Marc,
Although I have problems with some of the WIPO decisions, I gotta say I have
no problem with this one whatsoever. The respondant was quite obviously a
cybersquatter - s/he registered the domain in bad faith, used META tags in
the webpages to demonstrate that, and never even responded to the complaint.
Why *should* s/he keep it? And the Big Tatas abused their corporate power to
gain control of it.
If anything, there should be a new WIPO rule for situations like this - both
parties should have all their domains deactivated; they should never be
allowed register a domain again; and the "panel" should be taking outside for
an ass-whuppin'.
adam - Hater of Cybersquatters. And Spammers.
Marc Schneiders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Swerve wrote:
>
> > Excellent web page, Marc.!
> >
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> Thanks :-) Is it sarcastic enough?
>
> >
> > Also,
> >
> > 1.Life
> > 2. Love
> > 3. Freedom
> >
> > +many others
> >
> > are also trademarked as single words.
>
> Yes, and the bodacious-tatas.com case sets precedence for the owner of
> Love(tm) to have a domain Slove.com cancelled.
>
> > Perhaps we'll see a day when WIPO trademark lawyers try to hijack domains
> > that use those words as well.
> >
> > Language itself is being threatened by certain corporate interests. The
> > phenomena is a Global one.
>
> You are very right here, I'm afraid. It is not merely a matter of small
> companies being ousted by big ones at a cheap rate though WIPO. It is also
> about free speech. But who cares about that these days?
>
> Well, I have collected a number of domains sufficient to protest all this
> big-corporate and UN-aided theft, even if they steal a few from me. The
> problem is: the press isn't even interested anymore in the victims of
> UDRP. It has become common. And imagine what will happen after the new
> gTLDs are introduced and the first five million names have been registered
> in those... WIPO is going to be very busy. And we will all be bored by the
> news on the 50,000th case and accept it like we accept parking tickets.
>
> I hope my last remark will proove to be wrong, but I am cynical about it.
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