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Re:Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming tra... by mikeash on Saturday January 02, 2016 @12:43PM (#10826918)
The key part of my statement is "non-infringers." Yes, you can lose your trademark if you don't go after people who infringe it. But you don't have to go after people who aren't infringing, as is the case here.
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Re:Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming tra... by gist on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:01PM (#10828189)
The OP said "I just took the old landing page down".

We don't know what was on that landing page do we? There could have been something that was infringing in some way.

For the record I happen to have a domain name that I registered that has the word "Trump" in it and is a .com. And I have never been contacted by Trump's legal team. This doesn't prove my point however I thought I would point it out as perhaps relevant.

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Re:Donald Trump is coming after my domain name, claiming tra... by mikeash on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:36PM (#10829060)
OP says it had nothing to do with Donald. They might be lying, but at that point we have nothing to discuss at all.
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