Hello, Is it legal to own a kotlin.xy domain name ...
# general-advice
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Hello, Is it legal to own a kotlin.xy domain name and use it for a Kotlin-related commercial product's or service's site? Thanks.
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You'll find the answer here: https://kotlinfoundation.org/guidelines/
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Under no circumstances can you claim any trademark rights in the Kotlin name or attempt to register a name or source identifier that incorporates the Kotlin trademark or logo, or anything confusingly thereto, as a trademark, domain name, business name or other source identifier.
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but then again, Kotlin Weekly and Kotlin Awesome exist, sooo Well, I'm not a lawyer, that's the legal document, interpret it as you will
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> but then again, Kotlin Weekly and Kotlin Awesome exist, sooo This is why I am curious... Will Jetbrains say one day, after several years of operation, that these web sites are illegal? Of course it is a rhetorical question 🙂 Thanks again.