read this on another webmaster board:
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Hello,
One of a big sponsor abusing the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies of ICANN to farm niche domain names and type in traffic.
Anybody had an issue like this and have a first hand experience how the DNDR works?
My domain is a registered trademark in hungary (hard sex tube), logo is also a registered trademark. An another sponsor have 'sex tube' what is a registered trademark too. They are sent me a mail to transfer my domains asap to them, because i cybersquatting sextube.com. Actually, i have registered hardsextube.com way before they filled the trademark in the United States and in Canada. I know other persons who got mails like this, with the same issue.
sextube.com
hardsextube.com
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If you do a whois on sextube.com it shows that it belongs to Twistys. Remember the huge threads here when Twistys were taking heat for being in bed with tube sites? Looks like they are creating and huge network of their own tubes.
Anyway, the question i want to discuss: is it possible to trademark "sex tube" and then snatch similar names from other people? Seems pretty fucked.
