Trademark domains can cause a lot of headaches to even the most seasoned domainers!
Why, oh why, oh why?
We’ve been witnessing this quite often lately:
Seasoned domainers aspiring to get domains that are obvious trademarks.
What is an obvious trademark?
Something that looks like a word made up from putting two words together.
It takes less than a minute to look up such terms at the USPTO.gov – the US Patent and Trademark Office.
So uber-domainer Frank Schilling – who wrote a very popular blog post the other day – has gone in the past after NameJet domains that are obvious trademarks.
We wrote about one such case in the past, Americar.com
This time around, ultra-popular Frank lost the battle over a trademark domain, as he came in second at NameJet. The winner of this obvious trademark violation bid $797 and thus got Toymax.com
Frank Schilling bid $10 less and spared himself the headaches of owning yet another problematic domain – with no less than 4 registered trademarks at the USPTO!
Sometimes, losing the battle makes one a winner! 😀
