----- Original Message ----- From: Sanjeev Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:33 AM > Exactly. And the Trademark owner has made an investment in the name, > generating goodwill, and he has every right to expect the cyber squatter to > pay heavily for his name. Make sense? Me neither. The Internet is a total different entity in this world and therefore should be treated as a world where things run differently. Therefore if I have registered domain names www.ghane.com, www.ghane.net etc. etc. ;-) Then I expect you to pay heavily for your domain name as long as I am doing nothing to damage your goodwill etc. > This is The Wrong Way(tm). You are forcing me to pre-emptively register my > domain in all 6 TLDs, and 140 ccTLDs. The zone files just grew > bigger. Much bigger. Lol Your choice, mine was just a suggestion which meant a couple of global domain names. > British courts have recently, in the case of Julia Roberts and some > authors, applied Trademark laws to get to the same decision. They are not > saying I can't register tanishq.com, but I can't use it in a way that > impinges on the "goodwill". This is similar to case law currently, I can > not start a "Tanishq Watch Strap Co", but I can start a "Tanishq Goat Milk > and Cheese Co", (I assume that Titan is not in this business). So if I register the domain name and do nothing then will I still be separated from the domain name just because I haven't put any material and have just one HTML page saying website is under construction?? Won't the courts still take that as an impingement on the "goodwill" of the company since I haven't put any material on the website??? Now isn't that unfair? I mean I can't put any material on the website and I can't keep it empty too??? So what can I do, donate it to the comapny as charity? > My point is that these cases are well handled under current law. Well, I don't know about the British but the Indian Court well *sigh* ............. Jeff The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-delhi/
