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Old 03-03-2009, 05:21 PM  
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Even if a company owns a federally registered trademark, someone else may still have the right to the domain name. For example, many different companies have federally registered the trademark Executive for different goods or services. All of these companies may want www.executive.com but the first one to purchase it"in this case, Executive Software"is the one that acquired the domain name and has the rights to it. If it is an active domain, getting traffic with content, ICANN will usually side with the domain owner. Furthermore, most of these cases are handled by arbitration.
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