Days after Facebook.com won a UDRP decision to gain ownership of Facebok.com , a large batch of “less stellar” Facebook.com typo domains are being deleted Wednesday. Most of these domains showed an expiration date that was further off, so in all likelihood the owner of these domains issued a forced registry deletion in order to cut the liability.
The domains deleting Wednesday include :
facebobk.com
facebobook.com
facebokook.com
faceboodk.com
facemook.com
faebok.com
fancebook.com
facebookbook.com
facebooook.com
It’s highly likely that these names will end up being grabbed and auctioned at one of the top auction spots like Snapnames.com or Namejet.com. Several of the above names already have multiple bidders at Namejet.
Facebook has been making aggressive legal moves on companies that use the word “book” or “face” in domains. Teachbook.com received a great deal of the press surrounding these “David vs Goliath” suits. Robin Wauters weighed in with his thoughts on these overreaching moves at TechCrunch and Erick Schonfeld points out that Facebook is even trying to trademark the word Face.
With overreaching bullying tactics like these, I’m 100% positive Facebook will be aggressive toward more obvious names like these deleting names, possibly even stopping any auction before it begins.
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The Valuate.com service by Domaining.com’s founder Francois Carrillo has now added a trademark checker functionality, which automatically scans the submitted domains for potential trademark claims. The service was built by the Estibot team.
Francois suggests trying those samples if you have trouble coming up with domains to try:
mikrosoft.com
googleads.com
iphonestore.com
He also points out that the following things should be kept in mind when using the service:
- EVERY word is trademarked (ex: apple, orange, great, elephant) so it’s pointless to have a TM scanner that checks every TM because 99% of domains will have some generic TM.
- TM checker only works on BIG fortune 1,000 companies + their products (ex: Microsoft => xbox => halo) + smaller industry companies (ex: Verisign, godaddy)
- TM checker optimized for companies that have history of suing domainers (ex: Verizon, Viacom, Facebook, Twitter, etc)
- It’s NOT [a] comprehensive TM check. Always consult good TM lawyer for [a] real analysis. It’s only good for identifying obvious TMs in portfolio.
- It detects typos. You can even adjust probability match (default is 65%, but you can bring to even 30% to make very broad).
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