[12321] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Name Reg. Time for Policy Change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Mon May 16 04:19:51 1994
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 11:24:56 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 4:03 PM 5/14/94 -0700, Joseph W. Stroup wrote:
>The MTV situation was in the paper today (wire service story) ...
The story I read mentioned that one of those college exam preparation firms
(Princeton Review) has registered the domain "kaplan.com" -- note that
"Kaplan" is the name of their major competitor.
How would people view an address such as sun.com or microsoft.com or
intel.com or apple.com ??? As a part of the named company.
That's the basic concept of a trademark infringement. Why is this any
different? Because Adam registered the name with internic personally? I
could just as easily register one as nbc.com or showetime.com or
nickelodeon.com or macys.com or sears.com ... none of that gives me
the right to infringe a trademark (if any), but what is worse is that
people might think those domains ARE associated with the company, and that
could cause irreprible harm to those companies.
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Glenn Tenney
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