Re:Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming tra...
by chris_overseas on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:53AM
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The OP doesn't state what the TLD is, but it seems clear it is not a .com
> I own a domain name that has the domain root "trumpd" (so the full domain is like www.trumpd.xx)
Re:Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming tra...
by deckar01 on Saturday January 02, 2016 @11:33AM
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I decided to browse through the list of TDLs to see if anything funny matched up.
trumpd.one
trumpd.id
trumpd.hk
trumpd.ck
trumpd.ie
trumpd.ar - My personal favorite. The app would alert you when Donald Trump is close by.
A quick cruise around variations on "trumpsucks.com", "trumpsucks.net", "notrump.com", and other such domains shows no clear pattern to me in ownership, each being owned by what appears to be a different person, all clearly not owned by the "THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION" that owns trump.com.
It seems like this may be exactly what it seems; an organization believing that people will be fooled into thinking that "trumpd.com" is sourced from THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. It seems to me that despite the apparent politically-charged subject matter, that this is just a standard trademark dispute. Which I say without reference to whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. (With the explosion of TLDs it's probably becoming an irrelevant thing; only the very largest organizations are going to be able to keep up with this sort of thing in the full DNS space anymore.)