How To Protect Your Website Domain Name

Finding a catchy domain name for your website is an important part of your ecommerce strategy – and one that often comes with legal hurdles.

When you're registering a domain (e.g. mltaikins.com), you'll typically encounter three main issues: the sheer amount of domain names that are already in use, trademark infringement and domain name security.

This blog outlines some key steps to address these issues.

Acquiring a trademark

It may be possible to overcome some of these challenges by acquiring a registered trademark in Canada. One large benefit registered trademark owners enjoy is priority registration of domain names that correspond with their trademark.

Another benefit of trademark ownership is being able to challenge the use of domain names when they are identical or confusingly similar to your registered trademarks. To find out more about the dispute resolution process, see our blog post on the topic.