In life you have to realize that things have a way of working themselves out, and they always do...when you interrupt that process through being nosy, snitching on others, or reporting tm names that someone might have invested alot of money into just days or weeks before (possibly hard earned money saved for a long period of time) you are in essence playing the judge & jury of whats right & wrong and you might not even know all the facts or contributing factors that are really necessary to make that determination. Maybe that person is counting on that tm typo to pay their rent and keep their head above water, maybe they have a newborn baby at home and recently were laid off from their job they faithfully worked at for 10 years hoping to get ahead only to eventually get shit on and realize they had just been spinning their wheels the whole time and living in a world of concepts & promises that rarely ever actually delivers. Maybe someone is putting food on the table with that extra ppc money or working to have a more generic and "acceptable" stream of income, it's widely known that most people who get to the top have to bend a few rules along the way to do it.
I am not saying it's right or wrong because it's not my place to do so. We are all brothers & sisters here, we all are doing the best we can to make it in life as wars rage around us and economical problems seem to increase by the day in our world. Maybe the company that the said domainer has typos of are scumbags and doing alot of unethical things to their customers or overcharging for services & products comparatively speaking. Maybe that said company pays child labor workers pennies overseas to make their shirts or designer clothes and in turn loses a few thousand a month to typosquatters from that same country in a twist on ironic justice..it's a big circle man and a very big can of worms. Things are the way they are because that's how they are meant to be, when you start trying to play the judge & the jury or GOD over other people just trying to make a living or trying to earn a dollar (esp. in these very hard times) you are starting your way down a very slippery slope that might end in some bad karma really taking a big bite out of your a**! There are ALOT of very effective remedies in place for all TM holders to recover their domain names and in over 90% of the wipo cases they, the tm holder/complaintant usually prevails. They pay lawyers money to do this and manage their online interests, computer analysts have jobs as a result to do research and collect information, marketing directors have to actually do their jobs and register product names prior to launches, assistants have to answer phones and send emails, and so on a so forth.
It's kind of like the war on drugs in the USA, because yes it's all "illegal" so to speak..but without it, tens of thousands of people would not get a paycheck or have a job & be able to provide for their families and our government would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in seized annual assets & money. Without the typo industry and ppc income revenue streams the domain market would not be what it is..people would not be spending the money they do at domain auctions online and off. Domain registrations would be just a fraction of what they are currently..it's like a food chain that keeps circulating and being re-invested back into it's self. You don't want to be the person who thinks they are being the "do gooder" when in fact you might actually cause alot more damage than you could even imagine. For all of you that did not get into domains until recently, let me remind you where this business evolved from..the simple rule of finders keepers. The age old rule of early bird gets the worm, first come..first served. TM laws evolved only AFTER companies neglected to properly manage their domains & online indentities to begin with, and some just got to the table later than others.
At one point in time if you owned CNN.com and you registered it before they did, they had to buy it from you. Why do you think certain people rushed to register valuable domain names back in the mid to late 90's? Speculation, investment, risk vs. reward, the American & the worldwide dream of making something out of nothing. This is all just my opinion..take it for what it's worth. I also believe if you have tm names & typos and you run into issues with the holder of the TM that you should hand the names over and press on with business, but in the meantime if you are making some extra cash and know the risks involved then more power to you because the search engines that we know & love and companies like microsoft that preach down to the masses about tm domains and cybersquatting are the biggest players of all in this arena and everyone is fighting for the market & the money. The said "big boys" already have all the token lawsuits, high price lawyers, corporate manuevers, & registrar & search engine loopholes & escape clauses to operate within and make the same click money me or you might make from the same typo. Why is it ok for them and not for us? Don't take away what little we have left of freedom to earn some easy money online. Let the chips fall where they may amongst us all and good luck to all domainers no matter what they do, that includes Google & Microsoft too. :hippie:
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