I have a domain in this fashion: 'computer brand'-notebook.com dell-notebook.com apple-notebook.com hp-notebook.com sony-notebook.com (examples) Can I put Adsense on these sites, or does this violate one of Adsense's TOS? I quickly browsed Adsense TOS, but didn't find any violations.
https://www.google.com/adsense/supp...&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&medium=link you infringe on someones trademark. it is best not to use a trademark in the domain. you can be sued. content on site, you can change. a domain, they can take.
zodiac is right; you're likely to get yourself in trouble by making commercial use of someone's trademark like that. At minimum, you're risking getting your hosting terminated, worst case a lawsuit lands on your doorstep. Remember, these corporations have armies of lawyers on salary, and they won't hesitate to defend their trademarks. As a point of law, they're required to do so in order to avoid losing the trademarks.
So one cannot use any of the above examples for a blog and/or forum that talks about those notebooks, and put Adsense on the site?
well it depends. you will see many sites that use adsense on orkut related website. Orkut is a trademark of Google Inc. for eg. 123orkut.com, orkutuncle.com, orkutstyle.com, orkutplus.blogspot.com etc etc. there are many.
If you're doing a review on notebooks, it's okay to use the brand name in your posts. If your domain name itself makes use of a trademarked term, that's not okay. That is the kind of behavior that results in lawsuits related to "confusingly similar use in commerce" court cases.