[35363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Wed Mar 7 16:52:20 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:48:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:04:17PM -0500, 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".
Among the many domains registered to "Bell Atlantic Trademark Services
LLC":
VERIZONSUCKS.COM
VERIZONBLOWS.COM
VERIZONBITES.COM
VERIZONSHITS.COM
VERIZONWIRELESSSUCKS.COM
VERIZONWIRELESSBLOWS.COM
VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.COM
VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.NET
VERIZON-TELEKOM.ORG
etc etc etc...
You could almost make a case that they're preventing people from making
criticisms, but given Verizon's level of performance its entirely possible
these are domains for a soon-to-be-launched new product line.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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