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Originally Posted by kristin
Right, as long as there is clear differentiation of the products there is no infringing. Or if he bought PornTubeXXX and promoted PornTube, then you are fine there too.
I just want to be clear I'm not saying PornTube is coming after this guy, I don't know if they would even care. I'm just giving a heads up on what has happened in the past and will happen again in the future with similar domain names.
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Actually, PornTube.com could come after you for using PornTubeXXX. I've had that happen with a certain sponsor over a domain that had their name it. of course, I was pushing their site. Problem was, my serps were far better than theirs.
The problem with porntubexxx.com is aligned with what you said above. The XXX doesn't modify the meaning of the domain words in a significant way. With "playboy", the word can be used in a prior definition, which of course is why Playboy is using it as their brand. With "porntube", there is no prior definition or usage, and it would be a really case to say you were using it in a way non-consistent with a porn tube site
We're actually on the same page - just talking about different aspects of it.
And yeah - who knows what the owner of PornTube.com would do.
One reason I probably wouldn't invest in a name with "mobile" tacked on, is that the future will see people building mobile capabilities into their main sites. The word "mobile", et al, will become superfluous. Just extra baggage and entirely unneeded. Except for possibly a pure SE play...
I have the same attitude about .mobi. In a few years, the devices will consume the regular web just fine, with some creative and graceful degradation of full blown browser code to mobile browser compatability.
For instance, my blackberry javelin browses web sites just fine using IE mode. Of course, the text is so freakin' tiny I need reading glasses to use it