I have two domain names with me with high search volimes: wemolightswitch.com wemoswitch.com Since they are Belkin products, do you guys it would be worth while to sell these domains names to Belkin. Do you think they would be interested? If so then can anyone guide me how to contact them or rather who to contact.?
"wemo" is trademarked by belkin. Run a trademark search at uspto.gov. If you send them an email, expect a cease and desist order. Better get refund on those domains
it's really up to belkin what you can do with them. I mean the domains are ultra specific to the products they're selling, so if the site is going to be about and/or selling belkin products, than that's infringing on their trademark. I would honestly just get a refund while you still can...if you still can. No point in wasting time on a website only to have it pulled down. If you want to sell light switches...lol.. than get a generic keyword domain with light switches, and you'll be good to go.
If they were just wemo you could rebrand them - trademarks only relate to similar products so if you did a site about wemo fertilisation systems (your own invention) they couldn't do anything. But wemolightswitch makes it very clear you intended to cybersquat.
but wouldnt I technically be helping them make sales as the website would only be featuring Belkin products...this is all too confusing to me...To me logically, I would only be 'cybersquat'ing if I were to feature my own products under a established trademark...its not like ill be posting my own products...I was thinking something along the line of Amazon Associate website dedicated for Wemo... as for me selling light switches......to tell you the truth I have seen more success selling cheaper products than selling ones that are expensive because people tend to buy them in bulks and without many second thoughts...
cybersquatting is ripping other people off who have already put the work in to develop there business. wouldn't you be happier with yourself if you didnt? Honestly, domains don't do a whole lot for seo. If your dead set on wemo products, that keyword stuff the f' outta the site. just pick a generic light-switches.org, and there you go.
It's cyber squatting because you've bought it to deliberately feed off another company's name and reputation. That would be very generous of you to promote belkin products so selflessly - except that you still intend to earn affiliate or dropship revenue from the site - and the site gets an artificial boost by using the trademarked name. You will be accused (rightly or wrongly) of trying to deceive customers into thinking they are on an official belkin site.
Have you actually bothered to read up on UDRP and wilful trademark infringement? It doesn't seem like it; you need to wake up to reality and do so. Try justifying it to yourself however you want, but your excuses won't fly with WIPO. The TM and these domains are far too specific to even put up content completely unrelated.
perhaps you would like to contact them and tell them you have these domain names and would like to promote their products too. Work out some form of commission based proposal/collaboration ?
He's in Pakistan so the laws will be slightly different there. I'm not sure how it all works when the plaintiff is in one country and the defence is in another.
For UDRP, it wouldn't matter. They wouldn't even require a response from the accused. Country and local laws would only matter for suing.