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It doesn't seem to have been a problem for http://vine-videos.com

They're ranking 2nd on Google for the term 'vine', and even have the Vine logo as their favicon and next to their listing!

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Exactly, people here need to take a chill pill. There's no money in play here. Twitter / Vine have other fish to fry.

I bought VineFeed.com and VinePlayer.com awhile ago. The ToS (at least when I read it) said not to use the Vine name in domain names, so I put that on the backburner. I had wanted to make a couple of sites similar to Vine-videos.com though. I could see Vine bullying people in the future who use it in their name, even after being able to know a site is using it from referral / API data - and allow a site to grow large and then hit them with a "give this to us or we'll sue." If anyone wanted to partner and use the domains though I'd be up for it.

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