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It’s not uncommon to find a spoof web site, or one that criticizes a company or its products. Similarly, finding a company with a name similar to the name of another company happens time and time again. In the past, numerous lawsuits were filed to curb these incidents, but the Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding dilution clauses, meaning that unless a company can positively prove that their profit is being affected negatively, their trademark does not prevent people from using it in a domain name.

I’m not sure how this affects sites in which people buy domains with a product or company name specifically in order to bash the company or product in question, however. While these types of sites aren’t taking business away from a company, the site contents may lead people away from the bashed company and/or products, either through infamatory remarks, or actual, real criticism.

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