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>>spiral+(OP)
A similar thing has happened to me before. There is a company with the same name as my surname with a trademark for it.

When I registered a domain with my surname in it, the registrar had an automatic process in place that checked for this trademark and took away access of the domain. So far so good. The problem was that the registrar and its support then ghosted me and also never refunded me for the money already paid to lease the domain for a year. Overall it was a bad experienced with bad communication that made me switch registrar (note: this was a different registrar than mentioned here).

I think one of the problems is that as more and more individual consumers buy domains, certain legal processes and automation are not ready for that. A good registrar should anticipate that an individual private consumer may not have the legal experience or knowledge to deal with just being hit with something they were never explicitly warned of.

>>suregl+65
Trademarks are country specific while domain names are not. Would be interesting to know what happens if they took this to trial (in which country though).

>>morale+fl
Of course domain registrations are also subject to national law. .io in particular is (currently) under UK jurisdiction.

>>lxgr+Aa1
Hmm ... you're right, I could have worded that differently to help people like you understand the point being made.

s/domain names are not/DNS is not/