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I registerd this name several month ago and never used because I got scared after reading about many troubles with trademark infringments.
At that time I was trying to list this Name at GreatDomains because I heard they only trade with 1st class names and you see Olympic Golds is very actractive (especially in view of the Olympics2006) and is build on two strong keywords.
GreatDomains rejected the submission because they say the name was infringing german trademarks laws.
Few days later I received an e-mail from a german trademark site where it was written "sorry, you're too late, contact your attorney in law..." and nothing else.
I replied to this guy asking if he was a scammer or something like that because I didn't like someone unknown talk to me that way....he didn't replied, just he sent to me a link to his german site about trademarks, where I were not able to understand anything...(even throught the english interface).
I investigated on this subject and I found that there was a connection between this German trademark offfice and greatdomain (GD was an affiliate).
I wrote to the IOC (International Olympic Committee) asking some information if I could use this name ect. but I never got an answer.
I went to many sites about trademarks and I found a document (about 1953 or so ) were it is written that the use of the word "olympic" is forbidden for any use and in whatever combination into a phrase (except for those companies who registered an olympionic trademark before such date)....that apply in every country that recognize...bla bla...something..except.....bla bla..
to make it short I decided better to no risk and I forgot about this name.....until now when I remebered about the 2006 olympic games....
I thought no to develope the site, as was my first intention (could be a cool site about the winners of a gold in the olympiads,the so called Olympionics, trough the history that I guess would receive a quite high good amout of well qualified traffic....) but instead just join it in some good monetization program.....(publicity:monetize.it is for sale by genialnames.com - end of infomercial )
:gn:
so I come to the question:
what would you do?
At that time I was trying to list this Name at GreatDomains because I heard they only trade with 1st class names and you see Olympic Golds is very actractive (especially in view of the Olympics2006) and is build on two strong keywords.
GreatDomains rejected the submission because they say the name was infringing german trademarks laws.
Few days later I received an e-mail from a german trademark site where it was written "sorry, you're too late, contact your attorney in law..." and nothing else.
I replied to this guy asking if he was a scammer or something like that because I didn't like someone unknown talk to me that way....he didn't replied, just he sent to me a link to his german site about trademarks, where I were not able to understand anything...(even throught the english interface).
I investigated on this subject and I found that there was a connection between this German trademark offfice and greatdomain (GD was an affiliate).
I wrote to the IOC (International Olympic Committee) asking some information if I could use this name ect. but I never got an answer.
I went to many sites about trademarks and I found a document (about 1953 or so ) were it is written that the use of the word "olympic" is forbidden for any use and in whatever combination into a phrase (except for those companies who registered an olympionic trademark before such date)....that apply in every country that recognize...bla bla...something..except.....bla bla..
to make it short I decided better to no risk and I forgot about this name.....until now when I remebered about the 2006 olympic games....
I thought no to develope the site, as was my first intention (could be a cool site about the winners of a gold in the olympiads,the so called Olympionics, trough the history that I guess would receive a quite high good amout of well qualified traffic....) but instead just join it in some good monetization program.....(publicity:monetize.it is for sale by genialnames.com - end of infomercial )
:gn:
so I come to the question:
what would you do?