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If you are a company that owns trademarks, you have to defend them or lose them. That means buying the domain name

How does that follow? Coca-Cola doesn't have to own Coke.org to protect its trademark. It would have to sue anyone who used it in the context of soft drinks. If a cocaine rehab clinic got the domain then Coca-Cola wouldn't have any trademark issues.



Yeah, but buying the domain is cheaper than suing.




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