Domain NAME AND TRADEMARK

Lol how did we both come out with thin ice??!

You'd need to remove the registered trademarks from the domain-name. So that takes away "apple" and "itunes". Doesn't leave a lot, does it?

Yes - it's that. There are plenty of domains with trademarks available, but they're no use to anyone for any commercial purposes.

There are some purposes for which courts find it legitimate to use someone else's trademark in a domain-name, but they do tend to get tested in court sometimes (a lot of it's "precedent law") so this is for people with deep pockets. Those permitted uses also tend to exclude anything that involves financial gain/marketing.

Among the things that can and regularly do happen, when the trademark owner discovers such breaches of trademark, are:-

• They can tell you take it down
• They can take the domain from you
• They can take from you any money you've ever made through the site
• They can sue you for additional damages for flagrantly breaching their legal rights

Don't imagine that because "you're helping them to make sales" (as is often the case) they'll decide to be lenient. That isn't how it works. The point is that owning a trademark effectively confers obligations as well as rights on the holder: when it comes to trademark renewal time, if it can be shown that they've knowingly failed to protect their rights with regard to the trademark, that can be held against them. Some companies, for this reason, have the policy of pursuing all breaches of the trademark routinely and without reference to the motives/purposes/circumstances of the defendant.

Just one: if you're dead set on making money off of that trademark in the domain
name, be ready to deal with its trademark holder if they finally decide to take any
action against you. Depending on how lenient or aggressive they possibly are, do
not be shocked if that happens.

Nothing like intentionally doubling-down on a probable legal problem. Trademark owners really love it when you use their mark to promote other products.

Now you're also putting your Amazon and ClickBank accounts at risk.

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