If I had trademarked my www.foo.com domain, can I use the law to get www.foo.net?

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1timedeal

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Hey guys, let's say I copyrighted and trademarked the yeah.com - Only the best links ... domain, and someone a year later got the foo.net and do some shit in it to compete with my mainstream ecommerce area, can I hire some lawyers to grab the domain name to myself?

The guy's been getting good traffic from that, so I don't really want him to do that anymore...
 


You can try I assure you the lawyers will gladly take your money and try for you
 
Yes, of course you can try to sue for trademark infringement. Lots of stories of people losing their domains because of this. Most DN registrars have a "I don't want to be in the middle of this" attitude, and tend to side with whoevers lawyers get there first.
 
I have seen a few cases in the WIPO which favored the .com many times..but there are many factors to consider before being sure.
 
It depends on the type of domain (generic, descriptive, neither) and the exact use of the .net
 
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