[91390] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Mon Jul 24 15:35:56 2006
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:35:26 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>,
Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20060724184113.GC1217@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Someone's possesion of a domain name contining a string you have a
> trademark on *in one specific line of business* *does not constitute an
> infringement of your trademark*.
>
> Unless they *use it* *in conjunction with a product or service name*
> *in the appropriate line of business* *in a jurisdiction where you hold
> trademark rights*, they're not infringing you, and registering the
> string in 435 TLD's just to make sure they can't is the worst kind of
> stupid.
If I can borrow from Randy, I encourage my competitors (and more importantly
the competitors of my clients) to operate in the manner you describe.
Doug
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If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough
