According to SeattlePI.com Microsoft has filed three lawsuits in the past two weeks against people registering domain names using the Bing trademark.

All the 3 cases, were filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

According to the article many of the domain subject to the suits either redirected to PPC pages, to non-resolving sites or registrar placeholders.

Microsoft apparently doesn’t care if the page goes to PPC, doesn’t resolve or goes to a Godaddy place holder.

If your using “bing” in your domain your subject to suit.

The lawsuits seek injunctions and monetary damages, and asks the court to order the domain names canceled or forfeited to Microsoft.

SeattlePI.com interviewed  one the defendants, Mark Vrabel of Elgin, Ill., which told them that “he was unaware of the lawsuit against him and that he registered the domains for a client who was planning to start a network of adult websites. The business fell through and the URLs are not used, he said.”

“I have not engaged in anything with these domains, other than possibly registering them,” Vrabel said.

“If I registered them, so be it. But I never intended anything with it.”

The domains involved with the suit against Vrabel include barebing.com, bingdate.com, bingkinky.com, buffbing.com, pimpbing.com and many more not suitable for print. Today, most of them go to a blank page or GoDaddy, which provides domain-registration services.”

“If somebody called then and said, ‘Hey, I want those domains,’ they can have them,” Vrabel said. “If they have any issues, all they have to do is contact me … instead of pulling a shot like this.”

“I certainly would never squat,” Vrabel said.

This is a good reminder to all that not every trademark holder is simply going to send a C & D letter when it finds an infriging domain especially when someone registers multiple domains, sometime they just go and file suit