Under what circumstances will a domain name be arbitrated
What is domain name arbitration? Under what circumstances will it be arbitrated? Today, Xiaobian will tell you what circumstances will the domain name be arbitrated.
Under normal circumstances, if the domain name holder has the following acts, the trademark holder (or company and organization) will apply for arbitration.
- Malicious cybersquatting and improper use
Registering the corresponding domain name before the owner of an existing well-known trademark or a sign that has been exclusively referred to in public perception is called cybersquatting. Because of the uniqueness and exclusivity of the domain name , this behavior will result in the trademark owner not being able to obtain a domain name that matches the brand, thus forcing the trademark owner to redeem it at a high price. This behavior is defined in arbitration as malicious registration.
- Theft and imitation of domain names
That is, the usual typo domain names and prefixed and suffixed traffic domain names are also easy to be arbitrated in domain name arbitration. Because such domain names are highly similar to the corresponding trademarks, it is very easy to cause confusion and misunderstanding of the brand recognition by Internet users, which actually weakens the popularity of the original trademark. Such domain names will be defined as trademark misappropriation domain names.
- Conflict of rights domain names
Since the domain name itself is a kind of intellectual property rights, it has its own independence and uniqueness, and the principle of first serve, plus the characteristics that trademarks, trade names, and names can coexist in different fields, domain name rights and trademark rights, trade name rights, and names. Conflicts inevitably arise. This kind of situation is relatively complex and uncertain. In theory, any domain name has the possibility of conflict of rights.
In the above situations, the domain name will be arbitrated, so you can check whether your domain name meets the above situations.