[35361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pim van Riezen)
Wed Mar 7 16:24:48 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:18:04 +0100
From: Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>,
"John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>,
Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> > Parody and criticism are protected under trademark law(although those
> > rights are being eroded quickly.)
>
> No one has a sense of humor any more. A lot of folks have had
> <companyname>sucks.com taken away from them due to "trademark violations".
Which brings me to the interesting borderline case:
companyname.sucks.com
Can WIPO take away hostname records?:)
Pi
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