Is This Illegal ? A Rival Company Has Used A Domain Name The Same As Our Company Name To Direct People To Them?

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I wanted to set up a web page for our business.On trying to secure the domain name i found that a rival company has secured the .co.uk domain name with our name in it.
When you do a search it takes you to a page which re-directs you to their website!.
Can they legally do this ?.I know they can secure any domain name that’s available but can it be used in this way ?

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3 Responses to “Is This Illegal ? A Rival Company Has Used A Domain Name The Same As Our Company Name To Direct People To Them?”

dave l(2009-09-06):

Yes they can it’s first come first served. They may have had the same idea that your company did and acted fast to get the domain name.
Depending on how big your company is maybe you can buy it.
I have been offered a lot of money for culturallycool.com but I have put to much work into it. I built it from completely by my self and it has great world wide appeal.
vic M(2009-09-07):

No this is illegal it is called cybersquatting. Here you’ll find a good definition of what it is http://www.thednforum.com/index.php?page…
Webintel(2009-09-07):

Not being an attorney my best guess is that unless you took out a copy right on the name or trade marked it you have little recourse.
I made a similar mistake about 10 years or more ago, I filmed a television commercial and used my company name in the commercial prior to obtaining the domain name for it. Later when I applied for the domain name, I discovered the .com was in use elsewhere. However, .org, .net, .biz, .mobi, were all open and available so I registered them.
Your difficulty appears to be the redirect page, and that is an entirely different can of worms.
I would suggest changing your domain spelling enough to get away from the redirect.
Or change your domain altogether which would completely solve your problem.
You state you want to set up a web page; and this leads me to believe you haven’t gone to that expense yet, and are in the planning stages. So changing your domain name shouldn’t be that difficult.
If you are adamant about the domain name you’ve chosen, then I suggest using .mobi . There are millions more people with mobile devices than computers, and if you build your site to be .mobi compliant, you’ll open up a big world of customers.http://www.radsponder.com/cgi-bin/t.cgi?…
People in third world countries may not have computers, but they do have mobile phones to communicate with, think about it.http://webintel.mobi