At 12:26 AM 3/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dan Steinberg wrote:
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>>More evidence of reverse domain name hijacking:
>>
>>http://www.internetnews.com/rumblings/0,1145,81,00.html
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>Cyberpiracy comes in two forms. One, which WIPO focuses on, has the
>trademark owner as the victim of the predatory behavior of unaffiliated and
>bad faith registrants.
In legal parlance, this is the "cybersquatter" at work, e.g. Toeppen.
>
>The other type, as in the example of HURRICANE.COM, reveals a legitimate
>domain name registrant as the victim of a trademark owner's poor business
>vision in waiting too long to recognize the market opportunities of the
>Internet.
And this is the "reverse domain name highjacking" against which I've been
cudgeling.
It's too bad the lawyers, seeking to put a little pizzaz into their wretched
briefs, gum up the works with such fancy, emotional phrases.
Now me, I don't do that. :-)
Bill Lovell
>
>Ellen Rony Co-author
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