Hello All,
I was just surfing by CNN.COM.
found some interesting news and it is a warning for us.
Giants like yahoo.com, att.com and microsoft.com are behaving as if some
words cannot be used anywhere by anyone. I understand trademark/copyright
infringement, but these does not seem to be the case. Today it is happening
with them, tomorrow established corporates may start doing it with any of
us. It must be voiced against.
"The domain name campyahoo.com was ordered transferred to Yahoo!, which
complained the name could be confused with its own trademarks. " - a
statement from the news article.
Now if someone uses campyahoo.com, why should it create problem to yahoo.
This means no domain name can contain the word yahoo ?
So tomorrow mail.com can start claiming that no domain name shall include
the word "mail" !
Another thought : Since it was yahoo ! , they prevented a name which has
nothing to do with them (in fact), but when we complain about
domaincollection about unfair practise to gather domain names (by mining the
logs of whois requests), ICANN or domain dispute policy falls silent. This
is not democracy at least.
<oh yes. I did lodged a formal complaint against Domain Collection in Feb
this year when I lost my domain name after few minutes checking in their
system and the same thing was repeated exactly the next day>
Another example :
"U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T won its case against WorldclassMedia.com
of Austria over the domain names attmexico.com and att-latinamerica.com "
Again just the use of letters "att" creates problem ?
"The domain names microsoftnetwork.com, hotmaill.com, homail.com,
hotmai.com, otmail.com, hotmailcom.com, activexx.com and linksexchange.com.
were ordered transferred to software maker Microsoft. " - another example
This is too much. The guy who might have registered has not registered the
word msn or hotmail in complete even. Cant we even buy the deformations of
few names. I wonder how many names will it be possible to frame if we follow
such strict trademark infringement and domain dispute law.
Just a thought. I may be wrong. Would appriciate any comment. and I hope
this post is valid to the group, since it must be concerning quite a few
people in this biz.
Complete article can be found at :
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/01/cybersquatting.ap/index.html
What are the views of OpenSRS guys on this ? any comments ?
Abhishek Rungta
Indus Net Technologies
Phone : 91-33-2201718 2210896
http://www.talash.net
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