.co Cybersquatting Showcase - Who Will Get Sued First?

[Seraphim]

I was just digging through the Whois.co database, and was trying to guess which .co registrants will end up getting sued first. I thought this little mental exercise would be funner to play out here at good old DNForum.

Don't be afraid to liberally list potential .co lawsuit candidates, I mean after all, these are the assholes that make legitimate domain speculating harder for everyone.

My guess:

Metallica.co

Metallica's legal team has gone after file swappers directly, and has a reputation for being as fierce as Microsoft when it comes to protecting their brand, and punishing those that infringe upon it.

 

[Theo]

What about Anthrax.net owned by Frank Schilling?

 

[Seraphim]

How about newyorktimes.co? wwwbing.co? wwwmsn.co? namedia.co?

 

[Bill Roy]

How about 'who gives a damn'!

If people register names that invite trouble then it is their business and the business of possible trade mark holders, etc..

Obviously some people have a little too much time on their hands. Next we will get a thread blaming Obama somehow!

 

[Seraphim]

How about 'who gives a damn'!

If people register names that invite trouble then it is their business and the business of possible trade mark holders, etc..

Obviously some people have a little too much time on their hands. Next we will get a thread blaming Obama somehow!

I've spent less than one minute in this thread, all while uploading new content to a website that I'm working on. How long did it take you to register those domains in your signature Billbo? Just in this for shits and giggles, eh?

 

[Biggie]

How about 'who gives a damn'!

If people register names that invite trouble then it is their business and the business of possible trade mark holders, etc..

Obviously some people have a little too much time on their hands. Next we will get a thread blaming Obama somehow!

I've spent less than one minute in this thread, all while uploading new content to a website that I'm working on. How long did it take you to register those domains in your signature Billbo? Just in this for shits and giggles, eh?

Seraphim

no offense but i kinda feel what BillBo is saying


it's gonna happen (typo and tm registrations) with every new tld or gtld and even cctld's


some will get away with them and never get a C&D, some aren't worth the corp's time and effort to bother with and some may get wipo'd


i believe many of these regs will expire next year anyway, especially if there's no traffic


imo...

 

[Focus]

Seriously, this is a great case of mind your own business and let it be, let it be, let it be.

 

[Seraphim]

Not really, it's more of case of me pissing on the .co artistic interpretation / cybersquatter parade, and wasting roughly 1 minute of my day. Why, because it's a traffic shaving endeavor aimed squarely at .com, and I find it mildly annoying, as I would any other thinly veiled parasitic enterprise. Do I care what anyone else registers with their money, of course not, that would be silly.

 

[Dotted]

Why don't you get a life instead or look for the millions of infringements on .com domains?

What is it? You didn't get any successful backorders with Daddy? Well blame that shitty registrar not the extension.

 

[Seraphim]

What is it? You didn't get any successful backorders with Daddy? Well blame that shitty registrar not the extension.

Don't be a dumbass, I didn't order any in the first place. I would rather own Developed.mobi than Developed.co, at least the former won't hemorrhage traffic to the .com, and cause my visitors to think I'm located in Colombia. :lol:

"It's a gTLD, not a ccTLD!" Hahahahaha! That's not what Google, Yahoo, Bing, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, Ford, BMW, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook, and every other top tier brand will be saying! Can't wait to revisit this thread when their Colombia portals are all going live, and the global general public are lining up behind them like ducks in a row. Around that same time I'm likely to see you in here chasing the next pot of gold under the rainbow, that is of course assuming you're still domaining at that point.

 

[Dotted]

Looking at your post history you seem to be a troll so I am going to stop it here, if I have learned something it is to not feed the trolls and not bashing other extensions than almighty .com because I am too american-centric.

 

[Seraphim]

Looking at your post history you seem to be a troll so I am going to stop it here, if I have learned something it is to not feed the trolls and not bashing other extensions than almighty .com because I am too american-centric.

Yes of course, I'm a troll because I don't subscribe to your .co artistic interpretation bullshit.

 

[Dotted]

No you're troll because all you seem to be doing on this forum is talking shit.

 

[Seraphim]

No you're troll because all you seem to be doing on this forum is talking shit.

Dude, you're in a thread talking shit to a guy you're accusing of talking shit. Go fluff .co some more, but do tone down the enthusiasm, I'd hate to see you start a friction fire.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

How about newyorktimes.co? wwwbing.co? wwwmsn.co? namedia.co?

Obviously a waste of $28/year registration.

 

[BGray]

Well I'm sure we'll find out soon. No doubt the wheels are in motion.

 

[Focus]

Sue for what? Some kid who registered brandxyz.co a COUNTRY CODE domain? I think the worst we are going to see is C&D letters to these names.

 

[Theo]

Sue for what? Some kid who registered brandxyz.co a COUNTRY CODE domain? I think the worst we are going to see is C&D letters to these names.

Amazon Inc vs. Amazon.gr comes to mind (they were not bright enough and set up a bookstore).

 

[Focus]

I think the majority of the companies out there either saw it fit to secure their .co domain clone or simply do not give a sh*t. If they did not want to spend a few bucks registering it during the trademark periods I sincerely doubt they want to spend thousands of dollars on legal fees to get it. Sure there will be a few ruffled feathers and late comers that do the "oh shit we have to get that domain now" but I think 99.9% of the .co owners are pretty safe. That being said, I only registered one and it is 100% generic. They are all banned from the yahoo parking feeds anyways so why bother?

 

[Seraphim]

As Rick Schwartz often states, most companies out there still don't get it when it comes to domains, and I tend to agree with those sentiments [they'll be slow to move on .co abuse]. It's purely speculative at this point, but I think we'll see some heavy and sustained legal action within the .co name-space, especially if a wide pattern of PPC parking sustainability and brand jacking becomes apparent, the later of which seems guaranteed judging by the volume of abusive registrations that I've already seen. Even little ole Poland has seen quite a bit of legal wrangling over international brand jacking by way of .pl, and you know .co is going to attract way more legal attention due to the traffic mistypes and visitor confusion potential.

If .co ever becomes a "dirty" or stigma laden extension, which is fairly likely I think in the long term, then the Colombian citizens can thank the wonderful folks at the .co registry for encouraging a blurring of the .co - .com lines, knowing damn well that their heavily promoted "company" or "cooperation" gTLD dream would / will never stick. Look at .ru , which would be one example of a somewhat dirty, stigma laden extension [due to spyware, trojans, hacking, etc.], at least here in the west. That has certainly damaged the ability of information flow between Russian information providers and a non-Russian audience to a greater or lesser degree. I'm a capitalist at heart, I'm all about making money, but I would prefer to see profit come by way of a stable and ethical platform, as opposed to a short term burn all bridges you cross strategy, aka what I believe the .co registry is already guilty of.

But like I said, I'm not invested in .co, I don't really care either way, but I felt like tossing in my 2 cents [I've got a couple minutes to burn this week].