Can trademarks be used in domains legally?
I was always under the impression that you can't use trademarked names in your domain such as "iPad" or "PS3." But then I see websites ranking for "ipad accessories" like ipadaccessories.com and ipadaccessoriesreview.com and then I just get more confused.
ipadaccessories.com has a disclaimer at the bottom but ipadaccessoriesreview.com doesn't, so I'm thinking that the latter doesn't look legal to me. However, I really am not very knowledgeable on these matters, so I wonder if someone can clue me in.
I also see tons of domains used for what are probably for promoting CPA offers for free iPods so they obviously have ipod in the domain. The question is whether that is legal or not though?
My biggest question is how can you legally use a trademark in your domain, since it's obviously being done a lot. You see those kinds of domains left and right on SE rankings.
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09-13-2011, 05:17 AM
