Copyright and Trademark Infringement Notification Policy

 Domain Apps is a domain management service provider that fully respects the trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that others have acquired. As a prerequisite to enrolling in and/or using our service, all of our clients must agree to abide by our Terms of Use Agreement which strictly prohibits utilizing our service for any domain name that infringes in any way upon the trademark rights of others. We also follow the guidelines established by The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which is a United States copyright law which helps to protect the rights of copyright owners as well as the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA), a portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act known as DMCA 512 or the DMCA takedown provisions, which is a 1998 United States federal law that provides a safe harbor to online service providers (OSPs, including Internet service providers) that promptly take down content if someone alleges it infringes their copyrights.

Regarding matters of trademark or copyright infringement, we set forth herein the procedures you must follow to alert of us infringement. For other intellectual property rights or legal concerns, please contact us via email to state the nature of your complaint and we will review your complaint promptly and respond to the same.

Infringement Issues

If you believe that your copyright or trademark has been infringed, please follow the steps outlined below:

  • Provide, on your complaint, a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • Provide identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site. In the event that the matter concerns a trademark, provide the registration number or serial number of the trademark. If the trademark has not been filed with the USPTO, please explain the nature of your rights under Federal or State law.
  • Provide identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
  • Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
  • Provide a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. In the matter of trademark infringement, please explain the nature of how you are being harmed as set forth by the Lanham Act or other law.
  • Provide a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

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