Am I allowed to use this domain?
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Hi all. I'm relatively new to internet marketing (6 months) and I recently ran into problems with domain names.
About a month ago I decided to promote a company's products (let's just say Microsoft as an example) and registered a domain like "microsoftreviews.com", which was available. The website was naturally about Microsoft products. Although I'm not affiliated with Microsoft, I am affiliates of several retail websites.
So for the past month I created contents, SEOed, and built links. But just as I started seeing traffic, a affiliate manager from one of the websites told me that Microsoft complained about my domain name. He threatened to cut the network relationship if I can't shut the site down. I have since moved the site to a more generic domain.
I admit that it was stupid to use (hypothetically) Microsoft's trademark in my domain. I thought they wouldn't mind as I was selling their products anyways.
My question now is, can I forward the traffic from the old domain to the new one so I can recover some of my hard work? If I do, can they sue me for copyright violations? Technically, it isn't domain squatting as I'm not seeking others to buy my domain. The visitors simply see the new url and website when they click on "microsoftreviews.com". I intend to stop the forwarding once Google realizes the two websites are the same thing.
About a month ago I decided to promote a company's products (let's just say Microsoft as an example) and registered a domain like "microsoftreviews.com", which was available. The website was naturally about Microsoft products. Although I'm not affiliated with Microsoft, I am affiliates of several retail websites.
So for the past month I created contents, SEOed, and built links. But just as I started seeing traffic, a affiliate manager from one of the websites told me that Microsoft complained about my domain name. He threatened to cut the network relationship if I can't shut the site down. I have since moved the site to a more generic domain.
I admit that it was stupid to use (hypothetically) Microsoft's trademark in my domain. I thought they wouldn't mind as I was selling their products anyways.
My question now is, can I forward the traffic from the old domain to the new one so I can recover some of my hard work? If I do, can they sue me for copyright violations? Technically, it isn't domain squatting as I'm not seeking others to buy my domain. The visitors simply see the new url and website when they click on "microsoftreviews.com". I intend to stop the forwarding once Google realizes the two websites are the same thing.
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