[35434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Thu Mar 8 19:23:05 2001
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
Date: 08 Mar 2001 18:50:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of "Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:37:20 -0800"
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> > Personally, I would hope that the rules would be the same as if you were
> > trying to start a new business or magazine with the name in the domain
> > name (I am making no judgement on how close UDRP is to that ideal). By
> > that criteria, I am sure that if you tried to start a company or magazine
> > named "Walmart Sucks" you would hear from their lawyers and they would be
> > equally successful.
>
> Surely owning a domain is more like naming a book or magazine article
> than naming a business. After all, businesses are not the only Internet
> sites.
I agree. In fact, during the heydey of "Beverly Hills 90210", I
remember a monthly newsletter called "The I Hate Brenda Newsletter" or
some such thing, which was a parody fanzine for Shannon Doherty, the
actress who played Brenda. It was a quite funny piece of pop-culture
parody, and I'm sure the magazine would have been shut down if
copyright law allowed Fox Networks to.
-----ScottG.
