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Originally Posted by MattGFY
Let's say you own the .com and .net versions of a domain. You owned the domains for over 10 years, and built them into a popular cam site. Then someone buys the .org version, and starts a whitelabel cam site. On the whitelabel they claim to be the .com version that you own. In their website description on all the pages, they claim to be the .com version, and in their meta data. Would this be legal?
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No one really "owns" a domain - they license it.
But you can trademark your proprietary monikers. eg: "MyOriginalCamParadise", "My Original Cam Paradise", and some try "MyOriginalCamParadise.ext".
If you have developed your trademark "MyOriginalCamParadise", then any attempt to register any domain ext with your trademark can be challenged.
Generally, removing dependency on an actual extension (.com, .org, .whatever) broadens your legitimate IP claim.
