>Loren
>Your best bet (assuming you have a trademark for the domain in question) is
>to file a sunrise challenge against the name. The sooner you file the
>better. If you are the legitimate tm holder
if you are *one* of the (many possible) tm holders for the name...
kind regards philippe, YourTM.com
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>then you will be able to
>register the domain if you win the sunrise challenge.
>
>Thanks
>
>Rick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loren Stocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:33 AM
>To: David Harris; Mark Jeftovic; Shawn Pritchard
>Cc: Rick Baraniuk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [RE: .info]
>Importance: Low
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>I have an interest in a .info challenge, but have done nothing to date.
>
>Can I initate an action with a valid trademark at this late date? I realize
>that the deadline is something like December. My question is whether there
>this a rule that requires a trademark holder to have requested the domain or
>taken any other action DURING the sunrise period.
>
>Best, Loren
>
>"David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>To perform a successful challenge do you have to hold the trademark on that
>name? Or is it just sufficient to prove that the other party does not have a
>trademark without owning one yourself?
>
>If: (a) it is sufficient to prove that the other person does not have a
>trademark without owning one yourself, and (b) you get to own the domain
>name at the end of the challenge, then this sounds like an awesome sure-fire
>way to get a valuable domain that someone has performed a bogus sunrise
>registration on.
>
>Is this correct?
>
>David Harris
>President, DRH Internet Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.drh.net/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Jeftovic
>Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:31 AM
>To: Shawn Pritchard
>Cc: 'Rick Baraniuk'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: .info
>
>
>I am under the impression that if somebody other than Afilias (i.e. you)
>challenge it and win, you get it.
>
>Then after all the third party challenges are in, Afilias is supposed
>to go through the ones that are left (have not been challenged) and
>themselves challenge the fraudulent ones and those go back into the
>free pool.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>-mark
>
>On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Shawn Pritchard wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If we challenge a .info name that clearly does not meet the criteria for
>> a valid trademark, etc.. Would we, as the challenger, "win" that domain
>> name if the WIPO ruled against the current registrant? Or...does the
>> name then just go back into the pool "at a later date" and we have no
>> better chance at getting the name than anyone who didn't bother to
>> challenge?
>>
>> There are a couple of .info names that we are VERY interested in, but
>> have been fraudulently claimed during Sunrise (like with Trademark dates
>> of January 2040).
>>
>> Thanks for any insight you can provide.
>>
>> Shawn Pritchard
>> webexceed
>>
