Of course no-one's forced to, I'm just making the point that I find it surprising that a US company that went to the not inconsiderable trouble to register their trademark 30 years ago hasn't bothered to spend 5 minutes and $100 or so to register a pretty obvious version of that trademark in the .com.au domain space.
>-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:29:16 -0700 (PDT) >From: David Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [DNS] Domain monetising? >Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> > > >I can see why someone *should* register domains to protect their trademark, >but in reality why should they if they don't want to. If one looks at the >offline world, it's not expected a company should register various permutation >of their company name or brands to protect a brand or company, so why should >they be forced to with domain names? > >David > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Jon Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: .au DNS Discussion List <[email protected]>; .au DNS Discussion List ><[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 5:23:41 PM >Subject: Re: [DNS] Domain monetising? > >Hi Ron > >Given that there are two Australian Trademarks for "Seven Eleven" registered >to 7-Eleven, Inc. from Dallas, Texas, dating from 1976, perhaps a better >question to ask would be, why didn't they register this name themselves? > >Jon > > >>-- Original Message -- >>From: "Ron Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "'.au DNS Discussion List'" <[email protected]> >>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:30:05 +1000 >>Subject: [DNS] Domain monetising? >>Reply-To: ".au DNS Discussion List" <[email protected]> >> >> >>Can anybody tell me what claim does Mr Ying Fat Ng, operating as a sole >>trader, have over the domain name seveneleven.com.au? Especially when >he >>purportedly offers 7-Eleven stores for sale, but appears to have no >>connection whatsoever with them? >> >>There's potentially a similar situation, albeit under a different entity, >>with 711.com.au. >> >>Ron Stark >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________ >On Yahoo!7 >Photos: Unlimited free storage ? keep all your photos in one place! >http://au.photos.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
