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It’s important to have a basic understanding of trademarks when it comes to domain investing. I have absolutely no legal background or expertise, but I have done my own research by following UDRP filings and various litigation involving domain names. Basically what I am saying here is that this should not be construed as legal advice because I have no legal expertise.

Over the weekend, I saw Theo’s article about a nice domain name that was sold at Sedo. A reader there commented about the number of trademarks for the term and how that makes it risky. I want to share one good aspect of a keyword .com domain name having many trademarks and one bad aspect of that – from my perspective as a domain name investor who buys one word .com domain names.

Rob Schutz, who goes by the enviable @Rob handle on Twitter, is a Co-Founder of Ro, an online health services company. Rob has also built a domain brokerage business called Snagged.com. I have never worked on a domain name deal with Rob, but I have seen his name mentioned before and have had conversations with him on Twitter.

On Sunday, Rob received a shoutout from Alexis Ohanian, the serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Reddit. Alexis was showing appreciation for Rob related to an undisclosed domain name acquisition: