Hello, I was sitting at a friends drinking beer, and he really enjoyed the beer. Tried to goto the website on the bottle to check it out and it didn't work. Instinctively I checked and the domain wasn't registered! I grabbed it, and currently have it on a 0 sec http refresh to the correct site. Really doing them a favor right now. Now, this domain could be worth a lot to the company. They have it on thousands if not a lot more of beer bottles. I'm wondering what options people think I have. I want to avoid any legal issues that could arise, but don't want this to be a waste of time for me.... Thanks
If the domain has their name or any trademarked tagline, they could take the domain from you due to copyright infringement. If that's the case, I suggest selling it really quick on ebay to somebody who doesnt know any better. I once owned a .com which was the EXACT tagline of one of the largest beer manufacturers in the world and quickly sold it for $200 before I received some legal letter in the mail.
Sell it to the marketing company that screwed up the campaign. Is the domain the beer co's name like budwieser.com OR One of those stupid names that everyone is using like "grap-a-18-pak.com? EDIT: Is the domain getting any traffic?
From what I've heard it would be okay if I owned the domain, but didn't attempt to profit from it. But that is why I came here. The domain is: namebrewing.com, which I found on a beer bottle. The actual site is namebrewery.com. No real traffic. I've since wrote them an e-mail letting them know the current situation, and am awaiting a response. I'm curious as to how this will play out.
Is it a private labeling brewing company (like the companies that make cheap Vodka and put whatever name you want on the label)?
Na it's a local brewery where I am. I imagine it was a typo/misprint on the bottle that caused this. There's no way they would put a website that wasn't registered on their beer bottles. After watching traffic, it seems there's nearly no traffic. So this very well may be useless.
NO, they can't. They fooled you on that mail. If the company is base for example in UK they still got an option using .uk instead of .com in their domain.
This is becoming some sort of strange fad under the "Legal Issues" forum You go out and purposely register an infringing domain and then post here asking us what we think It's the same replies in every thread and it's becoming bit annoying since it's filling up this entire section now
I know what you mean. But...let them do what they feel like, and they might learn a good lesson. Unfortunately for them, someone might hold them liable for their actions.
Honestly it's Worthless Are you buying your beer online? You don't even got the exact name of the company
Good luck in Court, now they have reason to sue you, never write a letter or eMail to trademark holders, let them contact you, and never name a price let them do all the work.
You have been told wrong. What you are doing is called domain squatting and if your intent at the time of registering the domain was to sell it to or extort money from the company with financial interest in the domain they can take it from you lickety split. Your best bet would be to transfer the domain to them and hope they send you a free case of beer.
When I said I sent them an email, what I did was wrote them the situation, and offered the domain to them. They don't seem interested in it at all. Oh well, it's a cool domain anyways, and currently my favorite beer.
Just try selling it out some where, frankly speaking this domain is worthless. Better sell quickly to some one Good Luck