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TRADEMARK VS DOMAIN NAME: AN ANALYSIS

Trademark is one of the intellectual property rights which is very well known in today's era. Almost every individual is dealing in some way or the other with n no. of trademarks , may be by selling, purchasing, and marketing any of the products or services in the market. Whereas Domain name is parallel to trademark, which means, what trademark does in real life, domain name does in virtual world. It basically helps in the field of selling, purchasing, marketing goods or services online through different websites. The object of trademark is to identify the source or origin of the proprietor selling the goods or services and the object of domain name is to identify the source or origin of goods or services on online portal. Every website has its own domain name by which the customer can very well identify its source or origin.  Secondly, for trademark we have trademark Act, 1999 which deals with all the provisions for trademark. It is not mand