $20 bill in this case is a $-10 bill (or whatever the domain name costs), as there is no profit to be made by registering a top company's trademark as a domain name.

While it is an unwinnable case, there is a positive dollar amount to settling out of court.

No there isn't. Companies won't pay you money for having cybersquatted on their obvious trademark. You'll lose the domain flat out through UDRP.

The best outcome that can happen to you if you find yourself in such a situation is that you relinquish the domain name for free and nothing further comes from it.

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