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Originally Posted by Ebby
after a domain expired they have like 75 days or something to renew it before it becomes available for purchase. I tried to buy a domain from a cybersquatter who stole it from me a day after it expired and lo-and-behold he renewed it after he realized there was still demand. I now own the trademark to that domain and can take it back through the courts in a couple months. Took me a year to get to that point though.
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Usually a cheaper, faster way to wrest a domain back from a cybersquatter - WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. That said, just having trademark rights in the domain name (or part thereof) is not an indication of likelihood of success (in and of itself), although maybe you knew that.
