My advise is that you go see a lawyer who specializes in international intellectual property law. A close friend of mine does this and not more than a month ago he gave me a breakdown of what all this really boils down to:
These names are public domains, meaning trademark laws do not apply. Nearly the only thing that a company can pin you for is if you attempt to buy the rights to a public domain (in your case coke.ch) for the purpose of extortion. Let me elaborate; you say to yourself, "hey, nobody has coke.ch, I think I'll buy it so I can sell it to coke for $100k." At that point, your intent for purchase is extortion, which is a baddie. You _may_, however, have buy the rights to coke.ch and put up a "Coke Sucks!" or even a "Coka-Cola(tm) Sucks!" page, as long as it has some content which proves your intentions are not to extort money from Coca-Cola(tm).
Now, you are not in this position, so they have nothing on you (although my friend never really went into Swiss law with me...). Sounds like you are for the most part in the clear.
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My advise is that you go see a lawyer who specializes in international intellectual property law. A close friend of mine does this and not more than a month ago he gave me a breakdown of what all this really boils down to:
These names are public domains, meaning trademark laws do not apply. Nearly the only thing that a company can pin you for is if you attempt to buy the rights to a public domain (in your case coke.ch) for the purpose of extortion. Let me elaborate; you say to yourself, "hey, nobody has coke.ch, I think I'll buy it so I can sell it to coke for $100k." At that point, your intent for purchase is extortion, which is a baddie. You _may_, however, have buy the rights to coke.ch and put up a "Coke Sucks!" or even a "Coka-Cola(tm) Sucks!" page, as long as it has some content which proves your intentions are not to extort money from Coca-Cola(tm).
Now, you are not in this position, so they have nothing on you (although my friend never really went into Swiss law with me...). Sounds like you are for the most part in the clear.
-ManiaK