Who cares if it is against their tos so to speak. They won't do anything. ebayhosts.com won their lawsuit with ebay because they dont have a capital b so I could do similar. Don't flame my thread, I want an appraisal!
That is incorrect. Now if you go to their site. www.apple.com, their product is iPhone, iPod, and etc. I do not have a large p, it is all the same case letters. Sorry buddy, now get OUT! iPod® - see the capital p view list: http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html
It depends on what you do with the domain. Someone made fedexclothing.com, went to court, and won because their intention was not to handle shipping. If you move into the iPod market for Apple iPods, you're definitely looking at a lawsuit. Otherwise, you're fine.
So you think if I were to make this a blog about iPods with permission from iPod (not sell any products or anything), I could sell it for $xxx, xxx?
Link to the court decision? While I don't believe it (lower case is BS), "hosts" implies a business other that eBays usage so they might have a argument if they used it for hosting and nothing associated with auctions. "town" is a generic term and it is, without a doubt, trademark infringement. Write Apple and ask them.
I don't know if they post every trademark ruling online! It was in court for about 7 weeks till the judge ruled it's legal because it's not a capital b
That sounds like a bs story and if you have nothing to support the claim, I'll consider it false. Upper/lower case has NOTHING to do with the Apple trademark. They trademarked the four letters and it doesn't matter if they are any combination of upper or lower case letters. Any domain name that uses IPOD or ipod is going to be infringement, period.
I'm not sure about apple but with ebay they had eBay as trademark that is why ebayhosts.com successfully made $20k last year and had pr6