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"Olympic" domain issue, help needed
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<blockquote data-quote="Ategy" data-source="post: 2299688" data-attributes="member: 322971411"><p>"Olympic" is a very special mark. It has even more rules/laws protecting it than standard trademarks. While it always depends on the specific domain and circumstances, chances are very likely that the domain is unusable.</p><p></p><p>The only real companies that can use Olympic are those that are grandfathered before 19??. There's also a particular region of NorthWestern USA (part of Washington State I think) where the term is allowed because the geographic region includes the word Olympic or Olympus (or something close to that). Even then I think the usage is restricted to within that geographic area.</p><p></p><p>If the domain was useful to the IOC .. then they'd just take it from you. Thei enforce their marks so heavily I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even pay $1 for a domain that included "Olympic" just for the simple fact of not creating a (non-legal) precedent in having people think it's ok to grab Olympic domains with the intent of reselling them to the IOC.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I wouldn't stress out too much. Just make sure you don't have any advertising on it and that it's not listed for sale anywhere .. then just let it expire. You can also just delete it as well if you want. While it's impossible to say without knowing the exact domain, chances are it's both worthless and useless because of the extra restrictions on the "Olympic" mark.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ategy, post: 2299688, member: 322971411"] "Olympic" is a very special mark. It has even more rules/laws protecting it than standard trademarks. While it always depends on the specific domain and circumstances, chances are very likely that the domain is unusable. The only real companies that can use Olympic are those that are grandfathered before 19??. There's also a particular region of NorthWestern USA (part of Washington State I think) where the term is allowed because the geographic region includes the word Olympic or Olympus (or something close to that). Even then I think the usage is restricted to within that geographic area. If the domain was useful to the IOC .. then they'd just take it from you. Thei enforce their marks so heavily I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even pay $1 for a domain that included "Olympic" just for the simple fact of not creating a (non-legal) precedent in having people think it's ok to grab Olympic domains with the intent of reselling them to the IOC. That being said, I wouldn't stress out too much. Just make sure you don't have any advertising on it and that it's not listed for sale anywhere .. then just let it expire. You can also just delete it as well if you want. While it's impossible to say without knowing the exact domain, chances are it's both worthless and useless because of the extra restrictions on the "Olympic" mark. [/QUOTE]
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