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Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com

June 9, 2014 by Michael Berkens

As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names.

As usual we do not point out typo’s but mostly domain names that seem to be right in the wheel house of a trademark holders.

Trademark holders have been complaining (and rightly so) about the cost of defensive registrations when it comes to new gTLD’s but these domains are all .com and many have traffic.

All of these domains were owned by someone other than the trademark holder and dropped and could have been picked up by the trademark holder if they pursed the domain in the drop.

Instead of the trademark holder registering these domains when they dropped, third parties, picked up the domain names in the drop and almost all of them are going to a parked page:

microsoftsoftware.com

xeroxcopiers.com

golfnike.com

ughboots.com

rolandpianos.com

vzwwireless.com

disneyclubs.com

invisilinebraces.com

pradaclothes.com

paypalmoney.com

frigidairedishwasher.com

microsoftproductkeys.com

whirlpoolrefrigerators.com

farmersinsurancebillpay.com

ralphlaurenwomen.com

dellauctions.com

boschdishwasherrepair.com

cheapmicrosoftsoftware.com

cbsoffice.com

yamahapianosale.com

microsoftstorage.com

seminolehotel.com

neworleanssaintsfootballteam.com

jblsubwoofer.com

cbsbooks.com

Filed Under: Domains

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Tony Lam says

    June 9, 2014 at 10:26 am

    Invisaligndentist.com dropped the other day. I backordered it b/c I am a dentist that offers that service. I was actually outbid for $74. I am pretty sure the new owner isn’t an “invisalign dentist”. Too many crazy newbies out there now.

    • cmac says

      June 9, 2014 at 3:23 pm

      wouldn’t it be worth more than $74 to someone who does that for a living?

      • Tony Lam says

        June 9, 2014 at 3:24 pm

        No. I am an end user…

      • KDomainNames says

        June 9, 2014 at 11:03 pm

        I’d be careful buying these domain names… You don’t know why they dropped and perhaps they carry penalties with them??

        Or it could be they found nicer ones with the new extensions that are coming out..

  2. DomainOtto says

    June 9, 2014 at 10:32 am

    I think the Q would be why Forbes top 200 enterprises do not have people that actually make sure they control their web interests before the new gTlds reach GA. sammons.enterprises parked. jmfamily.enterprises parked. I think they should have the money to secure their own domains before GA.

  3. evaluator says

    June 9, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    Mike your ticker or my laptop doing strange bouncing around, blurry and stopping?
    LOL Prob. that XYZ Joke screwing it up

  4. Michael Berkens says

    June 10, 2014 at 12:59 am

    evaluator

    Looks fine to me, what browser are you viewing it on?


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