Originally posted by mole
hmmmmm... obviously you guys have NEVER experienced Reserve Cyberjacking...
http://www.nissan.com
That's why lawyers like John and Howard and Ari are here.
TM laws applies only to a specific CLASS of good/services, not to the whole goddamn WORLD, and especially not to the Internet DNS which spans the globe.
Why can't I register ebaydogs.com for my own business in Timbuktu as a dog training school? Why can't I register Lamborghinidogs.org for a retreat for sick dogs?
REVERSE CYBERJACKING is a rampant crime committed by big organisations who think they own everything related to, example, Bay, and have the thugs and black money to intimidate those cowards with small balls, arse-licking and no guts to call their own. Like a big towering bully taking candy from a kid....
My humble advise is please learn about TM law on the internet before you make tunnel thinking deductions of addressing righteousness on the internet. You however maintain your right to look really KKK and Nazism to the rest of us here in this forum.
If you need further enlightenment, please visit
http://www.wipo.org.uk and look for Garry Anderson.
Sure, it feels good to feel you are right. So thought Adolf Hitler.
Hey Mole
Good information there again from you. I continue to be impressed. I agree with some of the arguments made by the site above, but it's more geared toward this guys campaign to get the sub ".reg" approved for trademarks on the Net than anything else. Might be a good idea, but that would take a lot more study.
In regards to your example above, I see NO reason why you couldn't reg "ebaydogs" in Timbuktu if you have a dog business there and I believe you would be successful in a arguing your case at WIPO if Ebay tried to challenge you. That's because you regged and are using the name "in good faith".
Now if you also trademark that name in Timbuktu, spend a ton of money and effort to make your trademark famous and someone regs ebaydogstimbuktu "in bad faith" to try and steal some of your traffic to offer his dog products. You might feel that you should have some rights to protect yourself. After all, isn't that what the trademark is for in the first place?
What we are complaining about on this thread is the blantant disregard by some posters, for the property rights of others. Their obvious actions of "bad faith" give the rest of us (that are trying to work in this area in an honest way), a bad rap or rep.
When cybersquatters or typosquatters reg a variation of a famous trademark with the intention of profitting by the confusion and mis-direction of the public, that bastardizes the Internet and reduces the distinct value of domains in general.
In other words they don't care if the value of all our domains go down if they can make a buck on a ppc, and could give a damn if they are profitting by leading the public to someplace they didn't want to go.
Then they have the gall to attempt to sell those "bad faith" regs to others (here) based on the value of that mis-directed traffic, and without concern for the risk to the new buyer (our fellow members) of possible civil penalty.
That's not ok.
By the by, I am also just as strongly opposed to reverse domain highjacking as you mentioned above, but accusing (whoever you did) of KKK involvement or Nazism is going overboard.
Doc