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draggar

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I own a trio of domains, hotmals.net / org / info.

I was planning on putting up a site for champion and well titled malinois (if you don't know what one is: http://malinoisclub.com/ pic: http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o86/draggardevir/pets/zorro.jpg). There is a very common inside short name for them, mals (hence the domain, hotmals).

Now, it could be perceived to be a typo for hotmail to some people, including some rather aggressive anti-cyber/typo squatting companies out there (hence why I never parked the domains).

My plans are having information on the breed, links to ABMC, Malinois Rescue, and top breeders as well as stories and pictures of successful dogs. I also do plan on having adsense on the site but I will try my hardest to point the ads to related ads (malinois breeders, dog training, German Shepherd, Dutch Shepherds, protection training, ring sport, etc..).

Do yoy think a larger company might try to go after me for this or do you think I might be close to in the clear with the way I am going to go with this. I am going to try to make it as obvious as possible what the site is and what it is about (and honestly, if anyone confuses it with HotMail when I am done then I think they would need to get their eyes checked). :)
 

EnricoSchaefer

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Sounds like you have a solid non-infringing use and defense to any typo claims. However, Microsoft is aggressive in protecting its marks and demands a payment of $50,000 in settlement of any cybersquatting claims (although they negotiate down from there). Make sure you don't offer up any ads for email products or services. Good luck.
 

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why don't you ask them?
seriously
 

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As long as the content doesn't infringe on anyone's TM, you should be fine. If you use the likes of Adsense (or other content detecting ad-serving platform), and your content is correct, they shouldn't display infringing ads.

Most ad servers have options to specifically block words/urls... would be a good idea to look into/use that.
 
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