What happens if you register a branded domain?

Question

Domain name market

I would like to create an information website on the subject of one of the banks in the Russian Federation. Will there be sanctions from the bank if the domain is similar or the same (only in a different domain zone).

For example, "sberbank.info".

Naturally, with the placement of links to the official website of the bank and a description of the purpose of the site.

Answer 1

Or sell
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Answer 2

Yes, there are only three options here
1, the owner of the brand will buy it from you
2, the owner of the brand will sue it from you (perhaps you will also be paid something)
3, the owner of the brand will not care
And all three have a place to be with a non-zero probability.

Answer 3

Everything will be very simple. Depending on the mood, Sber may "not notice" your site until it contains content that it does not like. As soon as he appears there or a new person appears in Sberbank or the phase of the moon goes wrong - Sberbank will sue, the court will win the court and take the domain for that.

Answer 4

A lot can depend on the jurisdiction of the organization that owns the domain zone and on the rules of this zone. Without a legally justified right to set letters, you can either not experience problems for years, or run into someone's registered rights.
For example, I am aware of a very recent case where a large international food company (also represented in Russia) that produces food products and uses some registered two-word brand lost the first_word.company domain due to the fact that it itself was someone else's then a trademark. In this case, the specified company could register this trademark in _some_ countries and still lose the domain due to not owning such a trademark in the United States.
Similarly, Sberbank may suffer if a domain with its name is registered in a jurisdiction where it does not have a trademark. In some Vietnam, for example. By the way, the Vietnamese domains sber.vn and sberbank.vn are free (for sure, the vn domain has restrictions on registration by non-residents), and the Indonesian sber.id and sberbank.id have been captured by a well-known Russian cybersquatter.
You can also remember that in the zero years, Google could not get gmail.ru and google.ru for a long time, so it was forced to huddle in the google.com.ru domain.
So there is no universal answer to this question. If there is a free domain that looks like someone else's, then sometimes it can work. But if the domain is not just idle, but used in relation to the same Sberbank and is at least somewhat noticeable, then he is unlikely to like it, and even in the USA Sberbank may well find a long-registered trademark as an instrument of pressure.

Answer 5

In Russia, I don’t know how they will react, but there are no problems over the hill. Search the Internet how Google forgot to renew the google.com address and the kid bought it for 12 bucks

Answer 6

We discussed cybersquatting a bit here https://vc.ru/u/575150-ru-center/178794-otzyvy-or... by the way, we are also talking about domains and hosting. You can join the discussion :-) As for the subject, I will join the opinion that up to a certain point, the conditional fee will not care about you. Only if there is no negative on the site. If you become a threat to the company's reputation, then wait for either a cash offer or a subpoena. Then everything will depend on your capabilities and knowledge.