Re: [ifwp] NSI Domain Name Dispute Stats

[Milton Mueller]

These are excellent points. They have been made before, but deserve reiteration.
This is why some of us have insisted upon linking the domain name issue to free
expression. My opinion is that a domain name "mycarisaporsche" or
"my-car-is-a-porsche" dot whatever is a perfectly legitimate use of the word that
does not infringe porsche's trademark. Porsche's trademark does not prohibit me
from using the word in this message, to talk about the company or its cars; nor
does it stop me from using it in documents. Those textual references are just as
likely to steer end users to a web site as is the domain name (in fact, what
little evidence we have suggests that more people use search engines to find
sites that the domain names).

Ron Fitzherbert wrote:

> In the discussions of the porsche "issue" we've seen that
> they think porschecar is bad -- what about mycarisaporsche, is that bad?
> If so, what about a domain name (with a porsche host name) like
> www.porsche.greatcars.com, is that bad, is www.porsche.suckycars.com
> worse?