Can I use country name in domain name?

Can I use country name in domain name?

No, absolutely not. You can buy domain containing any country name in it. You shall avoid the brand name while buying the domain but country name, yes you can buy and there are several websites having country name in it.

Is country name copyrighted?

Generally, national laws do not contain specific references to an official list of country names, and few of them include additional precisions as to whether protection is given to official names only, or also to common names or abbreviated versions of State names.

Can we use country name as a brand?

Yes, someone else can get a trademark for your brand name in another country. Reason being that trademarks are teriitorial in nature which means that you have to get them registered in every country seperately.

Is .com used internationally?

com is for all countries.

Can a state name be trademarked?

Can you own the exclusive right to put the name of your state on t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, and other merchandise? Yes, you can, to a point. First, although people often question how anyone can “trademark” a common word, it happens all the time. APPLE is a common word that also used as a trademark, for example.

Which principles is applicable to trademarks?

Principles of Trademark Protection:

• As trademark protection provides monopoly rights to the proprietors, certain word is not allowed to be used as Trademarks like name, surname and descriptive words can not be registered as Trademarks.
• The marks that can mislead the public can not be registered as Trademark.

Can we use city name as brand?

You can, but you would not be able to trademark it unless it was in combination with something else (like a logo or a phrase containing the city name).

Can you use city name in company name?

Generally, you can use your city in your business name. You cannot imply that your business is somehow a government agency, part of law enforcement or a financial institution.

Is it OK to have hyphen in domain name?

The hyphen, commonly known as a dash (though this is typographically not correct), is the only spacing character allowed in a domain name. That makes it the only option for when you want to register a domain name with two words in it and you don’t want to—or can’t—mash them together with no space between them.