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What if I use a domain for my website which contains the name of a popular game? Would it get taken down?

  • I have a question regarding whether or not my website would be taken down due to copyright/trademark infringement or something. Say for example I wanted to make a website about the popular online game World of Warcraft. Obviously the official website address for the game would be www.worldofwarcraft.com (presumably - i'm not sure, i've never played it). So say I registered the domain www.world-of-warcraft.org, and I had my website located at this web address. It would maybe have a forum about the game and maybe a bit of news about World of Warcraft. My question is, would my website be taken down because the URL contains the text 'world of warcraft'? It's just that I have a feeling that because the name 'world of warcraft' will surely have a copyright/trademark owned by Blizzard (the company that own's the Warcraft franchise, I think) then I will not have a right to use that name as a domain URL. Also, I don't know if it would also be a problem that I base my website on World of Warcraft info (i.e a forum and a news section). I want to use a domain with the words 'world of warcraft' in it as it will be good for Search Engine Visibility with regards to people looking for world of warcraft related content. So please can you people tell me if registering the supposed domain 'world-of-warcraft.org would be a good idea? would it be legal? Would I get my website taken down because of copyright infringement? Thanks in advance for your help (providing you do help).

  • Answer:

    yes, they can take the web site, or order it to shut down.

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