Remember, many domainers talk about trademarks but never actually apply for one, many talk about trademark infringement but only have a loose idea of what it really means (even the best lawyers can have this problem).

Take your blog for example. A blog I like to read. However if you think registering Dnundergound.net for domain names is in bad faith maybe it is – however bad faith is in the eye of the beholder especially with a name that has an acronym and as far as I can see no trademark attached to it or applied for.

DNunderground could stand for – Daytime News (underground), Denmark Nightclubs (underground), David Nash (underground) – any possible combination. Even in the domain world, without a trademark a “David Nash” could write about domain names and not legally step on your name.

Your comment was especially interesting since you said “Yes, typo domains are very popular, such as Gooogle.com or something like that, but taking another fellow domainer’s name/brand is just wrong”

Do you mean its ok to register a typo of a federally registered trademark but not ok to register the name of a blog which has no trademark??

Seems like a double standard to me.

Again, the point of the article was not to promote registration of these domains – it was to let industry bloggers know some of the domain extensions still available that relate to their brand … so they could register them.

Thanks for wonderful article – Jay

When it comes to one’s own name and alias, it DOES make sense to nab the major TLDs. I probably went overboard with “Ms Domainer,” but better to be safe than sorry.

Also, when the opportunity came up, I also bid on MsDomain.com and was able to acquire it, which I’m using as a portal page (no ads) to my main page. I thought maybe if someone set up a site on this domain, it might cause confusion for me (although someone else has the .net, but I’m not going to sweat that).

However, for general domaining and minor sites, I see no need to reg every TLD in sight. I’m more likely to reg the singular and plural dot com of a term that I think might have potential (and if it makes sense).

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I admit I was tempted to get
bestBLOGintheworld too but, I unfortunately
do not own the .com for this one.
(and I’m not a jerk )

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