[16759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon May 11 16:24:38 1998
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:06:27 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805111828.LAA10594@asha.Eng.Sun.COM>; from Amit Gupta <ag@asha.Eng.Sun.COM> on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:28:11AM -0700
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:28:11AM -0700, Amit Gupta wrote:
> Any trademark protection ("webmarks?") available to the folks who run
> these popular sites?
There isn't any reason why you couldn't register a domain name as a
trademark. Whether a purposeful misspelling like that would support a
dilution or false light action is another matter entirely.
Cheers,
-- jra
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