[3301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hostname Scam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (edfang@visi.net)
Tue Jul 2 16:59:56 1996
From: edfang@visi.net
To: Jonathan Kalbfeld <jkalbfel@WR.BBNPLANET.COM>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:41:52 +0000
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Actually, I would think that the $100.00 is not a major concern (~5K
for entire US domain). However it is taken by other companies.
However, I wonder about this 'enforcement' of an idea upon other
people's 'property' (loosely coined here). I just can't wait to here
of a suit about visit.netscape.com being an infringing trade/service
mark.
Ed
> > The postscript states an intention on the part of USA Internet
> > Gateway to register and enforce the hostname "visit" for any
> > <state>.com domain. Sounds absurd, but you never know what
> > will happen in the US legal system.
> >
> If, for any reason you are not interested in this offer, surely you
> understand our request that you not resolve a machine to serve pages on the
> "visit" machine name. None of you now has a machine named "visit" and any
> future use of that machine name IN A SIMILAR MANNER as USA Internet Gateway,
> Inc.'s would be deemed an intentional violation of our registered
> trademarks, servicemarks, and patent(s) which may be currently pending.
>
>
> Hmm. Actually, it seems like an excellent method for avoiding paying
> $100 for the registration of a domain with InterNIC. Could this be their
> motivation? ;-)
>
