New domain however I am afraid that....

So I opened a new domain: Theebooksgalore[dot]com
However if you take out "the" it directs you to a site that is for sale with that domain, and they may come after me for copyright/trademark reasons.

However this hasn't happened yet and I doubt it will.

What do I need to do?
Copyright / Trademark it if they haven't already?

Please Advise.

Thanks,
Jason

 

For a TM status to be active you have to claim USAGE. Parking a domain is not considered commercial usage. You have no worries.

 

I doubt you would have any problems. Someday if someone uses that other site and puts up a site that's in direct competition with yours then you might hear from them. It doesn't mean they can do anything.

 

Thanks guys.
You put my worries to rest.

 

No worries, however I would advice you to develop your site as soon as possible and maybe register it, just to avoid eventual future trademark issue's.

 

sydneyaus has a good point. If you can get your site on archive.org before the other folks then you at least have proof that your site was up and running before theirs