NamePimps

Here is a comment we recently received from a reader/interested party explaining their perspective on trademarks when domain names are involved. This is of particular interest because it appears to give the view of web developers from China.

Thanks a lot for your good suggestion of .com domain.
Anyway,our chinese,dont’ want to buy or register any .com domain,as you know if we buy any .com domain,sooner or later it will be robbed by USA companies through ICANN,such as rc3m.com,cnnews.com,tigercool.com,…etc,all knows that they are abuse of trademark.
We don’t have enough time to check the hundreds of thousands of trademarks before we register a .com domain,we don’t know whether my register name will “infringe” any companies trademark or contain the several letters of any trademark like gezip.com .
What we register is the .cn domain which can’t be abused robbed by USA companies.
If you have good .cn domain,please feel free to present to us.Thanks a lot.

There have been a number of instances that people have registered trademarked names or typos of trademarked names and they have ended up having their names taken from them after a complaint is filed. This comment appears to insinuate that the registering of these names is purely coincidental when that is obviously not the case most of the time. I particularly like the defense that they don’t have time to see if a name is trademarked. This argument falls a little flat on me.