RE: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 04:46 PM 12/25/96 +0100, David Rosenthal wrote:

>>From: 	Carl Oppedahl[SMTP:carl@oppedahl.com]

>>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.

I wish you were right.  But the courts around NSI are filled with cases in
which the failure of a trademark owner to learn about the Internet is
indeed our problem, and mine and yours, for the simple reason that NSI
encourages the trademark owner to try to grab the domain name now, after
someone else has been using it for many years.  NSI will quite cheerfully
cut off a domain name even if someone has been quietly using it and
infringing no one's rights for many years, for no better reason than that a
covetous trademark owner asks them to.