You Tube ON SALE!!!!!!!! -- Real Domain -- Great Site !!! youtube.me.uk

you cannot copyright/trademark the english language, using the words you tube is not breach of trademark or copyright as long as he uses it for a legitimate site and does not have it purley as parked site, also some how i dont think google the owner of you tube is going to care about a me.uk domain seing as Google.me.uk has been registered by a non google party since 03-May-2007 and the owner of the domain has not even brought protection so his name and adress can be found via a simple who is search and they have taken no action to date so there is no reason why they will start suing over youtube.me.uk.

Also you are the legal owner of youtube.me.uk as you paid for it so dont worry mate HOWEVER the logo on there site will be copyrighted so dont copy the logo.

before some smart guy say go on buy it then dell trotter well i would buy it but i have no interest in a me.uk domain.

 

Again, google UDRP and delete that ridiculous post. ahhh newbies.

 

i know about udrp, and one of the main reasons a domain would be taken away from someone is if the domain name is being used in bad faith by the domain owner e.g if this guy uses youtube.me.uk as a clone of youtube or parks it then this could be classed as bad faith.

also from my original post

now who is search google.me.uk and see when it was registered and you will also see google does not own it, it is registered by a "UK Individual"
and google.me.uk has been redirected to sedo so could be classed as bad faith but still google has not taken it over so i dont think they will take action over youtube.me.uk, its only a .me.uk domain some how i dont think a big company like google is going to care about a .me.uk domain.

 

Lol, what a fake. Man you just done something illegal. Do you think you are the first one who thinks about this kind of domains. Really that domain is not legal.

 

below is more proof that it would be highly unlikely for google to attempt to take youtube.me.uk

i would just like to point out blogger.me.uk is not registered by google, it was registered on 29-Jul-2002 by some uk individual and blogger.me.uk has been parked, and google still have not taken action on it, the guy has owned it since 29-Jul-2002, this is over 6 years and still google has not taken action over blogger.me.uk.

blogger.org.uk has been registered since 26-May-2004 by someone in the uk.

blogger.biz was registered on 07 November 2001 by someone in the uk and is hosted on host gater

if google has not taken action on these i see no reason why they would even attempt to take youtube.me.uk

EDIT: just looked up googles domain gmail and guess what i found
gmail.me.uk was registered 22-Sep-2006 by some uk individual
gmail.org.uk was registered 01-Apr-2004 by some uk individual
gmail.biz was registered 02 Jan 2004 by some one in japan
gmail.info was registered 30-Oct-2001 by some one in japan

i cannot be bothered continue looking for domains which are the same as once owned by google but are not owned by google, i think i have made my point.

 

Seriously, people like you should not post on something they obvious have no experience in.

This domain has already been used in bad faith. You can't take that back. That is the key point here. The site has already infringe upon a trademark usage. You don't to say "sorry, I was caught, I will try something else".

This domain cannot be used for anything video related without being trademark infringement. Only a moron would argue otherwise. Even SEDO advertising links that infringe upon a TM holders usage have been grounds to take a domain. This isn't speculation, it's a fact.

Here's a video that will give you some basic information about trademarks. The person being interviewed is considered one of, if not the best, domain attorneys in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGyJx_9iSO4

 

mjewel my point was only of the fact that there is so many other domains which use the same words as domains owned google and some of the domains similar to google domains where registered back in 2001 and if google has not taken those there is no reason why they would suddenly take this guys site.

my other point is that the words, you and tube are not trade marked, the words youtube (one word) is but you tube is not and him having you tube on his site would not nessasirly be breach of trademark as long as he used the me.uk domain not in bad faith.

i dont want to get into an argument about this, everyone has there own opinions, lets see in a year or two's time if this guy has been sued i personally dont think he will because of all these other domains which are used in bad faith e.g parked and they have not been taken away from the owners.

 

Just to again point out your ignorance of TM law - if your domain was registered prior to the TM holders usage, the domain name cannot be registered in bad faith. Now research who holds trademarks on gmail and when they were established. Again, infringement often depends on usage.

Using your logic, if someone commits copyright infringement and nothing happens, they must assume it is ok to do so otherwise it would have been acted upon. Unbelievable.

 

Oh no, flaws in your theory again. Gee, if google had a problem with "youtub.ch" do you think they might have a problem with the op's domain? lol

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2007/dch2007-0010.html

 

mjewel look up udrp again and you will find out they can "ICANN decided a policy was needed so companies wouldn't be disadvantaged or held to ransom by members of the public who managed to register a certain domain name before the company got there."

it all depends on domain usage.

and i never said if someone commits infringement and it is not acted upon it is ok, i was just saying that google is not likely to sue when they have not sued on all these other domains.

and the reason youtub.ch was taken away way becuase of
"- CH 559081 (“You Tube” logo) on July 30, 2006.
- CH 559188 (“You Tube” logo) on July 30, 2006."

i dont want to get into an argument about this, everyone has there own opinions, lets see in a year or two's time if this guy has been sued i personally dont think he will because of all these other domains which are used in bad faith e.g parked and they have not been taken away from the owners.

However if google did email him requesting take over of the domain due to him using there logo (before he changed it) he would be wise to give it to them.

 

I think this thread needs to be moved, this isn't really the place to discuss this.

 

You have a serious comprehension problem. You cut and pasted from the Claimants list of trademarks, and tried to omit the wordmark CH 559078 (word mark) on July 30, 2006.

"Furthermore, Claimant takes the view that the Domain Names at issue are identical and/or confusingly similar to its trademarks in Switzerland. The Domain Names owned by Respondent, if at all, differ only in one letter from Claimant’s trademark and obviously attempt to take advantage of typing errors of Internet users."

While use of the logo wouldn't make the ultimate difference in this infringement case (the content/usage alone is enough) - the op was using the logo too. You can infringe by either content and/or similar logo.

 

yes mjewel the content and logo could be classed as a infringement/a clone and as i stated previously a clone could be classed as bad faith as i stated in post 23

Also i think everyone should stop arguing about the legalities of this domain as this is a domain auction not a place to disuss the legalities of this domain.

if someone wants to buy let them.

 

WHAAAAAT????? Why are you even arguing this?? You have absolutely no idea about UDRP rulings. All your points are 100% dismissible as soon as you read the domain name. Regardless of how he uses the domain, it was registered BECAUSE of YouTube.com which constitutes as TM infringement and BAD FAITH.

Simple look at all the suits Microsoft is filing in the past two months. If you make $1 off this domain name, you could get sued for $100,000 or more. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. I dont care if he uses the domain or not.

YOU MAKE ME LOL, Admin please close this thread.

 

Hey
LOL - Can we try and get back to the topic on hand....who wants to buy it! LOL!!!

Kev

 

This is a trademark. I personally know people who have used the word Digg (with other words at the end). They had to forfeit their domains because of trademark violation. This stems from a long time ago, when the internet first became very popular. People bought company's names with a .com at the end speculating that at some time the company would want to go online and would have to pay thousands to get this domain from them. If you use a company's name as your domain you stand to lose it if they request it, nothing that you can do. Google it if you don't believe me I'm too lazy to cite sources.

 

ok ok ok. everyone has put in their 2 cent worth. i think the guy was selling something not asking if it was legal, well thats what i got from his first post....

 

This domain can be interpreted in many ways

YouTube Me In Uk / YouTube Me / YouTube in Uk ...etc

Just don't use the word "youtube" single.

I hope you sell it, it's a sweet domain!
/jik

 

Yeah... this guy only registered the domain name because of the hugely successful YouTube, not because he liked the words "you" and "tube"

Wouldn't touch this with a barge pole