TradeMark Check on domain name

[sockul]

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Hello, i am currently choosing a domain name and before i actually go ahead in purchasing, i wanted to know how others went ahead in choosing the domain name and ensured the domain name is not protected by trademark. Is there also a way someone can advise if i need to have my domain name registered as Trademark?

Thanks for your time in reading this and looking forward for your advice and help.

[Digitonic]

Hi sockul, I'm a newbie here so I'm just sharing my views - perhaps other members might disagree with me!

We launched our first affiliate site earlier this year and we spent ages (probably too long) thinking about a domain. We looked for terms that had a high search volume for the industry, in the hope we might get lucky enough for an exact match domain being available but no such luck.

In the end we went for something close to exact match that suited our brand concept. Perhaps others might share their story?

In terms of trademarking and urls - any marketing person worth their salary will buy all urls associated with a trademark, or they are really asking for a headache. I used to work for a brand that only owned the .com version of their name as a domain, and the fights they had to go through to obtain the .co.uk and the .de etc was unbelievable. As far as I know, they still don't own them.

Even more incredibly, these 'squatters' were actually affiliates as there was no clause in the terms and conditions that stopped this. (Good on the affiliates I say!)

So to cut to the chase, if it's there, I'd grab it. Perhaps read through the T&C's of your targeted brands before you commit though.

Talk to you later,


Iain

[sockul]

Hi Iain, thanks for your response and your thoughts and comments i have already bought my domain after i checked the
Intellectual Property Office - Trade marks - find by mark text or image website.