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Do you know about registering domain names?

Say I want to call my new commercial site Hello! (with the exclamation point). I know I can't register hello!.com but hello.com is already taken. Can I register it as something like helloall.com but use Hello! on the home page or will I still be infringing on someone else's domain? Thanks.

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  • 1 decade ago
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  • 1 decade ago

    I think you will be okay. Hello! is a pretty general term for anyone or any organization to trademark. Maybe if your site was about the same thing, it'd be a problem...but other then that, I think you'd be okay.

  • 7 years ago

    That would be fine, you can not copyright the word hello

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