I have a domain www.ondarize.com
Created on: 26-Jun-05
Expires on: 26-Jun-08

but i see a website ondarizeent.com out now

created: 12-Oct-2007
registration-expiration: 12-Oct-2008

is there a way i can copyright my name maybe since i’ve had it longer and get this person to stop using that name?

Okay I thought of this name “Romantique Interiors” 5 years ago,and even bought a webdomain that since expired. Well, I was doing a search on it and I found 1 company that now is using that name, and they bought my old domain I let go.

I searched the trademark office, and no one has registered this name, so if I purchase a trade mark will I be able to tell them “this is my name”?

After more than 25 years at my job, I got fired over the phone by the new owner. I knew he had a website for his other office and was going to eventually do one for the new office.
I bought 2 domains with variations of the name and when he finally sought to put up a site, found that the name (s) were taken and easily learned that i owned them.
His manager says she will wait for them to expire, but I will renew them in perpetuity, if need be.
The company name is not registered, but I wondered if he could do anything legally to me for taking the name.
I understand they were really p.o.’d when they learned this. LOL

I am not sure how this works legally. If someone were to buy a domain after it had expired and the renew period had ended and the original owner had not renewed could a competing business then legally forward traffic to their own site after buying the domain? In this case the domain is the name of the other business.