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Old 02-06-2015, 03:28 PM  
AntonMG
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Originally Posted by JustDaveXxx View Post
Thats what I was thinking. But I have a friend that had this situation with a monster online company where he bought the domain name, shot up a site around it.

The company he was at odds with went out and trade marked the name months after the site launched. When he came came to negotiations to exit the company, he had to pay out 75K for the trade mark transfer and ownership.


I know this happened for a fact! And I cannot reveal the players and companies involved.So please don't ask!! I absolutely know this went down!!


With what I have seen go down in the past, is why I'm asking what I'm asking.


Just Dave
I am no expert, but I think the fact that you use the website for something has its importance as well. If you don't use it for anything I think it falls under "cybersquatting".
I remember a time when whitehouse.com was a porn site.
I'm pretty sure the 'merica gov did all they could to get it back or at least get rid of the porn content.
It's now a parked domain.

Fun fact: the domain has been blocked from the wayback machine: Internet Archive Wayback Machine
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