>If "Transarc" is a trademark or is copyrighted, IBM still owns the domain.
>There is a procedure to rectify this. >tedc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Hutzelman Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:40 PM To: ed; Chris Crowther Cc: [email protected]; Jeffrey Hutzelman Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] transarc.com On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 05:36:24 PM +0100 ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:18:38 +0100 > Chris Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Probably because Transarc doesn't exist anymore. Even the >> sub-domain >> for transarc under ibm.com is gone. It's formally IBM Pittsburgh >> Labs, as far as I know. > > Isn't a domain name classed as assets though? This question is so vaguely phrased as to be meaningless, but... Domain names are not property and cannot be owned. > The domain itself hasn't yet expired since 1989, I guess they must > have sold it rather than let it expire, or the registrar sold it prior > to expiry. I'm not sure how you get "hasn't expired since 1989". The record was _created_ in 1989; that doesn't mean it hasn't ever been expired in the time since then. However, the system currently in place allows for a registrar to reassign a name with essentially no grace period, once it expires. Had I known IBM was uninterested in maintaining the transarc.com domain and making it point someplace useful, I would have done something about it. I doubt they resold it directly, based on the hoops we had to go through a few years ago to get central.org transferred. -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
