RE: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[David Rosenthal <rosenthal@insider.ch>]

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>From: 	Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl@oppedahl.com]
>Sent: 	Mittwoch, 25. Dezember 1996 16:43
>To: 	David Rosenthal
>Cc: 	'iahc-discuss@iahc.org'
>Subject: 	RE: Thread 2: 60-day issue
>
>
>>>
>>>But please, please, think about this.  If some trademark owner decides
>>>it
>>>cares enough about its trademark to obsessively study the lists of
>>>domain
>>>names that are in their 60-day periods ... why doesn't that trademark
>>>owner
>>>simply register the domain name?  The very fact that it did not bother
>>>to
>>>register it stands for something.
>>
>>Maybe it did register, but the registration is still beeing processed by
>>the provider of that trademark owner or so. We had at least one such
>>case here in Switzerland. Maybe a colleague of the trademark owner
>>happened to spot the domain-name on the list, remembered about his
>>colleague and called him up. Another reason could be that someone is
>>planning to introduce a new product under a really good name for which
>>it paid a big amount of money (name research, consultants, ad
>>preparation etc.) but did not yet start using (or registering) it in
>>order not to tip off the competitors. 
>
>Yes, in all of these cases it is possible to imagine that a trademark
>owner
>might not yet have registered its pet domain name, and might actually
>choose to act during the 60-day period.  But I suggest this is still
>preferable to the present-day situation in COM in which NSI will gladly
>destroy (or threaten to destroy) some domain name owner's business for
>no
>better reason than some trademark owner covets the domain name having
>failed to register it two or three years earlier.

Of course. But there are better solutions and even more better
solutions. <g>
>
>Keep in mind that the "colleague of the trademark owner" is also likely
>to
>suggest to the trademark owner that it should think about signing up
>for a
>domain name rather than sleeping until some later year and only then
>thinking of signing up for a domain name.

I agree. Some people simply have to learn about the Internet the hard
way. And that's their problem, not mine and not ours.

David