A.M. Rutkowski wrote: > So the test is "the liklihood of consumer confusion," and there > is no issue with, for example, porsche.aol.com? If porsche.aol.com were used by AOL as a site to sell Porsches without proper authorization, perhaps. However, generally speaking, people don't register famous names within their organization's domain with the intent to market or otherwise "publicize" some other product, service, or good. It has occurred to me, however, that an organization might wish to enjoin some other organization from using a famous name associated with them within their domain if they felt they were losing traffic to the site with the famous name. For example, if for some reason, wheaties.ai.mit.edu starts getting hits from people who "thought" they were accessing the Wheaties cereal web site (www.wheaties.com), General Mills might ask them to cease using the name. I am not a lawyer, so I don't know whether a court would uphold this. (In a sense, this illustrates the same problem as typing "whitehouse" into a browser and being taken to whitehouse.com, when the user "thought" they were going to the White House site whitehouse.gov.) --gregbo
