Greetings I'm sick and tired of this.... In these days when you try to find a good domain it is always registered to the damn network solutions. When you visit the site there is nothing but a landing page with shit. This is unacceptable, i don't want to pay these bastards to get a domain that i want. We need some international laws about domain registering. A good law would be that you can't just reserve domains to sell them. You need to actually have content on the site, not just landing page with shit. Something needs to be done about this. These trolls are taking all the domains in the market and then they try to get the last penny off you. I found a perfect domain for my self that is not that valuable and they want 15000$ for it. I was thinking about registering trademark with the domain name at their home country and then sueing them to get the domain. Would this work? I have good use for the domain, and i will build a big commercial site on it. I don't mind the expenses i can use that 15000$ to sue them, it's not the money that much, just the fact that this is unfair and i refuse to pay them. If there would be small private site there, i could pay the owner 20k for the domain, no problem... BUT NOT TO THAT BLOOD SUCKING NETWORK SOLLUTIONS LLC. So how should i proceed? Sir. Turhapuro
There will never be a law about this.. and I don't think it is unfair at all. Why is it unfair, because they registered the domain before you could? :-\ I don't think you can take the domain since it already been registered before you registered the trademark....
You won't win the lawsuit, first off. If they own the domain before your trademark is registered, they own all rights to the domain name, simply because they "copyrighted" the name first (via domain name). You'd still have the trademark, just not the domain. Total waste of money in the end.
Especially when you've got different and competing interests involved. If any of you are wishing for such a "law", you can keep talking and dreaming all you want. Among the 7 domain names I have, only 2 have active websites. The rest are for projects I'm working on. So because I'm not urgently required to put something up, I'll forfeit them? Uh no, I don't appreciate anyone telling me to fork 'em over just because I don't meet someone else's expectations. Is the domain name indeed registered to Network Solutions, not with them? It could be someone else is using netsol's privacy thing. Personally I have no sympathy for such people who take such a view. But I do respect it anyway, and am playing along just for the sake of discussion and a bit of possible education.
I fully agree with Dave, the early bird catches the worm, and if you think about it, and by that I mean pretend a law like that could ever happen, you are basically saying "you can't make money off of this because I want to", this is just free trade and it's what makes business work. Also, it is a slick thought to try a trademark, but the domain is already owned so you'll never get it approved.
as upsetting as it is, there really isnt much you can do about it. the best approach with these domain parking vultures is simply refusing to pay for the domains. the reason organizations like that are successful is because there is a market with people willing to pay those prices. arguably it would be more equitable if there were limits to the number of domains an individual or corporation could own, but it's far too late for anything like that to be implemented.
A limitation like that is pretty easy to get around. But yes, it's far too late to implement anything like that. It's like a 2-year old who wants another 2-year old's toy that doesn't belong to him. Some people haven't outgrown their childish behavior.
So is the fact you get a domain name online with content the same as copyrighting? I don't understand, help.
Network Sollutions was one of the first, if not the first domain registrar, that's why most of the early registered good domains are with them. Some domainers saw an opportunity in the early days and took a punt. What's wrong with that? Whilst I agree it can be annoying, especially if you want to develop the domain and make the internet a more useful place, but you have to keep in mind these domainers probably have hundreds of names in their portfolio and it isn't practical to develop all their domains, hence they just try and profit from reselling and parking.