Hello Mark,
Let us not deviate the discussion to "loosing the domain names". We have
discussed it in great details before and have concluded that there is
definitely something wrong going on. The main topic of concern is that "what
comes under the trademark ?" and can these big companies *bully* us to leave
any variation of the domain name (legally) ?
I would just give you a small example. Various words have various meanings.
For example if you take the word yahoo, it has a meaning of "joy and
excitement". Now it is very wrong to say that only one person in the world
can use the word yahoo in his domain name and he can not even use any
deformation of it. Case can be different and more liberal when we discuss
about "Proprietory" coined names like "Microsoft" which might not have any
meaning in our dictionaries or around the world in different cultures.
Now as discussed launching a company names amazon.com cannot (humanly.. may
not be legally) to stop the world from using the word amazon ! And if it
does (which seem to happen), it just does not make sense.
The problem is just going to accelerate once other TLD's comes into play by
the year end.
So it needs to be well defined and it should bother everybody out here.
If your customer comes and say that I want yahoo.goo , you cannot give it !
They have not bought the human rights to promounce and use the word yahoo.
I do not know how many people are concerned with this, but for sure I am.
Regards
Abhishek Rungta
Indus Net Technologies
Phone : 91-33-2201718 2210896
http://www.talash.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Schneiders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Abhishek Rungta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Future problems for us !
> Hello William,
>
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello Abhishek,
> >
> > Tuesday, August 01, 2000, 5:10:40 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > > <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>
> >
> > First of all, there is nothing wrong, absolutely NOTHING, with domain
> > speculation. It is not illegal, unlawful, or inappropriate.
>
> Thank you!
>
> > And lastely, you say you lost your domain name, had you already
> > registered and paid for it? If not, it wasn't your domain name. It
> > was a non-existent available string. The fact is that domains are
> > registered at an ever increasing rate EVERY day. If you check a
> > domain, find it is available, and don't register it on the spot, with
> > each passing hour that domain name is more and more likely to be
> > registered by someone else.
>
> Are you saying that it is a coincidence in *all* cases that people check a
> name and find it free and check it again shortly after and find it
> registered? All the stories I've heard and read about this as well as my
> own experience are just paranoid? There is not and never ever was such a
> thing as monitoring the whois queries done through a specific site and
> using that information to grab names other people were considering?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schneiders ------- Venster - http://www.venster.nl
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My best domain name? The latest! - http://www.anarX.org
>
>
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