Hi,
I’m looking into creating a blog website, and I have purchased the domain “dedsec.org”. Ubisoft holds the rights to the name dedsec so I was wondering if I should sell it or not? I bought the domain for $20. I plan to just post about Libreboot and other hacking stuff on it. Maybe, if its legal, can I possibly use the domain for my computer store?
Edit: switched EA to Ubisoft
To add to this; I’ve done some corporate work in this area as a systems admin. If something like this comes up (within the context of being a representative of a company that finds out that someone has a domain that we may hold rights to), one of the things I’ve been asked to do is submit a “Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy” (UDRP) complaint to ICANN (icann.org - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). They basically regulate domain usage and ownership, among many other things.
To read about how these complaints work, see; https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
Read that over while deciding whether you want to use the domain and how you use it. Give particular attention to https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/udrp-rules-2024-02-21-en , section 3-b-ix (titled “Describe, in accordance with the Policy, the grounds on which the complaint is made…”), and it’s sub-items.