[35391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Thu Mar 8 04:54:42 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:50:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Pim van Riezen <pi@vuurwerk.nl>
Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>,
"John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>,
Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Pim van Riezen 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?:)
SWIPO has been pretty good at taking everything else so far.
