Quote:
Originally Posted by cherrylula
So can you explain why there are already sites running on .xxx that are not the trademarked owner of the domain name?
And why there are already sites auctioned off to people before the landrush date? How does that work?
I think these "sunrise" periods are pretty shady gray area considering people are already acquiring xxx domains. gay? shemale? someone owns the trademarks to those? Please explain.
All the info you can give us here in gfy will help. I wanted to register a domain already but when I read that I was not guaranteed the name I declined. Now I just don't know if I even want to having seen what has gone on prior to the landrush.
Congrats to those who got nice domains already, but some of us still have questions. I look forward to your answers! Thanks!
|
It would take pages to give a full explanation, because first we would have to cover trademarks in general. A layman's single sentence summary would be, everyday common words, cannot be trademarked. (And that is really an overly broad statement, because there of course, are a few notable exceptions. - If you're really interested, email me, and I'd be happy to share a site with you that does a good job of explaining it.)
You may still have an opportunity for your chosen name during landrush. Only about 5-10% of available names go to auction, and those are closed auctions, only between those that have applied for the name during landrush. So if you look on buy.xxx for cherrylula.xxx for example, and it says 'available' - you can apply to buy it. if no one else has applied for it - it's yours. If one other person has applied, only you and that other person go to a closed auction for the name. But really, what are the chances that someone else will try to buy cherrylula.xxx?