Let’s imagine you’ve found a website that bears your trademarked branding and is domain squatting. You locate the infringement through brand intelligence, now what? Not all domain takedowns are the same. Some are a lot harder to get removed if it’s not a clear case of phishing or fraud. When dealing with trademark infringements, domain registrars (the organizations that sell domain names).
In some cases, a registrar isn’t able to act on removing a domain that is infringing upon a trademark, and other takedown attempts such as a cease and desist order do not work. In that case, there is a procedure that can be invoked that gives a company the right to argue their case that their mark is being used unfairly. ...read more!
