Xfactor Vs trademark infringement

[simonheng82]

To date, i have received 3 trademark infringement warning notice from the company. They asked me to transfer the domain to them at no cost. Of course, i do it immediately once i verified the email source.

Anybody having same warning from the company in which you are using their name in your domain?

By following xfactor method, i am just afraid that the time that i put in will eventually the site to be brought down due to the trademark issue. Considering to build bigger site with no trademark name in the domain in the future....

Simon

[NiyazK]

what kind of trademark issue ? Did you use a brand name in your domain ? Please explain

[unlimitedwealth]

That is the risk of playing with micro niches with trademarks in the domain name.

There are many other buying keywords which you could consider. I was tempted as well to try trademarked keywords, but decided not to because of such eventuality. Better safe than sorry. Else all efforts down the drain.

[jasonmorgan]

if you mess with trademarks and copyrights you should always expect that losing the site is a possibility.

here is your game plan if you intend on staying with that niche

1. get a new domain
2. copy the content from the old site to the new site
3. delete the content on the old site
4. 301 redirect the old domain to the new site
5. all of the work, backlinks and traffic going to your old site will now be automatically forwarded to your new site. it's not a total loss.
6. sit tight and wait. I wouldn't give them the domain until they get legal.
7. the old domain would now fall into 'domain squatting' territory and I'm not sure they can get it from you since it is no longer an active domain.You'd have to research that on your own.

[Underground SEO]

just always try to target keywords that don't specifically mention a companies name - then you'll be fine, they are plenty of other keywords to target.

[actionplanbiz]

samething happen to me. i had a registered trademark name in my domain name. but they just told me to remove it from public access. and it did it immediately.

[simonheng82]

Originally Posted by NiyazK

what kind of trademark issue ? Did you use a brand name in your domain ? Please explain

Yes, i use brand name/company name in the domain....

Hi actionplanbiz, this is what i did, i immediately remove the domain...

I mean, this business plan can be profitable, but you hold a certain level of risk. I am now concentrating in building affiliate site and site flipping, will be leaving the built xfactor type of site and let it grow by itself until i got the letter again

Simon

[jasonmorgan]

just always try to target keywords that don't specifically mention a companies name - then you'll be fine, they are plenty of other keywords to target.

you can go after any keywords you want.

the trademark issue is with the domain name.

you can't have disneytoys.com but you can do whatever style of SEO suits you in pursuit of the keywords disney toys.

disney can't stop you from spamming every blog on the planet with the keywords 'disney toys' but they can take away a your domain if it has the word 'disney' in it.

[bay37]

Originally Posted by jasonmorgan

disney can't stop you from spamming every blog on the planet with the keywords 'disney toys' but they can take away a your domain if it has the word 'disney' in it.

This.

Just make sure that your domains do not contain any trademarked terms/words. It is really easy to do as there are thousands of generic domain names still available (such as kidtoys, kidstoys, latestkidtoys, etc).

[ninal]

It's always tempting to use brand names within domain names but after reading so much about trademark infringement, I just completely stay away from them.

[Kay King]

By following xfactor method,

That's not what is recommended in that method. John uses product names and when he mentioned using trademarked brands he points out what can happen. He says he has gotten by with using a few such domains but doesn't recommend that as the only way to go.

Almost all of the niche names suggested in his ebook are product - not brand - names.

In fact, one of the brands he specifically mentioned made me laugh - and pm him - because I know from personal experience that company strictly protects its trademark. I was asked to remove a page on a site where the brand was mentioned in the title of an article.

One fact that is not mentioned is that the "numbers" found when using a search of a brand name may look great. High search - low competition, etc. BUT - the reason for that is the company does not allow the name to be used by others ....which limits the competing sites to those authorized to use the brand name. It skews the numbers.

kay

[misterkailo]

Lol I kept warning people to stop using name brand domain names, but they would always tell me, "but I have been doing this for over half a year and I have yet to get a notice of infringement..."

[JMartin]

Play with fire at your own risk.

I think it's unfair to label this as someone's method, since this practice has been going on for eons. He has talked about using product.com/net/org/etc before, but he also said it could go bye bye (which you should know).

A "devil's advocate" way to look at this is to do it, put little work in it, profit, remove, repeat. Of course if you have trouble making money, this isn't the best strategy.

Think of big companies (Apple as an example). They infringe all the time. They go to court and then they pay up handsomely for doing it. So what do it? Because the profit is bigger than the cost.

I'm not advocating this, just looking at the plate of food from all vantage points.