How to ensure that the domain name you are registering won't have licensing or trademark issues?

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Published on 2014-06-05T16:05:07Z Indexed on 2014/06/05 21:43 UTC
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What are the conventions of domain registering? What domains and names someone can use as a brand/name for a website? How to determine if the name selected is available and there will be no legal issues later?

Example.: A new website being developed, it needs a name, isn't it? So the team who is responsible for it decides, the name will be "WooLaCocaCola", means I should register the www.woolacocacola.com domain for the site. Let's say the domain is free to register, but that doesn't mean that the name as it is can be used, how can I check something like this?

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