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With this latest ACPA news, it makes me, a relative newbie in this business, feel a bit chilled. I own a US-based LLC, which I operate carefully, and it does other things besides buying domains, but still I feel slightly uneasy buying many more .com names no matter how carefully I check them out beforehand. Even if I check them out now, nothing prevents someone coming along in the future and getting a trademark and then suing the crap out of my company for ridiculous sums of money that I can't afford. In fact I worry there could eventually be a domain-equivalent of the RIAA that goes around at some point in the future auto-filing thousands of lawsuits and making a profit from it.
Perhaps it's better for a US company like mine to instead focus on purchasing foreign domains? Mine already also owns a bunch of .de names - is there some equivalent of the ACPA there in Germany? If not, would Germany then be considered a better environment at this point for domainers? I'm curious to hear opinions on what you think is the "safest possible" method to operate in this increasingly litigous time.
Perhaps it's better for a US company like mine to instead focus on purchasing foreign domains? Mine already also owns a bunch of .de names - is there some equivalent of the ACPA there in Germany? If not, would Germany then be considered a better environment at this point for domainers? I'm curious to hear opinions on what you think is the "safest possible" method to operate in this increasingly litigous time.