Domain deal reports often include information about the purchase of names that clearly violate the rights of well-known brands. Experienced investors and market experts always warn against registering and purchasing such domain names. And yet, many take such risks. TLD Investors reveals the reason using the example of a specific domain name.
In January of this year, the MasterCard filed an application to register MasterCardBiz360.com. Registration of trademarks is a process that is, firstly, very slow, and secondly, quite transparent: applications are published by the patent office - including so that other potential applicants for the same trademark can submit their objections. But in this case, an enterprising domain investor drew attention to the application - and registered the domain name MasterCardBiz360.com back in February. Of course, if the trademark is registered, the payment system will file a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and will undoubtedly win the dispute. But not this enterprising domain investor: in July, he sold his domain for $4,995. And considering the cost of registration - about $10 - he received a pretty good profit.
Of course, one can only sympathize with the buyer of the domain - if he does not have time to sell the domain name profitably himself. This information itself should in no way be considered a call to register names that violate someone else's intellectual property rights. This is just a visual explanation of why such registrations still happen.
