On a semi-related note, I registered a trademark for my company and the .com is just domain squatting. The .com preexists my trademark however. Do I have any grounds to try and claim it or am I SOL. I know if they were actually using it for a business, it'd be one thing, but it's a generic domain-for-sale page instead.
Just to be clear, domain squatting has a definition. The fact that a domain you want isn't currently available is not domain squatting.
"What is domain squatting? This is the practicing of buying a domain name for the sole purpose of preventing someone else from buying it. Typically, the buyer will then resell the domain name at a higher price to a buyer who is desperate to pay for the domain. The domain squatter takes a risk in trying to find a domain that someone else will be willing to pay at an up-charge to buy the domain in the future."
If the .com "preexists your trademark", it's harder to prove they bought it to prevent you from buying it. If you're a small business smaller than $80K per year in revenue, it's likely they don't even know you exist.
Also related, there's a "tv" domain, registered after my trademark that serves porn. Same question.
For this one, I've taken the general position that as long as they don't show up in the first 3 pages of google results for "company", I don't really care, but same question.
For context, my company is a saas booking platform for outdoor recreation businesses.
