Here is an odd one. Facebook filed a complaint with U.K. Internet authority Nominet over thefacebook.co.uk. The registrant Steven Cameron said he did not register the domain name or have anything to do with it.
According to an article on Bognor.co.uk, Mr. Cameron did offer to give Facebook the domain but Facebook refused it, opting for an official ruling from Nominet.
From the article:
Despite Mr Cameron’s protestations that he had not purchased the web address, Nominet expert, Patricia Jones, said he had ‘registered or otherwise acquired it’.
She added that Facebook is an ‘extremely well known’ trademark in the UK, where the network has more than 37 million active users.
“I consider it inconceivable that Mr Cameron was unaware of Facebook at the time of registration or acquisition of the domain name.”
And he had ‘chosen not to give any explanation’ of how he came to acquire or register it, she said.
The expert ruled: “I consider that he had Facebook firmly in mind when he registered or otherwise acquired the domain name.”
She concluded that the domain name was ‘an abusive registration’ in Mr Cameron’s hands and directed its transfer to Facebook Inc.
Another senseless udrp loss, ” The dog ate my domain,” would have been a better defense then, “I didn’t register it .”
Just so you know domain names ending with *.uk are not subject to the UDRP. Nominet, the .uk registry, has its own Dispute Resolution Service (“DRS”).
Thanks!
Of course, the brits have to be special 🙂
I understand why they wanted to make a statement but they did not have to, it has been done already. In my books not just the registrant but FB were moronic.
Does FB have a Trademark for Perfume ?
No
So you can get a TM for Perfume and use the domain
Guy,s
Wake up
There are 800 TM for Coffee
TM.s are nuts
I hope someday you will stand up and fight these
I do
@Mediclorainer,
Trademarks protect businesses, enabling brands to succeed instead of fending off parasitic imitators.
In my opinion, anybody who declares that all “TMs are nuts” is making the domain industry look bad – as if we were all a bunch of unscrupulous cybersquatters.
If you want to launch a brand of perfume called “Facebook”, be my guest! If it pleases you to think of that gesture as a crusade for social justice, well alright! Just please don’t stand next to the rest of us while smelling of “Facebook”-brand cologne.
Most of us respect trademark rights. Your stance undermines our efforts to improve public relations on behalf of domain investors.
you are absolutely wrong
a TM can kill your business
let me explain :
2010 i got the Idea for business
i invested 50.000euro
i went to an lawyer to get a TM ( 3 different ) i paid a lot
they told me not possible ( to general ) protection obstacle
so i registered the domains and invested more money and time because i believe in my idea
2102 the german olympic team started a campaign with the exact same slogan
they got a TM ( Thomas Bach is the president of the olympic games ) he is a parasite
the german olympic team is supported from the government by 150 million euro
we had a settlement
they told me i can use ,,my,, slogan ( Wir für Deutschland )
BUT
if i want print my slogan on stamps or whatever the post office told me i can’t because the olympic teams has a TM
so don’t tell me a TM is good
or important to save your business
a TM is just nuts
if you have a TM you want a monopol
btw
there are 467 results for the TM Apple and they are not all by the Apple computer company
so you tell me
https://www.namepros.com/threads/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-trademark.940977/#post-5481141
wake up
i fight the olympic team
i don’t respect any kind of TM
i don’t respect any kind of a King