I was doing a bit research on this. But couldn't get to the depth of it. I feel the information on ICANN website seems to be in a piece meal fashion. Can someone please simply it for the benefit of the community. I have some basic questions like: 1) Does trademark violation means the domain has the registered trademark? Can a company sue for having partial trademark terms? 2) What are the tld's supported for such violations. 3) If we have genuine interest in that domains, can we develop for something different? Even though its trademark of some one else. 4) Best trademark search engines. I still see lot of different tld domains on famous companies. And I also see sales of such domains. If some one could cut and slice to simplify these rules, it would be great.
1) A domain name can also (potentially) infringe an unregistered trademark (a.k.a. common law trademark), although one needs to demonstrate that. And yes. 2) CNOBI (Com/Net/Org/Biz/Info) at the very least. Each ccTLD (country code) has its own rules for such, though I imagine they're all similar to one another. 3) Yes to a point. The more unique and famous the mark like Google, Facebook, Pfizer, Shell, etc., the more difficult it'll be to use a domain name bearing that mark for something else. 4) Although there's no all-inclusive, all-encompassing trademark search engine, probably the closest thing to that is the big G itself.