Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>]

On Jan 7, 16:46, Albert Tramposch wrote:

> >And what does "united" mean to someone from Turkey?
> 
> "United" means a lot to someone in Turkey if they want to book a flight to L.A.
> using United Airline's home page.  This is the point of the Internet:  it is
> making commerce global in a big way.

"United" is not a coined word, and has no chance of making it as a trademark
anywhere in the world. United Airlines should use "united-airlines.com".
In the same way, the brewery "United Distillers" should use "united-distillers.com",
etc. etc. Just having "united.com" is a clueless use of the Net.

Later on you mention "Pepsi". Pepsi is really "Pepsi-Cola" and the company
is "Pepsico", a coined word. -> pepsi-cola.com or pepsico.com

Same for Coca Cola.

You comments about "Pontiac" (a coined word) stand, and I agree with them.

Olivier
(in United Kingdom - why not united.com ?) :-)