Register your domain as a trademark. It costs a few hundred dollars, and can be done online. This gives you stronger rights with ICANN, against anybody who illicitly acquired the domain, against typosquatters, the registrar, and the courts. You can send intimidating lawyer letters, and quickly escalate from the registrar's support department to lawyer-to-lawyer phone calls.

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simultsop 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That is a really fd up system. Pay more to own more.

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otterley 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"You get what you pay for" has been true ever since capitalism was invented. Whether it be the "get a registered trademark" route or the "pay more for a competent domain registrar" route, you pay either way.

	▲	Animats 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Registering a trademark won't prevent screwups such as the original posting here. What it will do is help you apply pain to the registrar until they fix the problem.

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donmcronald 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What? Where can you register online? In Canada you basically have to hire a lawyer and the wait time for issuance is crazy. The backlog peaked at a 4 year wait after Covid.

I’d love to be able to register an trademark online.

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Beijinger 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trademarks mean Bullshit. Facebook closed a site of mine besides having a registered and valid (US) trademark that precedes everything.