I would like to copyright or trademark a website. My website has its own unique name and unique symbol. 1. I do not know which form of intellectual property protection is better. 2. I do not know how to copyright or trademark my website and its unique name, and its symbol. Please give me directions or info on how I can achieve this.

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When I started my own fashion label my dad told me to make a copy of my logo, company name, name of colors used, and to write a little letter saying my label was created by me at Age 15 in 2009. And I had my dad sign it also (along with my signature) as proof of. Whitness. Then I put it in an envelope, sealed it and put a stamp on it. Then I sent it to myself. Once I got it my dad told me not to open it. It's somewhat of a copyright.

A copyright applies to text and to illustrations, but not to simple symbols. Under the Berne conventions, your website is already copyright without you doing anything, but it is reasonable that you so state on your website so that there can be no dispute later as to who exactly owns the copyright. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright . A trademark is a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements originally used to indicate a particular company for purpose of trade. You cannot trademark a website. You could invent a name, word, phrase, etc. to represent your website. You do not need to register it to sue anyone who is using something you feel is too similar to your trademark. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark . Note that unless you actually use a trademark for some purpose of identification outside of your website, it may lose its protected status, even if you have registered it. Copyrighting and trademarking are entirely different things so one cannot say that one is better than the other. As to mailing something to yourself in a sealed envelope, see http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/ which indicates that this is very, very poor protection. Attempting to trademark something in this fashion would give no protection, as you must actively use the trademark or you will lose exclusive rights to it. If someone attempted to prove that his or her version of a trademark had priority over another company's use because that person had it first by this method, his or her case would be rejected in court unless it is shown that the person had officially registered it or had actually been using it, in which case the version in the envelope is unnecessary.

A trademark or trade mark or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization. You can protect your unique name and symbol as trademark. For facilitating the registration of trademarks in multiple jurisdictions you can use Madrid system.The primary advantage of the Madrid system is that it allows a trademark owner to obtain trademark protection in many jurisdictions by filing one application in one jurisdiction with one set of fees, and make any changes (e.g. changes of name or address) and renew registration across all applicable jurisdictions through a single administrative process.