Re: Thread 2: 60-day issue

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Carl Oppedahl allegedly said:
[...]
> 
> Under the IAHC proposal, a covetous trademark owner that reacts within the
> 60-day period will have to try to find a court that feels it necessary to
> order a transfer of the domain name.
> 
> 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.

Good point.  And it undercuts the value of the 60 day waiting period 
even further -- how are you going to convince a judge 4 years from 
now that some company that had *no* internet involvement up to then 
should have been looking at lists of domain names for possible 
trademark infringement?

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