Example: If I work for a company or am an ex employee of a company, and said company has a website (say mickeymouse.com) can I create mickeynouse,org and use it as a blog, or union organization tool? Am I infringing on any rights of the company known as mickeymouse.com ?Legal advice on creating a web page?
You can register ANY available domain name and use it for ANY legal purpose. A newspaper reporter, back in the day, registered McDonalds.com. Back then, they'd have had to sue him to get the name, and they might not have won. (Now it would be considered a trademark infringement, if the trademark was commonly known, not a common name [Kelly can be a trademark, but anyone could claim kelly.com] and connected to the same industry.)
Unless the company were somehow connected to unions, or you worked for IBM (they can claim any tld using ibm - ibm.org, ibm.aero, any new tlds, etc.), you'd probably be safe. The worst that would happen is that they'd get a court judgment ordering you to turn over ownership of the domain name. (They'd have to pay you for the remaining time on it.)Legal advice on creating a web page?
Well it depends. The internet laws are kinda fuzzy. If you did not put in your contract that its forbidden within a certain timespan to start activities which cross your companies ones you won't get into problems. They might not like it but there's nothing they can do.
You could create mickeynouse.com. It's a different name so you will be fine. You could make a sub-domain and call it something like mickeymouse.subdomain.com.
-Billy
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